No fancy reviews. I’m off on a two week holiday – a week in NYC, a few days in Louisville, and a couple in Atlanta. Just picking out “best or most interesting things I ate”…. Let’s start with the first two days… yes, all this in two days (we did a bit of an “appetizer… Read More Back to the Big Apple #1
Food, glorious food…. Not everywhere we ate, as not everything and every place is worth talking about. Rota do Acarajé, R. Martim Francisco, 529 [w3w: quit.boggles.liquids] – Way back in December 2008 and January 2009, I took a series of classes from a Brazilian chef who had a restaurant in Buenos Aires, to learn the… Read More São Paulo, Round 2 – Food!
It was a last minute decision – getting away for a long weekend before Henry starts his profesorado program at the university. We decided to return to Brazil for Carnival. Being last minute, however, options were limited – it’s a popular tourism destination and time to visit. Our first choice, Rio de Janeiro, was immediately out of the… Read More São Paulo, Round 2 – Carnival
Last day in São Paulo and let’s change things up a bit…. A visit to the Museu Afro-Brasil in Parque Ibirapuera, for about two hours of wandering through and seeing some of the history of the African descendant community of Brazil, from the days of Portuguese slave trade to modern day. Well worth a visit! And… Read More Mini-Break in St. Paul, Day 3
I had all these ideas of heading to the restaurants in São Paulo that keep getting written up in international circles, I mean, best of and all that. But Henry, rightly, pointed out that we’ve spent no time in Brazil, and basically have no real sense of the traditional local food. Why go eat the… Read More Mini-Break in St. Paul, Day 2
São Paulo is, apparently, the largest city not only in Brazil, but also in both the Western and Southern hemispheres. It doesn’t feel that way, it’s not particularly crowded, though traffic is a nightmare, and it doesn’t even seem that big. Mexico City feels bigger and more crowded, but the numbers don’t lie, and CDMX… Read More Mini-Break in St. Paul, Day 1
Let’s continue (like it or not) on yesterday’s post… moving on to the places that came in in the actual top 50 spots on this year’s list. Two that I’m not going to expound on – Le Bernardin at #26 and Eleven Madison Park at #4 – as it’s been 20 years since I’ve been to either… Read More The 2018 List – Part 2
It’s that time of year again, the annual, over-hyped, San Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurants awards. You know, the 50 best list with 100 on the list. You’d think by now they’d just change it and either not offer a listing of #51-#100, or change the name to 100 Best…. I always get asked my… Read More The 2018 List – Part 1