Aug 08
Chef Pongtawat Chalermkittichai, better known as Ian Kittichai, was considered to be Thailand’s first celebrity chef and is a global ambassador for Thai cuisine, with restaurants in Bangkok, Mumbai, Barcelona, and New York City (co-owned with Chef Todd English) and a weekly television cooking show Chef Mue Thong, which has been broadcast since 2001 in 70 …
Mar 04
Aimed at helping travellers staying in holiday rentals and settling into a place for a while, Price Check is a series of posts in which we reported every two weeks on the prices of groceries (no, not only beer) at each destination we stayed on our yearlong grand tour. This post is a comparison of …
Aug 08
At the end of two weeks of eating in New York City we still felt like we’d missed something. We’d had the gamut of food experiences, at all quality and price levels, from gastro-pubs to gastronomic fine-diners, hot dogs to hamburgers, from ‘ethnic’ to American, but we still didn’t quite ‘get’ New York food. And …
Aug 06
This is the second part of our ‘what we ate in NYC’ series; see Part 1 here. We did try to keep it local-ish. Did we make mistakes? Yep. Did we get bad advice? Yep. Who do we trust? No-one, unfortunately. I think it’s clear which spots we recommend – and of course we ate …
Aug 06
On the long flight to New York City from Tokyo, I drifted through an episode of Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations while lying comfortably horizontal in Cathay Pacific’s brilliant business class ‘coffin’. Lamenting his middle age (the former whippet-thin, ex-junkie chef Bourdain has put on a few pounds) and lack of knowledge of New York’s boroughs …
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