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, 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 don’t get us wrong. We had … Read more
Dining out in New York City this trip was a disappointing experience. This is the second part of our ‘New York City – What We Ate and Where We Ate It‘ series. We tried hard to keep our eating local-ish, which is one of the goals of our yearlong global grand tour, to stick to … Read more
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’. Little did we know at the time, but those hours absorbed in the New York chef’s culinary adventures would set us off on an … Read more
New York’s speakeasies were hiding away some of the best cocktails in New York City, we’d been told. We also kept hearing that PDT (Please Don’t Tell) was one of the best cocktail bars in the East Village. So one evening, as we were walking right by the address where PTD was meant to be, … Read more
We may have decided not to use guidebooks as part of our local travel experiment, but we’re certainly not discarding the map, which, as far as we’re concerned, is often all you ever need to explore a city. Well a guide ‘Not for Tourists’, was one guide with great mapping, but also one that helped … Read more