Restaurants, bistros, brasseries, trattorias, cafes, and street stalls we eat at during the trip.
Eating out in Mexico City is truly a delight. You can have a tasty meal of a few tacos for less than a dollar or you can pay two hundred times that amount for a seven-course gastronomic feast at Pujol that is easily as sublime as any meal you’d find in some of the world’s … Read more
The number of taco places in Austin is mind blowing – from white tablecloth restaurants to humble roadside stands, from dawn to the dead of night, you’ll find tacos on a menu or a blackboard somewhere in this Texas town. Everyone in Austin has advice on tacos, so in order to narrow down the field … Read more
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. Dining in New York City and making the right choices isn’t easy. I think it’s … 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’. Lamenting his middle age (the former whippet-thin, ex-junkie chef Anthony Bourdain has put on a few pounds) and lack of knowledge of New York’s … Read more
The artistic, cultural and spiritual heart of Bali for centuries, Ubud is serenely located up in the hills in lush jungle, surrounded by rice-paddies. Lined with galleries, cafés and craft shops, its narrow streets are a delight to wander. There’s no denying that Ubud has become increasingly commercial and its economy is more tourist-focused than ever. … Read more