Chiang Mai Thai Cooking Class
As Paris forces us to reach once again for boots, jackets, and scarves rather than the flats and skirts I was pulling out a week ago, my mind drifts back to Thailand. Sunny, warm, Thailand.It drifts forward as well, to weekend trips I want to start taking as of tomorrow, to seek after the sun […]
Don’t Miss These 5 Paris Brunch Spots
Finding a good brunch in Paris is a bit like a treasure hunt. You need a map and a ghost pirate telling you where to go if you want to find gold. Acting as resident mythical pirate, I highly recommend these six Paris brunch spots if ye seek brunching treasure. Some new, some old, one […]
Martin Boire et Manger: A Summer Staple
I recently mentioned 6 new restaurants that were spawned from other great restaurants, and Martin Boire et Manger is one of them. When I found out that Au Passage (a hands down favorite), had a new wine bar over by Filles du Calvaire, I knew I’d have to drop all my dining plans and make […]
6 of Paris’s Best Restaurants are Procreating
The Best New Restaurants in Paris The best restaurants in Paris are all spawning new life. Several new exciting restaurants & wine bars have cropped up in the past few months, and many of these hot spots are the offspring of already existing popular restaurants. Most have arrived within the past month, with the oldest […]
Eiffel Tower views
The Eiffel Tower. Such a big part of my life. Don’t know if I’ve ever mentioned it, but I manage a company that does skip-the-line tours of the Eiffel Tower. As such, she takes up quite a bit of my time and energy. Not only that, but I’m entering my 5th year of living in […]
Le Perchoir’s Rooftop Pop-Up: Les Endimanchés
If you had the chance to spend your Sunday on the sunny rooftop of Le Perchoir, looking over Paris rooftops, would you turn it down? What if you were drinking a refreshing natural (organic even) Pouilly Fumé, having a laugh with friends, and asking yourselves where the glorious sun has been for the past 7 […]
Le Fooding & Authentic Pizza in Paris
Priceless Soupers, Round 2! The first episode of Priceless Soupers kicked off last month with a wild cooking-in-a-hotel-room-with-strangers dinner that ended, as it should have, in a pillow fight. And red wine all over the duvet in one of the other rooms (eek) whlie the chef cooked in a bathrobe and used a hair dryer […]
The Best Pad Kee Mao in Bangkok
Pad Kee Mao, aka Drunken Noodles If you were to do any kind of search for the best Pad Kee Mao in Bangkok, you would very quickly come across this lady at Raan Jay Fai. The stovetops appear to be buckets coated in tar, and that gives this lady serious street cred.
Ellsworth, Verjus’ new little brother
The owners of Verjus and Verjus Wine Bar have a new baby, Ellsworth, with small plates to share and a kill-me-now (in the best way) Sunday brunch. I went on the official opening night a couple weeks ago and returned last Sunday for brunch. I can now say with confidence that it is well worth […]
When chefs trade their kitchens for hotel rooms, bathrobes & hair dryers
What can I say about the Priceless Soupers dinner at the Grand Pigalle Hotel? We started as strangers, civilly deciding that we could switch from the formal “vous” to informal “tu” at our dinner table over basic get-to-know-you questions. And then, the night unfolded.