Ruby Reds and Crisp Whites: Graffigna Wines for the Spring Season
Now that the winter of 2012 has departed (tail between its legs at its pathetic performance) and people are emerging from hibernation, it’s time to think about entertaining again: dinner parties for six, a candlelight romantic rendezvous, and…
Great Danes: Copenhagen’s Gastronomic Renaissance
It’s completely understandable that Denmark has long held a fascination for so many gay people. After all, it was Denmark that gave us modern home design. (Where would “Mad Men” be without Danish contemporary furniture? And, really, could any…
Den Gule Cottage: Copenhagen, Denmark
After a morning spent at the Ordrupgaard Art Museum, you might think about stopping in Klampenborg for lunch at “The Yellow Cottage.” The idyllic cottage with its roof clock sits on a hillock overlooking Bellevue Beach (with its Arne…
Bright Lights, Big City: “Tokyo Taxi”
As anyone who’s visited Tokyo knows, the city is a nocturnal wonderland of neon and color, a kaleidoscopic realization of “The Future: Now Playing.” With a citizenry as colorful and animated as the signage, Tokyo at night is a photographer’s…
Aamanns Etablissement, Copenhagen
One of the meals most likely to provoke sighs of “hygge” from the Danes is the traditional “smørrebrød.” These open-faced sandwiches, borne of farmers and workers, are an integral part of Danish culinary traditions, complete with…
Geist: Copenhagen, Denmark
There are some meals that you are certain you will never forget – and, from now on, the mere mention of the word “celeriac” will transport me back to Chef Bo Bech’s restaurant Geist. Another of the New Nordic culinary wizards, Bech was…
Copenhagen’s Kødbyens Fiskebar
Not so long ago, Vesterbro in Copenhagen was the center of the city’s sex industry, as well as the neighborhood with more butchers per square kilometer than anywhere else in Europe. In other words, meat and more meat – and now, even more meat,…
Kiin Kiin: Copenhagen, Denmark
There’s only one Michelin-starred Thai restaurant in all of Scandinavia – and that’s Chef Henrik Yde-Andersen’s Kiin Kiin. Opened in September 2006 in Norrebro, which was, at that time, a neighborhood where few tourists ventured, Andersen’s…