Living la dolce vita at Asbury Park’s Porta
Doors are to be opened – and the best ones offer a subconscious welcome. The word in Italian is “porta,” which is the name of one of Asbury Park’s most reliable and innovative restaurants. There are doors all over Porta, leaning outside the iconic blue…
Red Hot Romance at Stockholm’s Brasserie le Rouge
Just because New Nordic cuisine has conquered the world doesn’t mean that you want to eat Scandinavian food every night – and particularly if you live in Stockholm. Some nights in Sweden you want to be transported to the Left Bank in Paris;…
Ze Best of France at Stockholm’s Zink Grill
Eponymously named for the zinc and marble bar that is the restaurant’s focal point, Zink Grill‘s origins are the result of a serendipitous wander into a warehouse outside Paris that was filled with French restaurant curios and artifacts. With…
Vancouver’s Best Curbside Cuisine
Yes, Vancouver is Hollywood-gorgeous – a postcard-perfect setting of snow-capped mountains and emerald forests overlaid with a scrim of misty ocean blue – but it’s also delicious, thanks in no small part to the city’s renascent…
Seattle by Sea: AQUA by El Gaucho
Most residents of Seattle are in no hurry to see another volcanic eruption, that is, unless it’s the Emerald City Volcano, a flamboyant flaming dessert that is served tableside after sunset at AQUA by El Gaucho. Back in the Fifties, Seattle’s…
A Culinary Journey Across the Fairmont Pacific Rim
If you wander into the Lobby Lounge of Vancouver’s Fairmont Pacific Rim on any evening, it’s quite likely that you’ll feel as if you’ve entered into a high-spirited atmosphere of Gatsbyesque proportions, with sylphlike women and…
Beer and Brats at Seattle’s Von Trapp’s
The coat of arms above the door to Von Trapp’s Restaurant features two rearing horned stags along with the motto Brats Biergarten Bocce. Bocce? The Italian version of “boules” in a German beer garden? Why not, this in Seattle. Located…
A Cornucopia of Tapas at Manhattan’s Casa Pomona
Given the unforeseen obstacles overcome on their way to opening Casa Pomona on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, restaurateurs Sid Gupta and Marion Maur might have felt they’d opened a Pandora’s box rather than a restaurant named for the…