Summer Thirst Quenchers
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It’s summer in Boston and it is hot! Kick back with your summer drink of choice. Here are some tasty ones to try:
A light and refreshing Watermelon Fizz is just $6 during the month of July at the very chic Japanese eatery Haru in the Prudential Center (55 Huntington Ave., Boston)(Map). One word: delicious.
Savor a summer’s early evening with a dreamy Bellini. Restaurant Dante (40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge)(Map) Bellini Bar on Friday and Saturday evenings from 5 PM- 7PM features...
July 3rd, 2010 | Maria Olia | Read More | Comments: 2Filed under: drinks, featuredarticle, Food & Beverage
Bar Uriarte… A Concept Place.
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There is possibly no better place that represents Palermo Soho’s (Palermo Viejo) dining revolution than Bar Uriarte (map), located a couple of blocks from Plaza Serrano (map).
This place is totally the opposite of Club Eros. Despite its name, Bar Uriate is a multi purpose business. It has a fancy long long long bar, two intimate dining spaces and lounge areas where you can lie down on the sofas and chat with friends. You can even take your meal while lounging on a sofa, or you can opt to...
June 29th, 2010 | Pablo Juan Augustinowicz | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Food & Beverage, Restaurants & Bars
Club Eros… From the Barrio with Love.
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In a previous article about cafés and bars, I explained somehow what the philosophy of going to these places is all about, and gave a list of establishments you may like to check out. One of these places is the Club Eros, located in the heart of the barrio de Palermo.
Club Eros is one of those places that has stayed authentic throughout the years. It is a social club where you can see families with their kids playing fútbol and folks playing cards. People who are older than 30 years old will...
June 27th, 2010 | Pablo Juan Augustinowicz | Read More | Comments: 1Filed under: Food & Beverage, Restaurants & Bars
Buenos Aires Neighbourhoods: Belgrano
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Why is it that tourists are so lazy about getting outside the downtown area? I mean, Buenos Aires is everything, not just La Boca or San Telmo or Recoleta or Palermo. Well, I know the barrio de Belgrano is not the most touristic area, but there is something about this neighbourhood that always gets me. Anyway, here’s a very picturesque neighbourhood which I am pretty sure you will like. Actually it is one of my favourites. So, to get to know it you have to walk it.
Barrio de Belgrano is an upper-middle...
June 23rd, 2010 | Pablo Juan Augustinowicz | Read More | Comments: 3Filed under: Food & Beverage, neighbourhoods, Shopping, top-feature, Tours
Tea & Garden Tour at Green Springs Garden
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Enjoy a docent-led tour of the historical gardens at Green Spring Gardens & Manor, one of DC’s preeminent places for horticulture located in Alexandria, Virginia, followed by afternoon tea service.
The house dates back to 1784 when farmer and land owner John Moss built Green Spring, the brick home on his 540 acre farm in Alexandria, Virginia. What were once tobacco fields were turned into farmlands that produced wheat, corn, oats and rye, plus livestock. Three generations of Moss’s lived...
May 31st, 2010 | Jon Rochetti | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Events, featuredarticle, Food & Beverage, gardens, tea, Tours
Emack and Bolio’s: A Taste of Boston in NYC
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This place started back in 1975 amidst Boston’s hard rockin’ scene. Now NYC is lucky enough to have a couple of its own. Originally a place for musicians and folks on the edge to visit after the bars closed, some of the flavors are now named after rock star regulars like the Twisted Dee-Light after Dee Snider of Twisted Sister and Deep Purple Cow, black raspberry ice cream with white and dark chocolate chips and blueberries after…well I’ll let you guess who.
Emack and Bolio's Heavenly...
May 24th, 2010 | Steve Mirsky | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: best ice cream, Food & Beverage
Haru Sushi, Boston
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The very model of the modern urban sushi restaurant, Haru Sushi, the Boston outpost of the New York City- based chain, manages to craft both quality sushi standards and interesting designer rolls.
The lobster mango ceviche ($16) appetizer is an elegant presentation and a novel way to try one of New England’s favorite local ingredients. Haru Sushi also an excellent variety of traditional sushi with melt-in-your -mouth maki and tender, just-right thick slices of sashimi. Sushi entree combination...
May 23rd, 2010 | Maria Olia | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: featuredarticle, Food & Beverage, Restaurants & Bars
The Scooper Bowl: Boston’s All You Can Eat Ice Cream Festival
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Indulge in as much of your favorite cold, creamy treats as you like at the 28th annual Scooper Bowl which will be held at Boston’s City Plaza (Map) on Tuesday, June 8-Thursday, June 10, 2010. There will be more than 30 flavors of ice cream, sorbet, gelato and frozen yogurt available to sample from some of the nation’s best ice cream makers . This year’s line-up includes Boston Cream Pie from Ben & Jerry’s, Blood Orange Sorbet from Ciao Bella Gelato, and Superfudge Truffle...
May 22nd, 2010 | Maria Olia | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Announcements, festival, Food & Beverage
A Dozen Meals For $10 or Under
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Unless you have an unlimited travel budget, you will find that including a few cheap eats in your Boston travel plans can really help stretch your vacation dollars. In most cases, each of these best buys gives you several delicious meal options for under $10 .
Boston isn’t a hot dog town like Chicago, but Boston Speed Dog (42 Newmarket Square, Boston, 617-839-0102)(Map) comes pretty darn close. Boston’s best hot dogs cost just $7.
Dinner for less than $5? Many a college student...
May 21st, 2010 | Maria Olia | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: featuredarticle, Food & Beverage, Restaurants & Bars
Bairro Alto Hotel celebrates its 5th anniversary
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The first contemporary boutique Hotel in Lisbon will be celebrating its 5th anniversary with five senses.
Bairro Alto Hotel stands right in the heart of the old part of town, at Praça Luís de Camões (map). This is one of the most vibrant parts of town with great shopping, restaurants and nightlife. This 5 star hotel includes 51 bedrooms and 4 suites with all the comfort you may expect – LCD television, DVD player, WiFi interent connection and so on. This is a serious spoiling place that made...
May 19th, 2010 | Alexandre Kühl Oliveira | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Food & Beverage, Hotels & Places to Stay, special offers
Haitian Culinary Culture at Krik Krak
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I hope I’m wrong but it seems like the glaring spotlight on Haiti’s epic earthquake aftermath is flickering out and has all but given way to the usual celebrity news cycle and crisis-of-the-moment coverage like the Gulf oil spill. I see startling parallels between Haiti and New Orleans as well. Both were permanently altered by natural disaster exposing longstanding inequities bubbling just under the surface. Both are also culinary hotbeds. Here in NYC, you can do your part by keeping...
May 15th, 2010 | Steve Mirsky | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: featuredarticle, Food & Beverage, Restaurants & Bars
The Blue Room’s Celebrated Weekly Sunday Brunch
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Off the tourist trail, but an easy detour, the Blue Room is an all-time favorite among Cantabrigians- residents of Boston’s neighboring city of Cambridge across the Charles River. It’s a subterranean space-comfortably quirky with a hip vibe and the essence of Central Square.
The Blue Room is an excellent feeding place for dinner but it is most well known for its weekly Sunday brunch that gets raves for its seasonal, imaginative multi-ethnic fare. Brunch is served casually along...
May 14th, 2010 | Maria Olia | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Food & Beverage, Restaurants & Bars
Mexico City Eats: Bunuelos
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One of the highlights of a visit to Mexico City is sampling a wide array of traditional Mexican foods, drinks and deserts. There are many excellent cafes, bars and restaurants located throughout the city, though you may be surprised to discover that some of the tastiest fare can be found at street stalls, markets and festivals.
Bunuelos are one of many delicious snacks that are sold inexpensively on the streets of Mexico City. They are traditional Mexican fritters, doughnuts or crisp pastries...
May 13th, 2010 | Laura Nazimiec | Read More | Comments: 1Filed under: featuredarticle, Food & Beverage, Mexico City Eats
Taste San Francisco
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San Francisco definitely leads the pack in wining and dining as an art form. To keep up on the latest and greatest of San Francisco food trends, the San Francisco Convention & Visitor Bureau’s TasteSF site is the spot where food enthusiasts will find sections on food, drink and taste experiences, chef profiles, the Foodie 411 blog, food events, a list of culinary tours and much more.
Some recent spotlights:
Carnivores are Back in Fashion. In San Francisco butchers are paying attention to how...
May 13th, 2010 | kleland | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: cocktails, Food & Beverage, Restaurants & Bars, Specialty foods
Sunset Wine Tasting at Thee Bungalow
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Nestled in the quaint Ocean Beach area, this neighborhood institution has been a part of the community since 1969. Thee Bungalow is a French-inspired casual fine dining restaurant known for their 200 page wine list. Since2007, Chef Paul Niles has elevated the quality of cuisine from excellent to exquisite. While he has taken care to leave several of the restaurant’s staples on the menu—the Roasted Half Duck and Osso Bungalow are favorites of long-time regulars—Niles has introduced...
May 12th, 2010 | Pam Nagata | Read More | Comments: 2Filed under: featuredarticle, Food & Beverage, Restaurants & Bars, wine
The Irresistible Creperie
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Eating a crepe on the go isn’t always possible, especially if it’s stuffed with drippy fruit sauces and loaded with cheese. However, once you become more adept, crepes turn out to be good mobile snacks. In Paris, you’ll find many crepe stands doling them out in wax paper or on paper plates. The Creperie NYC, one of New York’s few take-out places serving an extensive lineup of these savories, prepares them hot and crispy right before your eyes. The crepe artist behind the counter...
May 11th, 2010 | Steve Mirsky | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: featuredarticle, Food & Beverage, Restaurants & Bars
Celebrate Craft Beer Week
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From May 10 – 16, Vancouver will showcase 27 local micro breweries with a Vancouver Craft Beer Week celebration. Local restaurateurs, bar owners and brewers will host this inaugural fest with tastings and events at restaurants around the city. It’s the first of its kind in Canada, paying tribute to the many micro breweries that produce fine beers using products like whole grains, creating an excellent tasting brew without the added flavors of rice and corn used by macro breweries...
May 11th, 2010 | thevancouverguide | Read More | Comments: 4Filed under: Announcements, breweries, Events, featuredarticle, Food & Beverage
Beguiled-Teranga For Senegal Cuisine in Boston’s South End
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With exotic ingredients and dynamic seasoning, Teranga in Boston’s South End features the cuisine of the western African nation of Senegal and may just be one of the most interesting restaurants in Boston. The setting of this cozy upscale eatery is warm and comfortable with modern dark tropical wood furniture, subdued lighting, African art on the exposed brick walls and Afro/world pop music playing unobtrusively in the background.
Senegal cuisine is heavy on its reliance of fish, lamb and...
May 10th, 2010 | Maria Olia | Read More | Comments: 1Filed under: Food & Beverage, Restaurants & Bars
Costa da Caparica, Some of the Best Beaches in Lisbon
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Recently I moved to the other side of the river, to Costa da Caparica. Although just a short and beautiful boat ride from Lisbon, or some 15 minutes by car crossing 25 de Abril bridge, it feels like a sweet break from the rushing of the city.
But you may ask why I’m writing about it now… Costa da Caparica has the closest pristine, long shore beaches you may find in Lisbon. It’s the perfect place to go if you have one day off from Lisbon and just want to relax lying on a white sandy beach.
As...
May 10th, 2010 | Alexandre Kühl Oliveira | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Attractions, beach, Family Friendly, Food & Beverage, Outdoors & Recreation
Uncorked! Ghirardelli Square’s Wine Festival
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Ghirardelli Square, one of San Francisco’s most treasured icons hosts its Fifth Annual Uncorked! Wine Festival – Saturday, May 22. Enjoy unlimited wine tasting, Chef demos and more, all to benefit partner La Cocina, a non-profit organization serving as a platform for low-income entrepreneurs launching, formalizing or expanding their food businesses.
The Uncorked! Wine Festival, showcases more than 50 top-tier wineries from California’s premium wine making regions. A sampling of participating...
May 9th, 2010 | kleland | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Events, featuredarticle, festivals, Food & Beverage, wine
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