Top Chef Winner Stephanie Izard is Set to Open Her New Chicago Restaurant

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Top Chef Season 4 winner and Chicagoan Stephanie Izard is scheduled to open her new restaurant, the Drunken Goat, in January 2010. The location will be in Wicker Park, and the ambiance is described to be “downscaled, yet trendy.” The restaurant will focus on “shared plates” with Spanish and Italian dishes. The restaurant is named after a Spanish dish called a “Drunken Goat,” which is an artisan Spanish goat cheese with a wine-soaked rind, said to be one of Izard’s favorites. While...

October 30th, 2009 | Lisa Davis | Read More | Comments: 0
Filed under: Chicago, dining, featuredarticle, restaurant, Stephanie Izard, top chef

Soul de Cuba Cafe

... long been on my list of places to dine. Located in the middle of downtown Honolulu (at 1121 Bethel Street), Soul de Cuba is really the ONLY Cuban restaurant in Honolulu — maybe even in the islands, and it’s a true delight. Sould de Cuba Cafe was founded by brothers Jesus and Robert Puerto, along with Yoon Kim. Jesus and Robert had the shared dream of owning a restaurant, enrolled in a 2-year restaurant management course over a decade ago. In the summer of 2004, they happened to meet...

October 14th, 2009 | byun | Read More | Comments: 1
Filed under: Cuba, cuisine, food, Hawaii, honolulu, Oahu, restaurant

Natural Turkish Air Conditioning

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... is a welcome respite to Turkey’s baking desert (or mountain, or coastal) heat. At the moment I seem to have misplaced the details about the fun restaurant pictured below (although the photo is accurately geotagged; if you click on them you’ll see them placed on the PlanetEye map), but there are a few similar places in the vicinity of the Chimaera. Here, not only do you eat on platforms above a wide, rushing stream, you can even fish for your own lunch! ...

January 30th, 2009 | Brendan | Read More | Comments: 0
Filed under: air-con, culture, Customs & Rituals, eating, restaurant, turkey, water

Dining in Mendoza –Francis Mallmann 1884

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So as promised, this is my final restaurant review for the next little while. This blog is NOT intended to be a series of restaurant/winery reviews…but the fact that I’ve written about nothing else while in Mendoza pretty much sums up what I got up to while here. Seriously, there can be few places in the world better for the wandering oenophile-gourmet. Oh, Mendoza, how I will miss you. Next up: beer, mountains, lakes and volcanoes, chocolate, salsa (of the dancing variety), more wine…Bariloche...

September 14th, 2008 | Brendan | Read More | Comments: 0
Filed under: 1884, drinking, eating, Francis Mallmann, Mendoza, restaurant