Category: Food Porn
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Melbourne: diverse, affordable, laid back, great food for cheap.
I really felt at home in Melbourne. It’s the kind of place I could easily see myself living long term. It’s everything that you could want in a city: diverse, affordable, laid back, young, inclusive, a great food scene that doesn’t take itself too seriously but is still as cultish as an Asian city.…
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The Willows Restaurant – Lummi Island – November 4, 2018
The experience of a place. At a certain moment. At a certain time. To celebrate the objects around you and see their perfection. Their uniqueness. Their connection to the land and its mechanisms of timeless balance. Is to understand that place. All great food cultures start with this. Our participation in this ecology binds…
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Sydney, Australia. The down under’s big city.
We only had a few days in Sydney but I feel like we got to explore the Central Business District fairly well. Sydney has the same broad multiculturalism that we enjoyed in Melbourne but the city is decidedly larger, and at least within the CBD, more densely urban. The atmosphere is a bit more…
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Sepia (Sydney) – September 5, 2018
Sepia is an experimental/molecular Japanese restaurant in Sydney and came recommended by Chef Eric Ripert from a trip he took to Sydney in 2015. I was unfamiliar with Sepia but intrigued by the review. Sepia was ranked #84 in the World’s 50 Best Restaurants list in 2015 and ranked #3 restaurant in Australia in…
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Osaka, Japan and the cult of the octopus dumpling.
Compared to the glittery metropolis of Tokyo or the ancient sublimity of Kyoto, it’s easy to forget the more grounded and working class city of Osaka. But that would be a mistake. The second largest metropolitan area in Japan at over 19 million, Osaka is bursting with welcoming personality and Osakans are well known…
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Discovering San Francisco: dive bars, red meat, strips clubs, and martinis.
By the time I first made it to Haight-Ashbury the only hippies left were crusty gutter punks yelling at the tourists from their cardboard sidewalk guesthouses. A jangle of extremes. A mix of cultures, tempered by the past, with the still green veneer of the way it used to be. The way it might…
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The House of Prime Rib – June 16, 2018
Do a search of the places you should try, must try, need to experience before you die, in San Francisco, and one particular anachronism from a by-gone era will surely appear. Like the stubborn soul of the city itself, this once pinnacle of dining indulgence soldiers on into this, and the next, uncertain generation…
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The Columbia Room (DC) – May 9th, 2018
The Columbia Room is a small cocktail bar tucked away in a DC alley that has a list of awards and credits including the Spirited Award’s Best American Cocktail Bar, the Washington Post’s Best Bar in DC, two years running and a James Beard semifinalist. This is the first bar I’ve seen with a…
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Pineapple and Pearls – May 8th, 2018
I was visiting Washington DC for a couple of nights and chef Aaron Silverman’s two Michelin starred Pineapple and Pearls came highly recommended. The website is a bit mysterious with no sample menu and very few photos. The restaurant offers one 12-course meal with either an alcoholic or non-alcoholic pairing, all inclusive for $325.…
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Bitterballen, hotchpotch stampot, jenever, and haring. Hunting down traditional Dutch food in Amsterdam.
Honestly, when it comes to northern European food, I hadn’t heard good things. But I have to say I fell in love with traditional Dutch food. Tasty bar snacks, hearty home-style meals with long simmered meats, a variety of cured fish, hunks of rich meat and cheese, good local liquor, unhealthy things to eat drunk…