Kenna, the hostess at Casa Moro, asked, “What do you guys want for lunch?” “We like local places,” I said. “The kind of place you’d go.” She grinned. (She knows everything, this Kenna.) “It’s...
For me, pizza falls into five categories: 1) authentic Italian-style pizza, distinguished by its wood-fired, from-scratch crust, and simple fresh ingredients 2) American-style pizza (my personal favorite), incorporating cooked sauces, copious...
Given that we were staying at the LeBua in Bangkok, it seemed a shame not to snag a seat at Sirocco — the swanky open-air restaurant on the 63rd floor of the hotel. After all, how often do you get a chance to eat at one of Conde Nast...
See those crisp, delicious “golden bags?” I whipped them up myself at the BaiPai Thai Cooking School just this morning. With the help of a chef and a smiling team of assistants, Clyde and I mixed up our minced pork with assorted...
We make our way down a sidewalk packed with people: men in white surgical masks, women having their facial hair removed with dental floss, young men on motorcycles, young women in plastic flip-flops. The humid evening air stinks of exhaust. Amulet...
We’re home from Romania! Outside of Bucharest (the capitol), fast wifi was hard to find, so I have a backlog of travel tales to share. But while I get these tidied up for posting, you might enjoy reading about our most memorable Romanian...
Radial Cafe — hidden away over in Candler Park, near the Edgewood MARTA station — serves fresh, environmentally (and, often, vegetarian- and vegan-) friendly dishes for breakfast and lunch (seven days a week) and dinner (Thursday...
Our friends’ new condo near the corner of 5th and Peachtree comes with an intriguing amenity: popular eatery Takorea is smack dab in the middle of their backyard. After checking out their swanky new digs, we headed downstairs, crossed an...
This week, I picked up TimeToEnjoy, the remarkable local discovery app. (You tap a date and time on the calendar, and it finds *everything* going on in your vicinity during that time.) Today, based on its recommendation, we trekked out to Atlanta...
