Your invitation to a special French dinner.

Your invitation to a special French dinner.

You may know about Don Day, the foodie. But you may not know that, in addition to eating and drinking, I have another obsession. Between meals, I enjoy doing things like pruning and planting, hoeing and sowing. Yes, Don Day has two very, very green thumbs and, in San...
Caught red-handed. At Los Originales.

Caught red-handed. At Los Originales.

There are a lot of Mexican dishes I miss when I’m living the other half of my double life in Canada. But none more than tacos al pastor. In my opinion, there is no taste so simple yet so complicated anywhere else in Mexican cuisine. The term al pastor can be defined...
Ring out the old. Ring in the new.

Ring out the old. Ring in the new.

Susan and I had both seen the buzz all over social media. “Marco is back. Marco is back.” So, when we were planning one of our not-often-enough lunches, I loved Susan’s idea that we’d go to Tyto’s and have one of Marco’s fondly remembered pizzas. Susan is Susan Knight...
Suggest you add this one to your best burger list.

Suggest you add this one to your best burger list.

It was the comments on a post in SMA Foodies that caught my eye. Someone was asking about the best burger in town. And the usual names were on the recommendations list.  Grandpa & Son. Absolutely. Birdie’s. Of course. Hank’s. Definitely. Chilly Billy. La Chope....
And the morel of this story is…

And the morel of this story is…

There I was checking out Soltribe, for the first time since their big move to Mercado Sano. A brave decision by them I thought. Could they survive where so many have failed? It’s a good-looking space but, with the room almost empty at lunch time, the jury, I think, is...
The ramen king has a new castle.

The ramen king has a new castle.

It all sounded wonderful at first. Take the proven shopping mall food court concept and move it into town with a little more warmth, charm and selection for the clients and a lot more affordability for the tenants. Over 70 entrepreneurial individuals and businesses...
If it’s Tuesday, it must be…

If it’s Tuesday, it must be…

It’s been happening in San Miguel de Allende for a few years now. A group of guys gets together once a week and complains about the weather, food prices, sports, politics, TV reception, booze prices, traffic, grandkids, their health and the fact that their wives...
TGIF. It’s taco tasting time.

TGIF. It’s taco tasting time.

It was mostly memories not tacos that took us to Restaurant Del Parque. There on the page dedicated to the restaurant on the Casa de Sierra Nevada website was a photo of “our table”, the exact place where we sat several times, starting over twenty years ago, in what...
16 nights. 16 Spanish wines. 

16 nights. 16 Spanish wines. 

I went to Spain a couple of months ago. By way of Celaya in Central Mexico. Enjoyed the trip immensely. Thanks to an amazing tour guide called Costco. The retailer did an extraordinarily good job of finding the very best values from all over the country. With only one...
Oh my gosh! Omakase at Ryoko.

Oh my gosh! Omakase at Ryoko.

“I pledge my allegiance…” We changed Japanese restaurants recently. And, though they definitely deserved us deserting them, I still felt like a guy leaving one of his best friends. But our old faithful had gone astray. Cutting the amount of fish on their rolls in half...