The world’s best cuisines? In my opinion? Number five: Japanese. Number four: Mexican. Number three: Italian. Number two: Chinese. Number one: French. So imagine how I feel living in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. 142,000 people according to that sign I see on...
You’re walking down the street, way out on the fringes of San Rafael, a Colonia in San Miguel de Allende where you’ve never had lunch in your life, and there, peering out from behind the trunk of a laurel tree, you see a sign. “Check the...
With many thanks to photographers Becky Milward, Yannis Dettingmeijer, Richard Smerdon and Marshall Postnikoff. Last night, at San Miguel restaurant Firenze, the gala dinner for the 2016 SMART awards was held. SMART stands for San Miguel de Allende Readers’...
She denies it. But I’ll swear that Lee Duberman has some Asian blood in her. Look at those eyes. Don’t they look a little slanted to you? In Toronto, once a week, every week, I have a bowl of ramen. In San Miguel de Allende, once a day, every day, I dream...
I’m usually very ho hum when a new Italian restaurant opens in San Miguel de Allende. We’ve already got at least five good ones. And we’ve already got a lot of overlap in the dishes they’re putting on tables. But the latest one had me...
Don Day’s Wife has been called a lot of names. And, unlike many that I’ve been called, all of hers are printable. She’s sometimes called Sharona, like the woman who’s never gonna stop, never give it up in the song by The Knack. She’s sometimes known as...
Even though they’re the only two Sicilians that I’ve ever met in Mexico, I do understand why they’d move to San Miguel de Allende. It’s probably because, like me, they just might think it’s the most absolutely wonderful place in the...
Serves two. For more or less people, adjust quantities accordingly. This is the full length version; for the condensed version, omit steps one to four. 1. At approximately 1:00 pm, turn on Netflix. 2. Even though you detest using the cumbersome Netflix SEARCH...
OK, let’s get this out of the way right off the top. This ain’t your mother’s porchetta. Not if you were a kid who comes from an Italian family in Hartford or Philadelphia or on the Jersey shore. Or a kid like me who was raised with Italian kids in...
No, I’m not going to tell you which restaurant it is. You’re going to tell me. For it’s time again for the SMART awards. The annual event where I ask Don Day in SMA readers to tell me your favorite restaurants. SMART stands for San Miguel de Allende...
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