You might have seen it on Salida a Celaya! Looking very slick. Looking very much like a chain. And the last thing I want to be linked to is a chain. But I was intrigued. Not as a foodie but as an entrepreneur. I may seldom eat at fast food chains but I have tremendous...
An ex once said to me, “You know you’d eat horse droppings if they served it in a restaurant starting with the word ‘Chez’.” I was eating sweetbreads at the time and I have eaten and will continue to eat most every part of the world’s most tasty creatures. So, yes, by...
It’s a once a week, absolutely-every-week-that-we’re-there, tradition in Toronto. I’m talking about dim sum at lunch. Those wonderful little Chinese treats, steamed or fried, three or four to the serving, that date back to the 10th Century tea houses on the Silk Road...
“Suckin’ on a chili dog outside the Tastee-Freez.” It wasn’t John Mellencamp playing when I walked into Chilli Billy. It was Jackson Browne and “Running On Empty”. Which was exactly how my stomach was feeling after foolishly (OK, stupidly) neglecting to eat...
I’ve seen crèpes suzette, bananas foster and cherries jubilee. I’ve seen desserts that bubbled, that sparkled, that smoked. But I’d never seen anything quite like this. We’d already had five courses. But we’d split them. And there were three of us. So there was...
Through most of my 18 winters in San Miguel de Allende, finding good sushi has been a battle. And, usually, a losing battle. Those days though may now be over. More and more Mexico City money is coming to town and that money is being used to open new restaurants on an...
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