I was in my fifties when I finally made it to New Orleans. On my first morning, I knew exactly where I wanted to go. 923 Decatur Street in the French Quarter. That was the location of an old Italian food market called Central Grocery who made one of the world’s...
Do you have a restaurant where, every time you go, you order the same things? You want to try other things but you just can’t. Because that would mean giving up your favorite things. That’s the way it is with me at Baja Fish Taquito. I start by ordering...
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...
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