Night one here in Coimbra, Portugal, I decide we are too far from our restaurant of choice to walk so we drive from Santa Clara where we are staying, across the bridge and into Coimbra. We park on a side street and get out to walk the last 400 meters. I think to myself I […]
Not our first pick. And if you read yesterday’s dinner blog you will read of my walk. I hate to share we repeated practically the same walk tonight. Up, down, up, stairs, cobbled streets, alleyways. And in the end had a mediocre dinner in a lovely place but totally tourist. There were a trio of […]
no soup dumplings until after 5 pm So we got finger bao along with scallion pancake with beef and string beans. The beans were great. The pancakes good. The dumplings flavorless We spent most of lunch picking places where we can hopefully grab a baguette
For years I have been walking past this little restaurant on 64th Street between Madison and 5th Avenue. I walk past and see the tables down a few steps with their white tablecloths and I also think how nice it would be to eat there. Well, tonight we did. And Altesi was fabulous. We shared […]
So we are/ I am on an order in Chinese kick this week. It’s actually my normal condition but this week I went overboard and tried a few new places King Jade Garden – some super yummy roast pork, a good soup dumpling except the soup spilled out, bland broccoli, and a passable low mein. […]
Dumplings – ok noodles had a nice flavor Broccoli was incredibly spicy location and cleanliness both good would try again if I were in the neighborhood, craving dumplings and had the 35 minutes. Stopped in on the way to the Rattle Theatre. It was fine, nothing else to say.
So the girls are in town for Thanksgiving and we all wanted to see the Christmas market, the tree and the ice skaters at Bryant Park so it was only natural to google ‘best Japanese lunch’. After a few discussions it was settled we would try Ootoya. We arrived to a wait of a half […]
Another Chinese delivery from Grubhub Pork Steamed Soup Buns.$9.95, Dry Sauteed String Beans $18.95, Mai Fun Beef, Crispy Pork Chops with Peppery Salt Red Peony (Formerly Joe’s Shanghai) – how could I not try it… Well, if I had known how expensive and not good it was I could have resisted. The soup dumplings were […]
A pillow, I needed a pillow, so we got to go shopping —- into a nearby department store we went. Le BHV- it was easy to find soemone who wanted to practice English and we walked out with a few hand towels and ( as I write this the next day – a fabulous pillow […]
We arrived on the Eurostar in no time at all from London and were settled into our dorm room of an airbnb by 1 pm. Great location but really, a five star at an Airbnb is now meaningless to me. Remember- bring soap, hand towels, dishtowels, a few trash bags and a good attitude because […]