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Just when it seemed like I was getting a good grip on my massive backlog of restaurant reports, this week ran away from me a little bit. I posted a report from Bombay on Tuesday but then completely failed to put up a Twin Cities report on Wednesday and a Seoul report on Friday to say [ ]
I m still alive. I ve been exhausted and out of it and also more than a little bit under the weather since I got back from Delhi in the middle of last week. I didn t end up having the energy to write up the promised weekend restaurant report from New Jersey; and, thanks to some major [ ]
Seoul, as you may know, has a number of so-called food alleys streets or other concentrated areas that feature a large number of casual restaurants or counters right next to each other that specialize in the same major genre of food. The thinking presumably is that it is a safer bet to open a restaurant in [ ]
I d thought I d post this Twin Cities report on Thursday after getting back to Minnesota; but, thanks to a two-hour flight delay, it s coming to you instead from Schiphol airport in Amsterdam where I have run out of things to do. This report on lunch at our current favourite Thai restaurant in the Twin Cities, [ ]
After three first-time reports from Bombay restaurants (Pradeep s Gomantak Bhojanalay, Sarangaa, and Maaslli) from my five-week sojourn in the city in March and April of this year, here is the first repeat. As I ve mentioned before, I eat at Swati Snacks every time I am in Bombay (see my previous reports here and here) and, [ ]
Another week, another Whiskybase release. Unlike last week s Littlemill 25 or the previous week s Caol Ila 30, however, this was not a release under their Archives label. Instead, it s one of the regular Whiskybase labels used for releases that commemorate milestones reached on their invaluable database. This Ben Nevis 18 was bottled in February 2015 [ ]
Back to the missus and my trip to New York, last October. When last seen in the city, we were eating Italian dinner at the since-closed Foul Witch with a very old friend of mine. Lunch was with someone I ve known for a much shorter time and, until this lunch, only online, Krishnendu Ray, professor [ ]
This week s Seoul report is a quick look at dinner at a Seoul restaurant I ve reported on twice before: Gwanghwamun Gukbap. As with all the other Seoul restaurants I ve reported on so far from this trip (here, here, and here), Gwanghwamun Gukbap is within walking distance of where we were staying, near Gwanghwamun Square. As [ ]
Here is the last of my Twin Cities backlog from the start of the year. The federal government s siege of Minnesota and particularly the Twin Cities during the first two months of the year had transformed life in the state. Hispanics were among the groups most targeted by ICE and if this meant that restaurants and other [ ]
The first thing I did after settling into my flat in Bombay in late March was fire up Google Maps to see if there were any interesting restaurants within easy walking range. It turned out there were very few. One, however, caught my eye: Maaslli. I looked it up and discovered that it is a [ ]