This city is undoubtedly one of the best places in the world to eat.
Get a local taxi driver to recommend his favourite dish (in writing) and someone else to suggest the restaurant where you could order it (in writing!). In my case it turned out to be thinly sliced squid in mild chilis eaten at [...]
The purchase was prompted by a recent article in ZEIT Wissen (in German), which describes how to make a good cup of coffee using a coffee-grinder in combination with an old-fashioned drip-filter…. I am not sure if it is an anecdote, but I read somewhere that Icelanders even take their own coffee when they travel to Italy — as they don’t trust any other nation could make equally good coffee.After almost 10 days of experimenting with my drip-filter I finally went on a quest for a good cappuccino in Maastricht, and found it at Coffeelovers.
Just spent 4 fantastic days in Edinburgh … at the fringe, the film, and THE festival. loved it. the people of edinburgh are so friendly, that at the end of the first day I had the strange feeling that something must be wrong. but the next few days convinced me it wasn’t — or [...]
Say hello if you come visit (and I am back from Holland / Feb 2006).Royal Eatery — great place for a quick burger if you can stand the slightly over-the-top young artsy-fartsy crowd…. Have a Royal with double-cheese and a shake and you are all set.There are many many others — you must have the chocolate beef at madame zingara, melissa’s on kloof has a great lunch buffett, posticino in sea point makes the best pizza, etc. — but I will close here.
More from the amazing people at Birds Boutique Cafe in Cape Town. Organic wine tasting evening on 29 July …
where to start. namibian fairies working wholesome wonders in the half-hidden kitchen. the mother - a bread baking matriarch - that will trade secret camping recipes with a curious guest. one daughter responsible for design of cards (loves that they are printed in london), menus, signs, rooms. the other daughter - slow food enthusiast, who - not entirely unrushed - somehow manages to keep everything in balance (and wonders why the cards have to be printed in london).