Le Cafe Anglais, Bayswater

A few weekends ago, Jon and I had dinner at Le Cafe Anglais with our friends visiting from New York. I have to confess that the reason we went was pretty lame: I’d read a positive blurb about it in the New York Times. But you know, I rely on NYT articles when I travel [...]

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Eating Out in Israel

Our itinerary in Israel was pretty intense, taking us from Netanya to Jerusalem, the Dead Sea, the Golan Heights, the Galilee, Rosh HaNikra, Akko, Caesarea, Tel Aviv and back to Netanya. The good news is that we saw a lot of a small-but-rich-in-history-and-landscape country, and I loved getting to know Jon’s Israeli relatives, who took [...]

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Back from the Holy Land

I’ve just returned from a ten-day vacation in Israel. Like most bloggers, I had grand plans to post a series of live updates, but Jon and I moved around a lot, and broadband for my laptop wasn’t readily available in most of the places we stayed (esp. near Syria and Lebanon). I had an amazing [...]

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Venice Roundup: Vecio Fritolin and Osteria di Santa Marina

Vecio Fritolin was a tip we got from Mark Bittman’s article on Venice last year. The draw for us was his description that it’d serve the best fritto misto in Venice. Fried? Seafood? I’m there. It took us ages to find the place. Not because it was any harder to find than other restos in [...]

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My Lucky Day: Wimbledon Men’s Finals 2008

Although my friend Tom Perrotta has been in town to cover Wimbledon for Tennis Magazine and the New York Sun, I wasn’t able to score any tix to Wimbledon these last two weeks. Last night, I heard from a friend that Ticketmaster.co.uk was releasing 500 tickets the evening before each Wimbledon match, so my friends and I [...]

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