Eating and Drinking in Istria, Croatia

Considering how much I’ve read about Lidia Bastianich’s roots in Istria, I was sad that our experiences eating out and drinking in Istria were generally so-so. Our best food market experience was, in terms of consistent freshness and variety of produce, at the enormous Mercator hypermarket in Pula (think Wal-Mart size), and our best restaurant […]

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Seaside Towns in Istria: Rovinj and Pula

When Istria markets itself as the New Tuscany, in some ways it’s exaggerating (e.g., the food and wine, on which I’ll post next, is disappointing), and in other ways, it’s selling itself short. As an example of the latter, Istria has not only the picturesque hill towns described in my last post, but also it […]

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Hill Towns in Istria: Mrgani, Motovun, Groznjan

After having spent eight days exploring Istria, the peninsula in the northern part of Croatia that markets itself as “the new Tuscany.” Visually, I’ve decided that many Istrian towns lived up to the description. Hill towns glowed gold in a warm, spring sun, and all the ones we visited were crowned by weathered stone buildings, […]

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Restaurant Reviews (Outside the UK)

Below is a list (organized by country, and then city) of the restaurants and food shops I’ve blogged about since September 2006. The resto names are hyperlinked to the blog post where I described Jon and my visits in detail. The list is up to date as of February 2011. I realize there’s a lot […]

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Ljubljana: Lovely and Lively, even on Easter Sunday

We arrived in Ljubljana last night with few expectations, figuring only that we would be hard pressed to find any open restaurants or stores today, which is Easter Sunday. But it turns out that Ljubljana has such a lively, gracious cafe culture that not even Easter Sunday prevents crowds of friends and family from gathering […]

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