Tables
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Sept 2026I’m looking for the places that actually care about their vegan diners, with interesting food, thoughtful choices, and enough on the menu to make you want to sit down and stay awhile.
Aug 2026We decided to spend a day wandering around Centro Histórico, with input, and thankfully a few deviations from our AI overlords.
Aug 2026It wasn't just beautiful. It was everything I want in a dessert.
Jan 2026If you are going to Machu Picchu by train, don't just pass through Ollantaytambo on the way. Get off the train, stay a night or two and explore.
May 2024The boat ride isn't just transportation. It's part of the experience.
Apr 2024Mo‘orea was our first mini-life. We spent seven weeks on the island, most of them in a little rental called Iris Fare, and I fell for it immediately.
Tables
Sept 2026The dish I dream about. The tostada I suddenly need again. The salad I wish I could have for lunch. The bite that makes me want to go back to a restaurant specifically for that one thing.
Sept 2026It was dramatic, strangely ceremonial, and incredibly mesmerising to watch a whole fish become a series of distinct pieces, each with its own name, texture, and purpose.
Sept 2026And then there is the nasturtium leaf. It is the smallest detail, but it is the thing I can't stop thinking about. The leaf is dotted with tiny drops of white vinegar, carefully placed so they look like dew drops.
Sept 2026It has become the place I take almost everyone who visits me. And without fail, they love it.
Sept 2026Finding a rooftop table in San Miguel is not exactly a challenge. In fact, it is almost too easy.
Sept 2026San Miguel de Allende is the kind of town where lunch or brunch can turn into an afternoon without anyone noticing.
Sept 2026Mexico is a serious coffee country, from the highlands of Chiapas and Oaxaca to the little cafés tucked into the streets of San Miguel.
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Sept 2026It is peaceful and wonderfully old-fashioned. I always feel as if I am having lunch at someone's wealthy aunt's house.
Sept 2026Behind a very unassuming door in San Miguel de Allende is Bennu, a low-key little restaurant built around sourdough, slow-fermented pizza and very good vegetables.
Aug 2026The stained glass at the Gran Hotel is breathtaking. Mostly blue, it fills the enormous atrium with a prism of color.
Aug 2026You can see that they are striving, trying to get better, pushing themselves and caring deeply about what they put on the plate. There is something lovely about witnessing that kind of care.
Aug 2026Tucked up on the eighth floor is a coffee shop with an outdoor terrace facing directly across at the Palacio de Bellas Artes. The view is incredible.
Aug 2026Something about this small, rather unassuming bakery pulled us in.
Aug 2026I have eaten a lot of great tacos in Mexico. A particular taquería might make a spectacular birria, or a certain stall might have a fantastic taco al pastor. But Trinidad does something harder. They make great tacos across the board.
Aug 2026Somewhere you want to linger for a drink, soak up the atmosphere and watch the room come alive.
Aug 2026I love food that brings different cultures together in unexpected ways.
Aug 2026One of the reasons I go to restaurants is to steal ideas. Not recipes exactly, but combinations — a flavour I hadn't thought of putting together, a technique, something that makes me come home and start thinking.
Jun 2026We turned up on a rainy night with no reservation and no expectations, and they walked us to the chef's table. That night we happened to get the best seat in the house.
Jun 2026Honolulu's Chinatown feels alive, which I can't say for a lot of Chinatowns across America — and Senia is the place to grab a table, or better yet, a seat at the bar.
I'm not even a big pasta eater, but the lemon ricotta ravioli got me before I'd taken a bite — candlelight, a record player, and pasta drying in the window.
May 2026There is something I really like about places that don't make a big fuss about themselves — the corn-and-masa offshoot of Pujol is one of those places.
May 2026Tables spilling onto the leafy street, and bluefin tuna from the Gulf of Baja. If you see it on a menu, order it.
May 2026They really know how to do sauces here. They aren't an afterthought. They are what make the dishes. Take a seat at the bar.
May 2026Enrique Olvera's two-Michelin-starred flagship, where we had my birthday lunch. Noah has been dying to try the mole madre forever. It did not disappoint.
May 2026I love anything that feels like a secret. A hidden supper club down a residential soi in On Nut, no ordering required — just Dylan's food, Chow's company, and a long conversation about curry.
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Jan 2026You can see that mix in the two restaurants we ate at in Barranco. At Awicha, Peruvian ingredients and traditions meet French, Italian and Japanese influences. At Demo, Venezuelan chef Juan Luis Martínez brings his Venezuelan roots into his cooking, combining them with Peru.
The Tropical Garden version has big pieces of raw tuna dressed with coconut milk and lime, with finely sliced vegetables and sprouts piled over the top.