My sister had a few rules before I could take my eleven year old niece, Aubrey, to Paris & London. The first rule was to feed her every few hours even if she says she isn’t hungry (this seemed easy?). The second rule was no empty calories like I normally […]
My initial intent was to show my niece, Aubrey, the magic of dessert in all it’s tempting forms at Laduree on the Champs Elysses in Paris. My timing wasn’t quite so good as she hit “famished” on her internal food feeding barometer (she was eating 5xs a day!) right in […]
There are signs, both literally and figuratively all around us (or so I am told). For the most part, I try to interpret the signs (usually overthink them) hoping that I choose well (doesn’t always work though). We all need something to help us in our decision process. For […]
Dining solo in New Orleans was actually a concern of mine. While I have easily dined solo around the world, I was unsure how the madness of Bourbon Street and the French Quarter would affect my comfort level – would everyone be couples or groups having fun to the point […]
The solo dining series goes to Ireland for Solo Dining Dublin at Farm Restaurant. To those new to the blog, I travel solo and thought I would highlight a few dining experiences from my solo travels. Each review/report will be preceded with the following and attempt to follow a similar […]
Solo dining is either embraced or feared. I decided a long time ago to embrace it and look at it for what it is – I’m hungry and am allowed to eat, by myself, alone at a table and enjoy my meal just like the couples and groups around me. […]
Toronto is a very diverse city and like Philadelphia is organized around neighborhoods. Unlike Philadelphia where most residents are born and raised here, almost half of the residents of Toronto were born outside of Canada, not outside of the city but outside of the country. It is this diversity that […]
Growing up in Philadelphia, the cheesesteak is as local a food staple as are the soft pretzel, tastykakes and hoagies (back before we counted calories). I would accompany my mom first to the butcher shop to buy the sliced rib-eye meat and then to the local deli to pick up […]
For all of the international travels I have done, there are a few U.S. cities that i am a bit embarrassed not to have visited yet – Chicago was one of them. The flight from Philadelphia is short enough, there are two major league baseball teams and a plethora of […]
Philadelphia – You may know us for the history, the Rocky steps (hey, there is an awesome Art Museum at the top of the steps so keep running to explore it!) or the cheesesteak (Jim’s on South Street please). In the past decade, our restaurant scene has exploded with so […]