Tag: Italian Cuisine
Grezi Buffalo: Perfect service, decent menu
For our first evening in Buffalo, my wife found this restaurant located near our hotel.
Here's a look back at a pleasant experience, even if the food could have been better.
The concept
The concept is that of a gourmet brasserie inspired...
Regina Lucia in Syracuse: contemporary Sicilian cuisine of excellent quality
Regina Lucia in Syracuse offers gourmet contemporary Sicilian cuisine of the highest quality. The perfect balance between a street corner restaurant and a Michelin-starred restaurant.
On my second evening in Syracuse, I went down a notch or two...
Cortile Spirito Santo in Syracuse: a refined Sicilian Michelin-starred restaurant
Cortile Spirto Santo in Syracuse, awarded a Michelin star, offers refined Sicilian cuisine of excellent quality and attentive service.
To occupy my two evenings in Syracuse, I wanted to try a Michelin-starred restaurant and a simpler gastronomic one, and so...
Capitano Carlton in Melbourne: it doesn’t look like much but the pizzas are very good
Capitano Carlton is a good Italian restaurant that doesn't look like much but serves very good pizzas. Does that mean you have to go that far from the city center to get a pizza?
While researching the local culinary...
Spago by Wolfgang Puck, Budapest: an equally successful second experience
For our second stay at Matild Palace, we booked both nights at the Spago restaurant, run by the iconic chef Wolfgang Puck. Although we'd dined at this restaurant before, I can confirm twice that the experience is always excellent....
Restaurant Ottimo, The Ritz-Carlton Budapest: excellent food, service not up to scratch
During our short stay in Budapest before heading on to Debrecen, we decided to have lunch at the restaurant of The Ritz-Carlton, the hotel we were staying in for the night, which offered a new concept in Italian dining.
As...
The Purple Pig Chicago: very good, but noisy and with perfectible service
The Purple Pig offers friendly, tasty food in a lively setting, but it didn't quite strike my fancy.
Choosing the restaurants for this trip required a bit of organizational work. Since these weren't originally joint vacations, but Olivier and I...
Restaurant Tentazioni in Bordeaux: a little piece of Italy with gourmet flavours
Tentazioni is an excellent Italian gourmet restaurant in Bordeaux, offering sophisticated but unpretentious cuisine in a warm, family atmosphere, where you'll discover aspects of Italian cuisine you'd never have imagined.
When I planned this trip I had identified a number...
Serafina Seaport Restaurant, Boston: Excellent menu, well executed
Just after the Boston Marathon, we decided to go for dinner in our neighborhood and chose this Italian restaurant, Serafina, which my wife knows well from dining there with her colleagues.
Here is a review of this successful culinary experience.
The...