A great restaurant meal is so much more than the food. It is the service. It is the room. It is the company you keep. It is the mood you are in that day. It is wonderful when all the pieces come together but it is not hard for something to go amiss. A recent…
Saint Barthélemy: Pipiri Palace
“Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face.” -Victor Hugo, Les Misérables Perhaps even better than laughter for chasing winter from the face is laughter + St. Barts with old friends. The combination is positively summery! We decided to meet up at Pipiri Palace. Might I suggest that when you are feeling that…
Boston: Gordon’s in DTX & jm Curley
Have to shout out a great new wine store in Boston. After attending an open house of a “modernized” brownstone in Beacon Hill, we wandered into Gordon’s in Downtown Crossing on Temple Place yesterday and fell in love. The space is beautiful. The folks that renovated the property in Beacon Hill should have given Gordon’s…
Saint Barthélemy: L’Entracte
How to follow up a lovely lunch at Tamarin? A lazy afternoon at Gouverneur beach where we would eventually tackle the next major decision of the day and one that would vex us repeatedly during our trip, “Where should we eat dinner?” This answer was pretty simple. We headed into Gustavia for a light dinner at L’Entracte. The pizzas at…
Saint Barthélemy: L’Isola
I am sitting in L’Isola and I am having a vaguely out-of-body experience. Where am I? Where did all of these people come from? Why does my waiter have an Italian accent? I was on St. Barts just minutes ago but upon being seated at L’Isola I feel like I am a million miles away….