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…
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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….
Boston: Cafe ArtScience
Cafe ArtScience has been on our radar screen since it opened a little over a year ago. It is the offspring of Le Laboratoire in Paris which is the gallery and cafe that Harvard professor (and millionaire startup seller) David Edwards opened in Paris. More recently Edwards opened a Le Laboratoire in Cambridge. Here, art, science and food…
Paris: George V
After a truly wonderful lunch at Prémices, we headed to the Musee Carnavalet which is located in Le Marias and dedicated to the history of Paris. There is a large sculpture of of Louis XIV the Sun King in the courtyard which seemed to be mocking our gluttony to date 🙂 It was a very interesting…