Drink & Dine

Dining in Latvia: Riga
Riga is a fantastic city. Sure, it does not have the fairy tale views that you get in Tallinn, nor the grandeur of Helsinki. There is however an edginess to
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Dining in Estonia: Tartu
Tartu is the second city of Estonia, which make it sound a lot bigger than it actually is. It is lovely for an afternoon stroll though, and when you also
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Dining in Helsinki
It has been a while! Again! Who knew selling sake and other Japanese drinks would be so time-consuming? And then there is the old writer’s block popping up again, which
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London Food (IV) – Ottolenghi’s Nopi
So, having enjoyed last year’s experience at Ottolenghi’s Spitalfields location, we took our precautions and booked a table at Nopi well in advance. Rightly so, seeing as the place was
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London Food (III) – Taberna do Mercado
Finding a restaurant in London on a Sunday evening proved quite the challenge. I had a (short) wishlist, but almost none of them were open bar for a Sunday roast.
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London Food (II) – Ottolenghi Spitalfields
Do I still need to introduce Yotam Ottolenghi? The man’s books can be found everywhere, but in all fairness, rightly so. I think that I have made almost everything that
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London Food (I) – Noble Rot
Visiting RAW a month ago was a perfect opportunity to check out a couple of restaurants that had been on my watch list for some time. In all honesty, it
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Dinner at De Jong in Rotterdam
Note: A love for wine is inextricably linked with a love for food but in the vast majority of restaurant reviews it is woefully ignored. I suspect that this is either
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Dinner at Souvenir in Ieper
One of the most agonizing tasks for a winelover, aside from racking your brain for all kinds of exotic aromas that you can supposedly find in a wine, is coming
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