Newfoundland Restaurants Worth the Drive
From pastry pit stops to dining destinations, these are the Newfoundland restaurants to stop on a road trip.
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The Newfoundland Staycation Bucket List
The ultimate bucket list to make sure your Newfoundland staycation is the best summer vacation you’ve ever had!
24 Hours of Eating In Milan
Milan is different than the other cities in Italy. It has a stylish grit that cannot be replicated — a beautiful intensity is prevalent in the oppressive stone architecture littered with bright graffiti. Most of the city was demolished in World War Two so there’s modernity in the mix here not present in other major cities. There’s a style all her town. I like to refer to her as your friend’s older gothic sister who’s away at art school. And finding the best restaurants in Milan isn’t the same as stumbling upon a non-touristy trattoria in Rome.
24 Hours of Eating in Quebec City Restaurants
Whether you have a week to digest or only have 24 hours to inhale, here’s how to eat some of the best Quebec City restaurants.
Shakshuka Spaghetti Bake
Who doesn’t love Shakshuka and spaghetti? This mash-up egg dish is great for dinner or brunch by adding pasta to the Middle Eastern favourite.
Dining at Da Nada: A hilltop restaurant in Maremma, Tuscany
“Eat there,” Carla said in her charming Italian-accented French, pointing to Da Nada restaurant typed out amongst a list of local restaurants in a giant welcome binder. After a seven-hour road trip from Milan — which included a very-out-of-the-way detour to Eataly World outside Bologna — Adam and I had arrived at our agriturismo. Carla and her family have owned Fattoria di Peruzzo for decades, welcoming people from all over the world to stay on their farm in one of four repurposed barns and outbuildings and we were welcomed with barking dogs, that giant welcome binder, hot espresso and a broken conversation about where we should be eating in and around Roccatederighi.
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The 7th Blogiversary Itch
The seventh blogiversary post about all of the food I ate in the past year and all the hotels I reviewed.
Glamping by the ocean! The most unique of Bonavista accommodations
Charming B&Bs and vacation homes abound when it comes to Bonavista accommodations, but there is nothing like Bonavista Living’s eco glamping pods.
Prosciutto and Parmesan Egg Tartine Recipe
This post is sponsored by Get Cracking. As always, all opinions expressed in this post are my own.
There aren’t many bright mornings here in St. John’s, even in the summer. Most of the time we wake up to grey skies and fog drifting into the harbour, and a few weeks back when I woke up early for the Wake Up To Yellow event it was a regular kind of morning… until I got downtown. Walking along Water Street on that Wednesday morning I couldn’t help but notice all the yellow! Yellow flags, yellow tents and people in yellow jackets handing out yellow potted flowers. What an amazing way to start the day!
The Culpeper: The Best Pub Hotel in London
Eat (lots), drink (lots) and sleep (well) at The Culpeper in East London. Why should stay at this pub hotel on your next visit to London!
Get Cracking, the Wake Up to Yellow event is coming to St. John’s!
Get cracking! The Wake Up to Yellow event is coming to St. John’s this summer bringing all the eggy goodness for breakfast.
Goubuli restaurant in Tianjin: a bao history lesson
Marathon eating is my motto, but last summer’s media fellowship to China took things to another level (or should we say another stomach?) Travelling with seven journalists and the Canadian Chinese Business Council, I visited five cities in eight days, eating in countless restaurants — each table piled higher than the last with every imaginable dish. I was so excited to try anything and everything! Consulting my iPhone notes post trip, I realized during the week I consumed: fish stomach soup (delicious), chicken feet (weird texture but good flavour), frog legs (amazing), duck tongue (nope) and the infamous century egg (somehow I don’t remember eating, but there’s a picture).
Goubuli restaurant in Tianjin was the third stop on this whirlwind tour. Thirty minutes by high-speed train from Beijing, this coastal city is home to a gorgeous river promenade, historic buildings (it used to be a major trading port) and 15 million people. On our first night in Tianjin, we were scheduled to eat at Goubuli restaurant and I had no idea the adventure I was in for. Stepping out of the minibus, I tried to get an Instagram shot of Goubuli’s blinding exterior which looked like it belonged on the Vegas strip. But it was too big. Too shiny. Too glorious.
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