Great Sources on Travel
Darina Allen Ballymaloe Cookery School, Restaurant and Inn Shanagarry, Co. Cork, Ireland www.cookingisfun.ir David Kinch Manresa Restaurant Los Gatos, CA www.manresarestaurant.com The Ritz Carlton at Amelia Island Restaurant Salt Florida www.ritzcarlton.com/en/Properties/AmeliaIsland The...
Unisex Bathrooms
Will you please put the seat down when you’re done? They tell me unisex bathrooms are appearing in more restaurants, bars and lounges across the country and I can’t say YES and thank you loud or fast enough. If you’ve been out with...
The Gardening Chef
Not a totally new idea but Chefs Sean Minahan with Levy Restaurants at the David Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh has a bountiful container roof garden with a million dollar view (we snuck a few cherry tomatoes off plants hmmm). This is also...
Eating in the Kitchen and tasting menus…
Can put you up close to the kitchen team. My first time was many years ago in a Baltimore waterfront hotel. We sat at a rather ordinary table in the kitchen, no glass walls or fancy chairs and accoutrements like so many today. The food was wonderful...
Salt, salt and more salt
At a Chef Richard Gras tasting menu in the kitchen at Salt, in the Ritz Carlton, Amelia Island we had a little divided tray on our table with an outstanding assortment of salts. I had recently visited Penzy’s spice store in Pittsburgh on the...
