2019-01-29 15:01
I went to Budapest for two days to meet my dad and wife and my niece who was visiting from Valencia. The one restaurant I knew I couldn’t miss was Mazel Tov-plus how could we resist a… Read More
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I have high food expectations, will the meals and trips meet them? I am Food obsessed and will travel anywhere for good food - fancy, casual or street food!
2018-08-04 00:51
I had heard about Scully from a friend and had been very high on my list. The restaurant is named after chef Ramael Scully. He was previously at Nopi and his food is a mix of his heritage &n&hell…Read More
2018-07-01 18:24
I love Israeli food and Ottolenghi is was of the first ones to bring it to London. He has several restaurants and I definitely crave his savory cheesecake at Nopi. So, when I heard his… Read More
2018-06-02 15:19
I am definitely the worst food blogger on earth. I haven’t written a post in 4 months. To be fair, I took a job in a London late February and have been traveling so much I haven&rsquo&helli…Read More
2018-01-28 18:10
My friend Judy introduced me to her friend Mimi who lives in Saigon (and works for an incredible charity against human trafficking). As we were heading to Hoi An, she insisted we try&nb&hell…Read More
2017-12-17 01:03
Two years ago, I went to Japan with Stewart for my birthday around Cherry Blossom season. We are both absolute ramen fanatics and have searched for the best spots for this incredible hearty… Read More
2017-10-14 00:39
When I used to go to NY it was always for work and didn’t have time to see my friends. When I decided to leave my job, I booked a trip to NY to see friends. My dear friend Ilka… Read More
2017-10-03 03:16
My friend Val picked Loring Place with advice from her sister who is food obsessed like me. The menu is incredible-one of those menus that creates stress because I want to eat eve… Read More
2017-08-27 18:24
One of my favorite weekend activities is going to brunch after a good workout session (my friend Kat who was landing that morning threatened to break our friendship when she heard I was at… Read More
2017-07-19 01:01
After a family packed trip to Austria, Stewart and I took 3 days to relax. After a lot of back and forth on the planning and where to go we decided to head to the Tyrol Mountains (borde… Read More
2017-06-30 17:04
When my friend Javier came to town recently, we made plans to meet up for coffee on a Saturday morning. Javi then told me we needed to change to a different Blue Bottle location so we could… Read More
2017-06-03 14:00
On the ongoing quest to find a restaurant we love on the Westside of LA we booked AR Cucina as we had brunch at their sister restaurant Akasha and really liked it.
Service was a bit slow to… Read More
2017-05-27 00:01
There is a wave of euphoria around foods with charcoal and it appearing in ice creams, drinks etc. So Charcoal, in Venice is right on trend! Their menu has many charcoal dishes as well… Read More
2017-05-08 01:28
We tried to have dinner at The Mar Vista a few weeks back on a Wednesday night and the restaurant was jammed and buzzing and the wait would have been over an hour so we went to Little Fatty… Read More
2017-04-24 13:40
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2017-04-22 16:38
Someone told me about Felix and mentioned the excitement surrounding its opening. I immediately booked a table as I have been craving tasty Italian food and searching for new spots in LA. Fe… Read More
2017-04-19 04:57
My friend Oli invited us recently for a Ragtop Fern’s BBQ party at his house with his food and art friends. We met ages ago as we sat next to each other at dinner at in San Francisco… Read More
2017-03-20 00:42
I booked Kali as soon as I started reading great reviews about it. Johnathan Gold from the Los Angeles Times for example voted it #2 Best restaurant in LA. The date was still a wh… Read More
2017-03-20 00:15
I came to London for a single day this year and managed to somehow find the time to squeeze one good meal in on a Sunday night before a crazy day of meetings on the Monda… Read More
2017-02-05 03:08
I moved to Los Angeles from London (hardest move ever) and have been so busy in the new job that I get home very late and am way too exhausted to write my blog. It makes me so sad not to be… Read More
2017-01-29 16:03
After an absolutely amazing dinner at Alter we met the owner Javier and his beautiful wife and discussed our love for food and traveling over wine. He told me he had a bakery in Brickell and… Read More
2017-01-23 02:17
I had heard from several people how delicious Monteverde was and I decided to take my mom there on the night we had in Chicago alone – we were there for Thanksgiving with Stewart&rsquo&hell…Read More
2016-12-09 20:00
I love burgers which may come as a surprise to most of my friends, as they probably have never seen me eating one. We eat out often and unless The burger is meant to be the best dish on a me… Read More
2016-12-08 16:53
I can’t explain why I have been so intrigued to go to 26 Grains. Maybe it’s the fact I am a porridge addict? My go to lazy dinner at home is porridge with bananas and blueberries… Read More
2016-10-20 16:23
It is amazing what happens in London – you have close friends and you plan on seeing them often. You part ways by saying “we should do this more often” and suddenly six mon… Read More
2016-10-20 10:27
After some Oktoberfest action (beer drinking at Bierschenke) we debated where to go for dinner in Shoreditch. Sadly we are not in east London often enough and wanted something with a fun vib… Read More
2016-10-17 19:36
After enduring both a pilates and a yoga class, we felt like we deserved some delicious brunch. We were in Notting Hill and naively thought we could find easily somewhere tasty to eat, but t… Read More
2016-10-12 14:30
When we went to Counter Culture, The Dairy’s tiny adjacent sister restaurant I’ve been wanting to try the food at The Dairy as the two dishes our hostess smuggled from their kitc… Read More
2016-10-05 21:17
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2016-10-05 21:15
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2016-10-05 08:14
I was in LA on a business trip but thankfully my co-workers are as obsessed with food as I am – is that possible? We had three dinner reservations and went back and forth all day on wh… Read More
2016-09-26 17:00
I’ve been trying to get together with my friend Filippo (editor of http://www.theupcoming.co.uk/) and his girlfriend Laura for ages. I actually haven’t seen them in a year which… Read More
2016-09-02 15:11
I LOVE The Palomar, so when I read that they had opened The Barbary, a new restaurant in Covent Garden it instantaneously jumped to the top of my list of must try restaurants. They don&rsquo&hell…Read More
2016-08-29 16:43
I really like Pachamama, so when I read that Adam Rawson had opened a new spot in Chelsea called Chicama, I immediately made a resi for a dinner with our friends Shane and Ashleigh. I… Read More
2016-08-24 17:40
This post is a bit out of order, as we actually went to Eleven Madison Park in June 2016. I have been travelling so much that I haven’t been able to stop and write a proper, thoughtful… Read More
2016-08-21 15:39
My friend Emily is moving to London in January and was stopping by for a week of work and reconnaissance. She suggested the chicken dinner at Hélène Darroze at The Connaught Ho… Read More
2016-08-13 13:53
I LOVE Poke! I first tried it in Hawaii a long time ago and it immediately became my favourite Hawaiian food (yeah, not Spam!). Last year I went to San Francisco and one of our best dinners… Read More
2016-08-03 14:49
I booked dinner at Foley’s Tasting Kitchen as soon as I first read about it, and counted the days till our dinner. Foley’s kitchen is headed up by Head Chef Mitz V… Read More
2016-08-02 12:13
I love Japanese food and am in a constant search for more Japanese places to go in London. But sadly Engawa disappointed and won’t enter my Japanese hall of fame that includes UMU a… Read More
2016-07-30 17:31
I miss Asia terribly! I used to visit 6-8 times per year in my previous job and now I don’t go so often. Luckily I had several meetings in HK after a few days in China and of course im… Read More
2016-07-30 17:31
I miss Asia terribly! I used to visit 6-8 times per year in my previous job and now I don’t go so often. Luckily I had several meetings in HK after a few days in China and of course im… Read More
2016-07-18 16:14
I booked a business lunch at the Nomad as I had not been there in a while, and after my interview with Daniel Humm and Will Guidara from Eleven Madison Park, I decided it was time to go back… Read More
2016-07-07 13:18
When we were staying at the absolutely gorgeous Hotel Mas Azulli we asked for a recommendation of some of the best restaurant in Figueres and we were given a few options. When we got to… Read More
2016-07-07 12:28
When I first decided to start a blog, I named it SamStewartEtc as I was hoping my friends who love food as much as I do would write posts about their meals and I would publish them on the si… Read More
2016-07-04 16:04
As soon as we settled on going to Spain for my mother’s 70th birthday, I immediately started booking the restaurants I really wanted to try, including Asador Etxebarri and Celler Ca… Read More
2016-06-27 11:25
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When my mother asked me to travel with her for a week as her 70th birthday gift, I struggled a bit on deciding where to go. I wanted to go somewhere great but not to a place… Read More
2016-05-26 11:22
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We moved to Parsons Green six months ago and despite loving Japanese food, we had not tried Koji, an adorable restaurant next to Hally’s, which is one of the best brunc… Read More
2016-05-16 18:36
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My friend Kay lives in Highgate and had told me for a while about The Pudding and Pie Club which her neighbours have recently launched and host once or twice a month. We fina… Read More
2016-05-15 15:39
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It had been a while since we were last at Chiltern Firehouse and we had to cancel a booking a few months back as I had an awful fever. We had plans with our friends Paul and… Read More
2016-05-12 19:47
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I hate admitting it, but a raving review can influence my decision to move the restaurant to the top of my “must visit” spots list. The Dairy in Clapham had been… Read More
2016-05-08 18:15
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I absolutely hate when my food expectations are way off and a restaurant disappoints, even more so when it is expensive. Sadly, Bonhams was one of those cases. I had heard gr… Read More
2016-05-07 07:13
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I had heard of Casa Cruz at some point and added it to my constantly evolving list of restaurants that I want to try. During a business meeting recently, someone said that th… Read More
2016-04-29 11:49
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Best Brunch in Fulham and Parsons Green
We moved to Parsons Green around six months ago and, even though we loved the convenience of Kensington and my commute to work is not… Read More
2016-04-22 17:25
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Two and a half years ago I fell down while skiing and fractured my shoulder. Personally, I blame it on getting distracted by a kid that I had to dodge and not at all on my me… Read More
2016-04-22 13:58
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ThirstyHubby (aka Stewart) found Hotel Jagdgut Wachtelhof when searching Small Luxury Hotels in Europe and it looked so adorable that we decided to venture to the Ski Amade a… Read More
2016-04-22 06:10
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2016-04-08 11:14
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Oliver Maki was a case of low food expectations. I had read very few positive things about the restaurant and days before the dinner, I started reading very negative comments… Read More
2016-04-05 13:07
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I have been to Yashin several times in Kensington as it was very close to our old flat but I had not got around to trying their sister restaurant, Yashin Ocean House. Now tha… Read More
2016-03-30 10:40
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I had a business dinner with some of my all-time favourite investors, who over time have also become good friends. They love Indian food and will usually go to Gymkhana tw… Read More
2016-03-19 14:08
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I am always seeking for great Japanese restaurants in London, and recently I was chatting about Ikeda with someone at the gym (es, I would balloon with all the food I eat if… Read More
2016-03-18 18:55
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Bedford Post Inn is a cute eight-room hotel owned by Richard Gere located over an hour from NYC. When we booked our dinner at Blue Hill at Stone Barns, friends suggested we s… Read More
2016-03-15 17:29
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Frenchie is probably one of the most talked about new openings in London, as the original outpost in Paris is always on all the must eat Paris lists.
I had never been to the… Read More
2016-03-13 13:13
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Ahhhh, Blue Hill at Stone Barns, we finally meet! I have been wanting to go to Blue Hill at Stone Barns for years, but scheduling was a bit complicated as we needed to be in… Read More
2016-03-11 11:40
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My friend Manuela from Brazil was recently visiting London on her way to a retreat with her guru in India, and we finally had a chance to catch-up. We have not seen each othe… Read More
2016-03-07 22:36
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I have had several meals at Michael White’s spots in New York and had mixed experiences, some of which I liked ( Marea) and some which were just ok so Vauclus… Read More
2016-02-29 21:01
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Spot Dessert BarI LOVE Israeli food and it has become very popular in London, largely thanks to Yotam Ottolenghi. He groomed several chefs who have moved on to open spots lik… Read More
2016-02-29 17:41
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I am an Ippudo NY addict but sadly (for me) the waits can be long, and if I happen to be midtown, their branch in that area is not as good as the original on 4th Avenue. We w… Read More
2016-02-27 18:36
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During a busy day of back-to-back meetings at a conference, I arranged to have a work lunch outside the meeting rooms to avoid a box sandwich lunch and actually enjoy the foo… Read More
2016-02-23 22:55
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It is hard to find a better example of food expectations than 50 Days of Adria, the Albert Adria pop up at Hotel Café Royal in London. Albert Adria (Ferran’s you… Read More
2016-02-17 14:01
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When we moved to London in June 2013, I started hearing of a lot of neighbourhoods that I had never heard of before, such as Chiswick (as one of my work colleagues lives ther… Read More
2016-02-13 08:50
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I used to watch Chef Jun Tanaka consistently beating other chefs on a TV show called Chopped I used to watch when we lived in the US. What is better than brainless but e… Read More
2016-02-08 18:03
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My friends Kay and Georgia immediately suggested a Sunday roast dinner when we began planning our pre Manchester United versus Chelsea match day activities. Since we are all… Read More
2016-01-30 12:43
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When my father, wife and niece booked a trip to visit us for a long weekend, I wanted to take them for high tea at The Wolseley before the theatre. It was my niece’s fi… Read More
2016-01-27 11:29
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I had a business lunch recently, and I booked 45 Jermyn Street Restaurant as it is close to the office and I had also heard that it was the perfect business lunch type spot… Read More
2016-01-22 17:26
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It’s hard to find a better way to spend the day than spending it at the Manoir aux Quat’Saisons Cooking School. We went last year, which makes this an extremely b… Read More
2016-01-22 17:20
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I had been to Manoir aux Quat’Saisons once before for an amazing all-day cooking class with Stewart, and at that time, apart from stuffing our faces with all the deli… Read More
2016-01-18 14:45
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Peyote was another restaurant we had been meaning to go for a long time in our eternal endeavour to find good Mexican food in London. But sadly, Peyote won’t enter t… Read More
2016-01-15 12:25
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In 2015, Sexy Fish had ambitions on becoming the Chiltern Firehouse of two years ago, with all the buzz surrounding it, and absolutely impossible to get a table. The differen… Read More
2016-01-12 18:20
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When we went to Rebelle, we popped into Pearl & Ash before dinner for a drink. We tried to get a table for that evening as we were not particularly inspired by the menu a… Read More
2016-01-07 17:35
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Carbone NYC has been on my priority list for a long time but somehow, other places have always preceded it. Finally we booked it for a dinner with my favourite lawyers, and b… Read More
2016-01-05 12:52
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It is always extremely fun to dine with our friends Trevor and Robert with whom we went to Costa Rica for the New Year last year, and a meal at The Clam NYC was highly approp… Read More
2015-12-23 14:31
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I read about L’Amico NYC and booked it as soon as reservations became available, 30 days in advance. I then heard about it from three of my friends we had plans and whe… Read More
2015-12-22 10:05
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My friend Colin in London knows how much I love soup dumplings. He also knows that I have been on an endless search to find good or even just decent ones in London, and sadly… Read More
2015-12-22 10:05
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My friend Colin in London knows how much I love soup dumplings. He also knows that I have been on an endless search to find good or even just decent ones in London, and sadly… Read More
2015-12-20 19:11
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My friend Danielle had heard great things about Rebelle and was supposed to go last time she was in NY but had to cancel, so I booked it for our trip. As the dinner approache… Read More
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