You will never go hungry on the streets of Amsterdam for lack of restaurants. It seems like every block has at least one. That is actually sometimes the problem. Too many options leads someone like me to start panicking and unable to make up her mind, especially if you are without a guidebook and have [...]
Meat lovers rejoice! If you are in Belgium, you can find delicious ribs within a 30 min train ride of just about anywhere. Amadeus: The Place for Ribs has two locations in Ghent, one in Brussels, and one in Antwerp.
Autumn has arrived in full and has brought the rain with it. And that’s exactly what I had when I went to Vienna a couple of weeks ago: rain, lots and lots of rain. Because of that I had to change my plans in order to spend more time indoors than outdoors. Not a problem [...]
As you may have noticed, we love cemeteries here at Atlas Parasite. Well, another one of our less creepy, but definitely more nerdy, obsessions is libraries! And let me tell you, when I walked into the Amsterdam Public Library last month, I was totally, gleefully nerding out.
Café Slavia, or Kavárna Slavia, is probably the most famous café in Prague. It is located across from the National Theater, and both the café and the theater have been there since 1881. Because of its perfect location by the cultural hotspot, the café naturally became a meeting for artists and intellectuals over the years, [...]
I was only turned on to sushi a few years ago, being forced to eat it by a couple of friends (Jeremy Piven was not one of them) who really wanted to go to a sushi restaurant when we found ourselves shopping in Little Tokyo in Los Angeles. The moment the shrimp tempura roll touched [...]
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Chiara Atik
New York, New York
Where do race, history, and trans-fat all come together in the most happy of marriages? Ben’s Chili Bowl, located right off the U Street/Cardozo in Washington D.C.
Ben’s Chili Bowl has been around for 50 eventful, fraught years. It was opened in 1958, when the (relatively Southern) capitol was still (relatively) [...]
I probably don’t need to convince many people that chocolate is the best thing ever (ladies, am I right?). I for one am a hardcore chocoholic…in fact, the Mayans are my favorite civilization ever because, although they made that crazy calendar everyone’s freaking out about these days, they still gave the world chocolate and I can’t [...]
If you know me at all you know I loves me a good glass of wine. I’ll even take a mediocre glass of wine or a bad glass of wine. I mean, there’s only been one glass of wine I have refused so far, and that’s because it kind of tasted like blood…anyway…
At Wine Steals, [...]
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Maria Romano
San Diego, California
The Victor Emanuel Monument (“Il Vittoriano”) is impossible to miss on a visit to Rome. It is a 230 foot tall temple-like monstrosity in white travertine with massive corinthian columns and a million statues situated in the middle of Piazza Venezia, one of Rome’s main piazze. The monument is dedicated [...]
