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.

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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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) [...]

Ay ay ay ay. As any Southern Californian who moves away from home will tell you, the hardest thing about being abroad or even in another state, is not homesickness or missing family or friends…it’s the lack of decent Mexican food! I have resorted to making it myself at home here in Belgium, but my [...]

I know the title offers a bold statement, but it’s true.
Back when I first got to Ghent, I only knew a few things about Belgian cuisine – mussels, fries, chocolate, beer, and…waffles. Almost a year and a half later, I don’t know much else, actually. But what else do you need, really? A delicious and [...]

Portugal is the home of some of the most passionate and beautiful music in the world – the fado. The exact origin of fado is unknown (slave music, seafarers’ laments, Moorish songs?), although it can be traced to the early 1800s. The word fado actually means “fate,” so, as you might be able to imagine, [...]

Everyone knows Geneva for being a cultural, diplomatic, and economic center of Europe, right? People also know Geneva for it’s famous lake and fountain. Maybe even Swiss chocolates? The UN? The Red Cross?…Banks?
Well that’s all fine and dandy, but I didn’t go back to Geneva twice just for that stuff! No, it was the Café [...]

I spent the better part of the year between 2005 and 2006 in Lyon, supposedly the gastronomical capital of France. Well, let me just say that Lyonnais food left much to be desired. That’s probably why my favorite restaurant, apart from an Indian place and a Pakistani place, was a Breton mussels and crêpe house [...]

The Feria de Mataderos is the real deal.
There are other basic Sunday markets in the Buenos Aires neighborhoods of Recoleta, La Boca, and San Telmo where you can get cool jewelry, handcrafts, paintings and caricatures, etc. But the Feria de Mataderos is a real experience and worth the 45-minute bus trip from the center. Colectivo [...]