Villa Nova de Gaia, although a separate town from Porto proper, is home to all the major Port cellars in Portugal. Ricardo already described a morning touring the Croft cellars, so this is a sort of continuation of where we suggest you have lunch afterwards – Bogani Café.
The restaurant is located downhill from the wine cellars, [...]

Colonia de Sacramento is a small town located a one-hour ferry ride away from Buenos Aires, across the Río de la Plata. Historically, it has switched hands between the Portuguese who founded it and the Spanish numerous times. The Barrio Historico (the historic neighborhood) is now a UNESCO world heritage site. It has small cobblestone streets [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]