Grocer

It is a small tragedy when a traveler acquiesces to the ubiquitous fast food outlets when hunger strikes in a foreign city. Hunched over a Big Mac, sliding around in a plastic booth, the lament takes hold that, if only for better knowledge of the city, the meal would a selection of the finest...

Grocer, Lite Bites, Store, Take Away

For a quick lunch or snack, make a beeline for Antico Forno Roscioli near the Campo de Fiori, one of the best bakeries in Rome, offering delicious pizza rossa and bianca, bread, pastries and a hot lunch counter, where the pasta and vegetables are weighed by the pound. Pizza bianca means white pizza and...

Grocer, Pizza, Restaurant

Less than four years after opening its original Turin location, Italian slow-organic food retailer Eataly has opened a Manhattan outlet opposite the Flatiron Building. More sprawling food hall than a farmers market, the outlet is delightfully overwhelming– a cavernous, lively indoor piazza that brings the best of the Mediterranean to Madison Square. Divided into...

Coffee, Grocer, Ice Cream, Pizza, Restaurant, Take Away

In a supermarket landscape dominated by chains, its always refreshingto experience the singular vision of a stand-alone. One such grocer that is holding its own against the Whole Foods of the world is Fox & Obel, a highly-regarded full-service food hall & winery in Chicago. Located convenient to many downtown Chicago hotels in a...

Coffee, Grocer, Lite Bites, Restaurant, Take Away

In an old brick warehouse in one of Montreal’s up and coming areas, the recently opened Le Hangar, the latest outpost of celebrity chef Louis-François Marcotte’s expanding empire has quietly taken Montreal’s already respectable restaurant scene to a new level. Montreal has been moving away from being a one-neighborhood city for many years, and...

Grocer, Nite Spot, Restaurant

Haarlem is an essential day-trip from Amsterdam. This charming and handsome hamlet has all the unique elegance and charm of the capitalwithout the college-kids-and-coffeeshop crowds. The train from Centraal Station takes less than half an hour, and the whole town canbe thoroughly explored in an afternoon. Haarlem is something of a wealthy suburb today,...

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