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The States
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Cafe Boulud: In NY, French cuisine is not rare, but the authentic spirit is often lacking.
We love French food. (Do you know anyone who doesn’t?) In this world of bastardized menus with mashed-up cuisines, authentic French cuisine in a fine restaurant setting is rare. But when it happens? That means, at that moment, with that meal, things are right in the world. Such is Cafe’ Boulud, a Daniel NY restaurant,…
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Exploring New Mexico: A Journey Through Taos and Its Pueblo
While Santa Fe gets all the focus, touring New Mexico is a trip you need to make time for. It embraces and unifies all the elements of any great tour of America’s grand Southwest– nature’s glory, amazing Indian cultural highlights and their conqueror’s history. This trip was to Santa Fe but we decided to take…
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Sage, French restaurant in Ft Lauderdale and the #1 duck…really.
Sage of Ft. Lauderdale: they say they have the #1 best selling duck. There’s good reason. We had gone to Sage, a French restaurant on route 1 near the Whole Foods. We recall that the Coq Au Vin and the bouillabaisse was quite good, but the latter had too much saffron in it which overwhelmed…
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Best Thai in any city: Lemongrass! (In Ft Lauderdale for sure!)
Thai food may be our favorite Asian cuisine. Yes, we love sushi…but that is in a different class of Asian food. The menu, with its almost confusing mix of seafood, sushi, Thai food and an odd eclectic assortment of dishes, can be a bit daunting. The usual reaction is to ask why such a broad…
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The best diner in Ft Lauderdale (and we know diners!)
Egg ‘n You…been around since 1956 and as diners go, and we have gone to several in Ft Lauderdale, and come from a diner city (Philly) this is a true gem. We have been there for breakfast, lunch and dinner, and while it is diner food, it is the highest quality. What does that mean…
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Ft. Lauderdale: Grill 66…superlative steak and fish, on the edge of pretentious but just misses it!
When we visit Florida, we tend to make Ft. Lauderdale our base, we say this for reasons not worth going into other than to explain to readers why restaurants in this city versus others are the focus of reviews. (Though there are an enormous number and range of restaurants). Of the 20 or more restaurants…
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