In June, during our visit to Savannah, we ate at Husk’s new location there. The Charleston original is extremely well-known and we were very excited to try out the Savannah location. Each location uses ingredients as local as possible throughout the menu. We had a wonderful experience and so am including Husk Savannah in my New Bites series. Continue reading
We’ve been asked a lot if we are taking a “babymoon.” We thought about it, talked about it, researched all kinds of different places but in the end we decided not to take a big trip this year. As avid travelers, this was a little hard but ultimately we didn’t want to spend the money, I didn’t want to go very far on a long plane ride while pregnant, I wanted to save PTO at work, and we did have an EPIC trip to Japan about a month before I got pregnant. And earlier last year we went to Cuba and I went to India, and a bunch of US weekend destinations in between. Not like we don’t travel!
So we decided to spend time with friends and family on different trips to different places with the longest being 9 days visiting Charlotte and Outer Banks, NC, and Savannah, GA at the end of May/beginning of June. It was a lot of fun – even with several days of rain in the mix. Continue reading
On a recent trip to Asheville, we tried a new restaurant from the same folks as one of our favorite dining establishments, Curate. Nightbell is an American-style restaurant focused on using Appalachian ingredients. We made the reservation the night before, so we were eating early at 5.15!! 😉 Continue reading
This year, Sean and I purchased an Atlanta restaurant passbook filled with buy one, get one deals at awesome restaurants across the city. One of the first places we decided to check out was a midtown neighborhood pizzeria called Varuni Napoli that we’d been wanting to try for a while. Continue reading
I’ll start by saying that Osaka food is sooooo good. Not that the food in Kyoto, Tokyo or Kobe wasn’t because it was. It’s just food in Osaka kind of exceeded our expectations and we had some really memorable experiences, bites and flavors that started with a cooking class on Thanksgiving day. Continue reading
My mom went to watch the condo, dog and cat of her best friend in Chicago while he went to India and Sri Lanka for a month in January. He has a great place north of Uptown in this awesome, ethnic neighborhood. I took the long MLK, Jr. Day weekend to go up and visit for a fun mother-daughter weekend in the Windy City. Continue reading
We arrived in Kyoto on Monday evening after taking the Shinkansen high-speed train from Tokyo. Kyoto was incredible and I described all the beautiful sights and activities in my post on its temples, etc. This post is all about the FOOD. Kyoto is known as a “foodie” city and its reputation did not disappoint.
Our first night we discovered that the hotel included in our package deal was very far from the center of town – about 30 minutes by car! The room was also minuscule, with the bed again against the wall and almost no room at the end to walk around it. We made the most of our first night be first researching and booking a new hotel in the city center for the next 2 nights, and then finding somewhere nearby for dinner. Continue reading
2017 was an incredible year filled with travel, family, friends, a new job, and lots of delicious food and drink! From the Far East to the Caribbean and across the US of A, tasty and memorable bites filled many days. I was going to list out some honorable mentions but it felt like a cop-out – it’s tough to narrow it down! Here are my top 14 dishes of 2017. Continue reading