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Hàbaluc – the pleasure of eating

Hàbaluc – comida sana and creativa, a healthy and creative cuisine. Its name means “the pleasure of eating” in Aramaic. Colourful interiors with white sails that cover the ceiling, like sitting under a canopy of a tent, it feels rather a circus like, perhaps expressing the creative menu it offers. An outdoor terrace for warm days […]

Al-Shami Restaurant

Favoured by locals, Al-Shami Restaurant offers genuine food with no frills, with amazing views. Hidden within the small market area of the souk of Aqaba, with an entrance from the side alley of Al Raghadan Street, a top floor restaurant with views of the Hussein bin Ali Mosque that looks out to the Red Sea with the border city of […]

The Cave Bar

The Cave Bar occupies a 2000-year-old Nabataean rock tomb near the gates of Petra. Only one cave zoned for commercial use, The Cave Bar, run by adjacent Crowne Plaza Resort behind the Petra Visitor Centre, is part of an ancient tomb carved by the Nabateans. Sandstone walls and seats tucked into what were likely individual burial niches. Like elsewhere […]

Books @ Cafe

Books@Cafe is a quirky place with a bookshop on main entrance with a restaurant above offering decent views of the hillside city of Amman, and a licensed place to drink alcohol and hang out. An outdoor terrace and indoor seating, sheesha pipes and swinging lights. With great views and artsy interiors, this is the place […]

Poklisar Restaurant

At the old port of Dubrovnik sits Poklisar Restaurant, this restaurant-pizzeria-cafe, a family-owned business that serves un-modified items with genuine dishes of the region. Poklisar Restaurant is about simplicity in meals, no need to over flavour or decorates dishes, let the ingredients and items deliver the taste as they are naturally. Leave high expectations behind, this is […]

Well & Bucket

I’ve been to a few places when I crave a taste of the sea, and often places try to be too posh when they serve oysters, but not the Well & Bucket in London‘s Shoreditch High Street. Others are too generic but the Well & Bucket feels more one of a kind – reflected in […]

Palais Jad Mahal

Come to Jad Mahal for dinner and be seduced by the setting and sensual pleasures of belly dancers and fire eaters. We arrived for our reservation at Palais Jad Mahal, recommended by the concierge from the Four Seasons. It was dark and mostly candle lit , we were seated in a lounge area by a smallish […]

Oblix – The Shard

One of London‘s newest landmarks The Shard boasts a top of city eating experience on the 32nd floor at Oblix Restaurant. Dress code of smart-casual, it offers sophisticated, urban, casual dining with some incredible views, if you manage to get a seat next to a window, and offers dishes from a menu of spit roast, […]

London Cocktail Week

More than 250 bars participate in the London Cocktail Week which is held every year in October. Once you obtain your London Cocktail Week wristband you then have free entry into many bars, restaurants and even clubs that participate in the event, who have created a unique drink for the event for only £4 a cocktail. […]

La Tasca: Spanish Tapas Bar

While on a visit to Portsmouth, I visited a chain of Spanish tapas bars in the United Kingdom known as La Tasca. It is the first I have heard or seen of them but made good sense since I was travelling with a friend, and what better way to have a meal than to share […]

The Avenue Diner

A nostalgic diner with a cool vibe, in business since 1944. The Avenue Diner maintains a loyal clientele, despite being unlicensed and open no later than 4 p.m. Located in the Yorkville and Annex area of downtown Toronto by Davenport Road and Avenue Road, it has an open setting that lets you see your meal being […]

Nova Era Bakery

Tastes and traditions of Portuguese pastries and bread. A family-owned and operated business, established in 1991, Nova Era Bakery is one of the early bakeries in Toronto to offer European-style coffee, bread and pastries to the growing Portuguese community. Maintaining traditional methods of daily handmade, freshly baked bread and pastries, from the famed Portuguese pastel de […]

Fishbar

A few years after it first opened its doors, Fishbar on Ossington Street in Toronto still delivers a fine catch and selection of seafood tapas. The menu reinvents seafood with unique combinations of ingredients that break with tradition. Seafood enthusiasts are certain to taste something new here. The grilled sardines with balsamic reduction and mint pesto […]

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El Superpollo

Great value chicken and chips with a glass of cava. An economic choice and fast food in Sitges, Restaurante El Superpollo has rotisserie chicken served with chips or salad, and choice of soft drink, beer, wine or Cava. Choose from a single piece to a whole chicken, but excellent value for single and group travellers.

Restaurante Alfresco • Lima – Peru

Unique plankton found in the ocean off the coast of Peru is said to make the seafood taste great. It certainly is true of the eating experience at Alfresco Seafood Restaurant in Lima. “In shame, I couldn’t help but ask for the menu again as I wanted more and more!” Not every time I dine […]

Legal Coca tea helps relieve altitude sickness

Often recommended for travellers in the Andes to prevent altitude sickness, its actual effectiveness has never been systematically studied, but legal Coca tea helps relieve altitude sickness locals say. Coca tea, also called mate de coca, is a herbal tea made using the raw leaves of the coca plant, which is native to South America. […]