The Sea Baron

Iceland isn’t the most popular of countries among the British cabinet office, who wants them to reimburse the £3.6 billion it cost UK taxpayers when Landsbankii collapsed in 2008; as opposed to the £1.3 trillion the UK government itself has cost us through its blind-eye to the looming banking crisis. But Iceland is still an [...]

The Grillhouse

Johannesburg is one of the lesser-travelled tourist destinations in South Africa, despite it being the country’s largest city and one of the most vibrant. That will change with the 2010 World Cup coming to South Africa, as tourists will be plunged into the heartlands of Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town, among others, where the tournament [...]

Ristorante Arnolfo

I’m in a dilemma. I want to write nice things about Arnolfo. It’s a good restaurant. It has two Michelin-stars for goodness sakes. It champions local and regional cuisine and Chef-Patron Gaetano Trovato engineers a modern, haute cuisine twist to everything on the menu. The food is delicate and refined. The setting is glorious, the [...]

Ristorante La Fattoria

Tuscany has for some time been a holiday retreat for the British middleclass. This is not necessarily a bad thing, just an observation. Though I did find it amusing to visit the local Co-Op supermarket in the quiet and nondescript town of Tavarnelle, fifty minutes south of Florence, to find it packed with pale-skinned Brits [...]

Piet de Leeuw

Being the font of all knowledge when it comes to restaurants, I was tasked with locating a suitable dining venue for a friend’s stag night in Amsterdam. For those Americans unfamiliar with the term, a stag night is not an after-dark hunting expedition, but a bachelor party, and they don’t generally involve rifles or dead [...]

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