| Landscape littered with new restaurants
Name a more tenuous, terrifying, tight-rope-walking career than being a restaurateur. Even on the Peninsula, where dining out is a pastime second only to collecting BMWs, a restaurant's life span is short, with new eateries sprouting like spring daffodils. This week's changes take place at The Barnyard Shopping Village in Carmel, and include the sale of Bahama Billy's Island Steakhouse. Yes, weeks after restaurateur Bill Lee sold off Bixby's Southwest Grill next door, he signed over the Caribbean-slanted eatery to new owners, Anthony and April Momo from Denver. Another ribbon-cutting took place an olive's throw away as Big Dog Sports Restaurant opened its doors at the space formerly occupied by Sherlock Holmes Pub. The Momos previously owned and operated Cucina Colore, a contemporary Italian restaurant they opened in 1995.
Master Chef Jereme Leung to appear at the World Gourmet Summit ...
Master Chef Jereme Leung will appear as a Guest Chef at The World Gourmet Summit which will take place in Singapore this year between 9 and 28 April. Each April, The World Gourmet Summit (WGS) transforms Singapore into a gastro-tourism capital, as food and wine lovers flock to the city hoping to score tips from internationally renowned master chefs and winemakers. Mr. Leung will be showcasing his talents at three spectacular events. This includes the "A Taste of New China" six course dinner at the Ritz Carlton Millenia on Wednesday 25 April, as well as a three course Gourmet Safari Dinner at Singapore Zoological Gardens on 23, 24, and 26 April. He will also join celebrity chefs at an elegant Charity Dinner at the Fullerton Hotel on 27 April. As the founder of the renowned Whampoa Club at Three on the Bund in Shanghai, Mr.
Gourmet Sandwich Shop Offers Commons Alternative
Spring is finally arriving: Why not celebrate the sun in a caf apropos to the season? Dore's Caf and Market, with fresh food and sprightly dcor, is an ideal lunchtime locale.
Walls awash with lavender, yellow daisies on each table and a comfy lounge area, Dore's has an inviting, airy atmosphere. The restaurant is the perfect place to catch up with friends or curl up with a book.
For three years, Dore's has brought Lewiston a wide selection of breakfast and lunch options. From egg dishes and Panini's to pastries and lattes, the menu is extensive. Portions are reasonably sized but the same can't be said for the prices. While the food may be a delicious break from the typically greasy Lewiston fare, the prices make lunch at Commons more desirable.
Sandwich options include anything from chicken salad to a portabella mushroom Panini.
Traveling In Style
Hard to believe it now, but once upon a time people actually dressed up for air travel. Today, as you know, anything goes. John Mariani, a world-famous food and wine journalist, reminds us in his newsletter The Virtual Gourmet, dressing up for the flight and during your trip has its advantages. One of Mariani’s more thought provoking suggestions in the course of his article is to consider how you look to the concierges, front desk clerks, fine dining restaurant hosts, and others you will encounter in the course of your travel. In one section he writes that showing up at the counter in a jacket and, preferably, a tie can work wonders with the gate and flight attendants in getting you a bit of preferential treatment. While I agree that looking good can help you score little favors, free upgrades seems a rather tall order these days.
Eats of Easton: Maryland town gains a big restaurant rep
Long known to travelers mostly as a gateway to the tony Eastern Shore enclave of St. Michaels, Easton, Md., (population 14,000) has quietly forged a place high on the list of mid-Atlantic foodie destinations. An increasingly adventurous dining clientele in Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia, coupled with a growth in owners of second homes in the area, is driving a mini-boom in fine restaurants. The combination of pedigreed dining haunts and promising new kitchens gives Easton a culinary reputation that is broad and deep. Gourmands can enjoy squab with a foie gras coulis one night and head down the block the next for green Thai bouillabaisse, roasted kangaroo and, after a wine-bar break, a five-course chocolate dessert a few doors away. Those who want to round out a food-centric weekend can get a bellyful of fine barbecue.
Martha Stewart Provides Gourmet Meal To Space Tourist
Lifestyle queen Martha Stewart flew to Kazakhstan over the weekend to watch her reported boyfriend, software magnate Charles Simonyi, become the world's fifth space tourist. Simonyi paid a reported $25 million to take a 13-day journey to the International Space Station (ISS) with two Russian cosmonauts. Stewart, who is rumored to be dating the billionaire Microsoft developer, explored the Kazakh town of Baikonur before providing her man with a tasty meal to take aboard the Soyuz rocket. Stewart, 65, was clearly taken aback by the region's breathtaking landscape saying, "Baikonur is beautiful." (This news article provided by World Entertainment News Network) .
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