Where does the line between food and art fall? That’s the take home from our meal at Grant Achatz’s Alinea. A little self reflection project, to chew over if you will. From the street the ‘best restaurant in North America’ looks and feels more like a gallery. It’s nondescript dark grey brick building with deep […]
Travel
High enough in Colorado to make your ears pop, some of Vail’s vistas are so cutsey sweet they could easily stand in for framed watercolours for sale at Walmart. For us Vail is a pit stop for lunch and a leg stretch in a road trip that’s taking us from San Diego to Chicago. Today’s […]
It’s been 18 months since we were last in Las Vegas. The last time it was the depths of winter. It was Christmas, though we were pretending it wasn’t. Vegas was a strange half place stuck between glimmering lights and the depths of darkness. The streets were all but deserted, bar the kind of people […]
Blue Crush has a lot to answer for. On the drive over the border to Mexico, at the start of a week long surf camp in Baja, it’s freezing cold and we’re packed tightly into the cabin of a truck with four strange men. The owner of the camp is a man of a large […]
A couple of weekends ago I ducked down to Daylesford. That’s ‘Spa country’ in the Macedon region of Victoria. I’m not sure if the urge was fueled by the atmospheric ads featuring the skin scrapingly beautiful Isabel Lucas; the lure of seeing my well thumbed copy of Alla Wolf-Tasker’s luminous ‘Lake House’ cookbook come to […]