Need a little Christmas pick-me-up?
Last week when I was in Wellington I had a great gastronomy experience at Louis Sergeant’s Restaurant in Wellington. It’s on Featherston Street, behind Kirkcaldie and Stains (soon to be David Jones). The chef de patisserie, Louis Sergeant is a French trained chef and from the north of France. Until 2014 he was the head chef de patisserie […]
An unexpected find……
When a friend suggested we drive over the Crown Range from Arrowtown, on a gloomy, wet day for lunch at Florence’s Food Store and Café I was ambivalent…until I got there. This incredible restaurant / deli / homeware store on the outskirts of Wanaka is a foodie’s destination. The bitter wind had us heading indoors […]
Authentic, cheap Italian in NYC
I found this little Italian restaurant, Rafele, on a foodie tour I did in Greenwich Village, New York recently. The food was tasty, authentic and very reasonably priced. When I googled it on trip advisor I was surprised to see it’s rated 14 out of 11,362 restaurants in NY but then again I wasn’t – it’s excellent. […]