Tag: new york
Star “Deconstructivist” Architect, Frank Gehry RIP
Frank Gehry, the Canadian-American star architect, died earlier this month (December 2025) at the age of 96. We’ve come across and admired many of his iconic buildings on our travels and have featured them on the blog before; here, we’re bringing together a selection of those photos as a small tribute. Spacious and shimmering, this
Our trips 2014 – part 2
H a p p y 2015 ! Now that we are back from our year-end vacation, we are taking a look back at some of the places we visited last year. This is the second of two posts; Part 1 is here. The photos are organized in reverse chronological order. Some of the trips are business trips
Xi’an Famous Foods 西安名吃, NYC
While I was in NY in January … I thought the last time I was in Chinatown, there was a line out the door of this tiny restaurant – Xi’an Famous Foods – Western Chinese Cuisine. A branch of this restaurant in St. Mark’s Place has received great reviews from Zagat. It received the following
RedFarm, NYC
On my recent business trip to NYC, the team had a very busy schedule. But we rewarded ourselves with food, we crashed without a reservation, Nobu 57 (which was so crowded and noisy like a Chinatown dim sum restaurant on a Sunday morning) and Spice Market (which was much nicer and we hung around till