Tag: restaurants
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Pest-Buda, Buda, Budapest
We have a couple more posts about Budapest – recap – we were there in November last year for a long weekend … click here, here and here to see some samples of earlier posts. Pest-Buda Vendéglő (Pest-Buda Inn) is located on the Buda side of the city. It is described in a local guidebook…
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Bordó Bisztró, Budapest
We ate our first dinner here by ourselves after Chris’s conference ended. It was Halloween weekend. The bistro is located at the corner of Nagymező Street and Király Street, a block or so from Andrássy út in the center of Budapest. We avoided a whole line of clearly touristy establishments on Liszt Ferenc tér (friendly host…
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Brasserie Bahnhof Basel
When it comes to finding a place to eat at a train station, the Brasserie at the Basel train station is hard to beat. I stumbled into this place recently. This brasserie is located in the Basel SBB train station on the Swiss side of the border and not the Basel Badischer Bahnhof which handles the German…
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The Magazine, London
The Magazine is a newish restaurant that is housed in an extension of the classically-proportioned Serpentine Sackler Gallery in Kensington Gardens, central London. I(Chris) was staying in Lancaster Gate. JL came over to meet me and we wandered into the park and stopped there for an iced latte in a sunny afternoon. The contrast between the…
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Sabiá @ Vila Madalena, Sao Paulo
While I was wandering around in Vila Madalena, looking for some galleries, I came across this bar/restaurant – Sabiá. See this earlier post about Vila Madalena. It had all its windows opened. It was bright and airy inside. The bar is at the end of the dining room. One wall is covered by a huge black-and-white mural.…
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Interlaken – part 2
Continuing with our long weekend in Interlaken … Interlaken’s hotels are expensive and they are often fully booked. Our hotel is BeauSite located in the next town – Unterseen. It is a family-owned hotel which has a nice little seating area in front and ample parking spaces. It was impossible to find parking in Interlaken…