Showing posts with label Inside. Show all posts
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Friday, April 20, 2012

Inside Boston Travel Guide: Barbara Lynch loves truffle and spicy noodles

Influential chef Barbara Lynch has six Boston restaurants, including No. 9 Park, Menton and drink (one of our Favorite bars in the United States). Lynch shows here, where their city at the best spicy Dan Dan noodles, bar food, to find shopping and boutique hotel.


Boston Travel Guide: MistralBoston Travel Guide: Mistral. Photo © Kristin dough.

My go-to place for pizza is usually Mistral on Sunday. Oh my God, there is with a Grilled pizza - believe it truffled mashed potatoes and beef Carpaccio, which is really good or not. There is also a spicy tomato one with cheese. They are large, flat Grilled pizza.

Boston Travel Guide: SofraBoston Travel Guide: Sofra. Photo © Janice Goldsmith.

Days out, it's Mistral, or Sofra, the bakery in Cambridge. Sometimes I say that Cambridge is a little more Boston on fire, but it exactly right, the bridge is. Ana Sortun (Oleana) has hummus bar, so that you can select it six or seven elements: their hummus, shredded beets with tzatziki and raisins, chicken and lamb shawarma. Her husband has Siena farms and the Greens are so good, so I get always a big salad. It could be beautiful lettuce, watermelon radishes, herbs, with vinaigrette all barely touched.

Boston Travel Guide: Myers + ChangBoston Travel Guide: Photo courtesy of Myers + Chang.

With my friends, we have always a Myers + Chang night. Spicy peanut Dan Dan noodles - gotta have them. I have the scallion pancakes and pork buns have.

Boston Travel Guide: ScampoBoston Travel Guide: Scampo. Photo © Eric Levin.

Lydia Shire is an elephant ear-walking pizza that is really good. It's like a flatbread. Some nights it would have only cheese and white truffle. The wine list and pasta are also great as Pasta Carbonara.

You have been through just a major renovation, so at the bar at the Pigalle is always fun. I'll what cooking chef Marc Orfaly. I try to tell him not too heavy. He has always interesting salads, French fries and Tartar on the bar menu.

If I really want an espresso, I go still in our small Italy at the northern end. The cappuccino and espresso are on right. The atmosphere is super, especially in good weather.

Boston Travel Guide: Strip T'sBoston Travel Guide: Strip T photo © Rex Dean.

There is a place outside of Boston in Watertown called strip T the boss, Tim Maslow, worked at Momofuku in New York. The graphics are really cool - the logo is a strip of bacon - and when you enter, you walk through a small Deli and things in this back room where he makes kind David Chang.

Boston Travel Guide: XV BeaconBoston Travel Guide: XV beacon. Photo courtesy of XV Beacon Hotel.

It is a boutique hotel and the rooms are nice. It is in the heart of Beacon Hill, so you can walk everywhere. You can walk for large purchases to Newbury Street. Boston common and the frog are right there with ice skating pond in the winter. And it is just great hospitality. When I have visitors, they remind the staff.

Boston Travel Guide: Louis BostonBoston Travel Guide: Louis Boston. Photo © Eric Levin / courtesy of Louis.

I love you go always Louis for clothing and other interesting things, like furniture - to Brimfield antiques - books, magazines. Their new space on the water is awesome, and there is a large restaurant on the first floor named Sam's

For modern home were this shop where is South end.

This is another great little home load, where Jane Miller makes most of their furniture.

Boston Travel Guide: The Institute of Contemporary ArtBoston Travel Guide: the Institute of contemporary art. Photo © Iwan Baan.

For a Museum Day love I totally the ICA; I love the store, and the curator of awesome. In the summer they have grilled burgers, and you sit right on the water. There are also the Boston Harborwalk, so you can by the ICA at the northern end then have foot and coffee or pastries, or o ya go and have sushi.

Boston Travel Guide: Barbara LynchBarbara Lynch name their must try dishes. Photo © Justin Ide.

No. 9 Park Plum-filled gnocchi with foie gras beurre Blanc and toasted almonds.

Menton Fresh lobster from the shell taken and wrapped in Kataifi.

Butcher's shop Steak tartare with truffle Aioli. The secret ingredient in the Interior is like a spicy simple syrup with spicy tomato paste, a little vinegar and sugar.

B & G oysters Lobster roll.

Insider Boston Travel Guide: Barbara Lynch Loves Truffles and Spicy Noodles

Influential chef Barbara Lynch shares their Boston Travel Guide. Photo © Alamy.


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Friday, January 6, 2012

Great Outside, Great Inside - Hiking and Gourmet Food - Enjoy!


Taking a walking/hiking holiday or short break is of course a healthy, refreshing way of really appreciating the beauty and sights of a new environment. As we mentioned in our previous post, there are many advantages of doing this with a local guide. But one, very significant advantage that will actually be more relevant AFTER the walking is knowing the best places to EAT - and in Mallorca you are spoilt for choice.

Mallorca through the centuries has always had many cultural influences - many times brought by conquering armies and more recently through a more civilised source with tourism. These cultural influences have also brought their culinary influences and Mallorca is now home to hundreds of different styles and tastes from Fast Food to the highest levels of gourmet cuisine.

Five restaurants have been awarded the prestigious Michelin Star in Mallorca for 2011 - two of them being new awards. But great food is not limited to the excellence of the Michelin chefs. Mallorca has a strong history of excellent food and also a very versatile use of the unlikeliest food items particularly from it's farming roots of previous centuries.

The pig was and still is a popular ingredient to many local dishes including the now famous sobrasada; the very popular roasted suckling pig and also variations of the Frito Mallorquin which is a descendant of the poorest families' staple diet in olden days.

Pa amb oli is another Mallorquin favourite with varied platters. These are usually cold dish choices with either a meat or cheese selection (but can also be fish) served with a thinly sliced rustic Mallorcan bread; olive oil; ramallet (spreading) tomatoes, garlic and sea salt. Simply crush the thin skinned 'ramallet' tomatoes with a garlic clove, sea salt and a generous glug of olive oil and serve on a slab of rustic bread. A variety of toppings can then be added from slices of locally cured hams, chorizos and sobrasadas or cheese. This meal choice is particularly popular through the summer and can last for hours along with great conversation and some superb Mallorquin wines.

The Mediterranean diet also includes many fresh salads and there are lots of local markets serving a wonderful array of home grown fruits and vegetables. Together with the local olive oil and the now famous Flor de Sal flavoured sea salts from Ses Salines - another great meal combination.

Fresh seafood is also very popular in Mallorca. The fishing ports of Andratx, Soller and Palma itself still holds fresh fish markets daily, direct from the returning fishing boats. The age old custom of the fishermen sitting repairing their nets with the gulls floating overhead still continues today. Everybody has their special fish restaurant to recommend but my favourite (and many others for over 30 years) is Casa Manolo's in Ses Salines.

Preparing for your visit to Mallorca there are many authoritative web sites now dedicated purely to your gastronomic enjoyment whilst here on the island. Our recommendation for the widest and most current range of information, news and even video interviews with the chefs and owners of the hundreds of venues you can visit is the award winning Sky Blue Mallorca




Do not be daunted by this incredible choice and the gastronomic delights that await you in Mallorca - your guides are well equipped to help you make the best choices during your stay. But we have to warn you - you'll definitely need to return for more!!

Mallorca Hiking

Roger Swain
Passionate about all things Mallorca
roger@mallorcaselect.com