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#JKTravel2015: Los Angeles – Where We Ate: Brunch Edition

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Brunch!

Food, glorious food.

It goes without saying that food is a huge, huge part of my travel experience, and so it should come as no surprise to you that I’m devoting an entire post several posts to it. With a few exceptions (namely the two restaurants participating in my west vs east burger challenge), I’ll be posting about all the other meals I had in the next two posts, from breakfast to supper and everything in between. I’ll admit, most places did not lend themselves to result in good photography, especially for dinner with how dimly lit the restaurants were, but Karrie and I tried our best!

Do enjoy – I can tell you with certainty that we did! 🙂

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England 2014: Day 6 – St. Paul’s, Duck & Waffle, and More

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Hi folks!

Today, we’re heading to The City, where we got to see St. Paul’s Cathedral, Leadenhall Market, and dine at Duck & Waffle, before dropping by the Museum of London, then finally the Tate Britain right next to our hotel.

St. Paul's, featuring the London Eye in the distance. (Nikon S9700)
St. Paul’s, featuring the London Eye in the distance. (Nikon S9700)

In spite of some threatening grey clouds, the weather continued to hold wonderfully for us, and by some miracle would continue to do so as our vacation carried on. Let’s go, shall we? Read More »

England 2014: Food Post – Dinner by Heston Blumenthal

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Welcome to the first of a few posts that will segue from my travel diaries, all devoted to food.

I spent a pretty penny on this trip on some special meals, and this post is the first: the Two Michelin-starred Dinner by Heston Blumenthal. Located inside the Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park, Dinner opened in 2011 as The Fat Duck’s city sibling, with a historical slant. Its approach to food is that every dish has been made in the past – decades, sometimes centuries ago. Given my food history interests, plus the fact that I didn’t have to travel out to Bray (and spend over £200 per person) at The Fat Duck, Dinner was perfect for me!

Every menu is "sealed" by a Dinner logo, and inside each one is a different historical factoid you then get to keep. (iPhone 5)
Every menu is “sealed” by a Dinner logo, and inside each one is a different historical factoid you then get to keep. (iPhone 5)

Reservations at Dinner open 90 days ahead on a rolling basis, and as you can imagine, book up almost instantaneously, so I had my alarm set for exactly 3 months prior to July 31st, and as soon as it became available, I booked us in for that evening. Sure enough, when I checked back the next day to perhaps move the reservation a bit later, it was already booked out! So if you want to go to Dinner — schedule it, stat. Read More »