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Restaurant Filomena, Georgetown, Washington DC: Disappointing

Shortly after arriving in Washington, I decided to step out for lunch between meetings. Being in Georgetown, surrounded by Italian restaurants, I opted to make a reservation at Filomena, a well-known establishment in Washington. https://flic.kr/p/2qnd3hF The concept The concept is simple: a...

Restaurant Pizzeria Salvy: A Pleasant Surprise

For my final lunch in Philadelphia, I was looking for a nice restaurant and stumbled upon a pizzeria located in the Comcast Center, one of the city’s most prestigious towers. The concept A simple concept—an Italian pizzeria with a straightforward menu...

Grezi Buffalo: Perfect service, decent menu

For our first evening in Buffalo, my wife found this restaurant located near our hotel. Here's a look back at a pleasant experience, even if the food could have been better. The concept The concept is that of a gourmet brasserie inspired...

Regina Lucia in Syracuse: contemporary Sicilian cuisine of excellent quality

Regina Lucia in Syracuse offers gourmet contemporary Sicilian cuisine of the highest quality. The perfect balance between a street corner restaurant and a Michelin-starred restaurant. On my second evening in Syracuse, I went down a notch or two...

Cortile Spirito Santo in Syracuse: a refined Sicilian Michelin-starred restaurant

Cortile Spirto Santo in Syracuse, awarded a Michelin star, offers refined Sicilian cuisine of excellent quality and attentive service. To occupy my two evenings in Syracuse, I wanted to try a Michelin-starred restaurant and a simpler gastronomic one, and so...

Capitano Carlton in Melbourne: it doesn’t look like much but the pizzas are very good

Capitano Carlton is a good Italian restaurant that doesn't look like much but serves very good pizzas. Does that mean you have to go that far from the city center to get a pizza? While researching the local culinary...

Spago by Wolfgang Puck, Budapest: an equally successful second experience

For our second stay at Matild Palace, we booked both nights at the Spago restaurant, run by the iconic chef Wolfgang Puck. Although we'd dined at this restaurant before, I can confirm twice that the experience is always excellent....

Restaurant Ottimo, The Ritz-Carlton Budapest: excellent food, service not up to scratch

During our short stay in Budapest before heading on to Debrecen, we decided to have lunch at the restaurant of The Ritz-Carlton, the hotel we were staying in for the night, which offered a new concept in Italian dining. As...

The Purple Pig Chicago: very good, but noisy and with perfectible service

The Purple Pig offers friendly, tasty food in a lively setting, but it didn't quite strike my fancy. Choosing the restaurants for this trip required a bit of organizational work. Since these weren't originally joint vacations, but Olivier and I...