Boragó (Santiago)
Boragó has evolved into the Chilean restaurant, focusing on Chilean products and Chilean dishes, which I have long expected would be found here. Almost three thousand miles in length, Chile has a range...
View ArticleCuzco’s Quintas and Picanterías
A quinta in Cuzco is like a huarique in Lima. It is a simple, traditional restaurant that provides regional dishes at local prices. As much as Cuzco has grown and become a global city and home to...
View ArticleNoma Co-founder to Open Gustu in La Paz, Bolivia in April
Gustu, a restaurant and cooking school from Noma co-founder Claus Meyer will open in La Paz, Bolivia this year.
View ArticleWhere to Eat in São Paulo, Brazil in 2013
In terms of restaurants, no city on the South American continent, except for maybe Lima, has as much star power as São Paulo, Brazil’s sprawling inland city of 11 million inhabitants (20 million if you...
View ArticleRestaurant Report: Mirante da Prainha (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Every so often, one comes a dish or a restaurant that is a perfect reflection of place. A bowl of rustic green chile stew with a folded flour tortilla on the side, for example, is a perfect reflection...
View ArticleÁmaz (Lima)
A great Amazonian restaurant is near impossible to create. First off, sourcing ingredients with any regularity in the region is done with hands in prayer. Second, where do you put it? Ideally it would...
View ArticleHartwood (Tulum)
Cooking with fire is the oldest form of cooking. Cave people did it. At the end of 2012 I found my self in Stockholm, Sweden at Niklas Ekstedt’s newly Michelin starred restaurant Ekstedt. Rather than...
View ArticleLa Mar NYC, Now Closed. What Went Wrong & Why it’s Not the End of the World
Gaston Acurio’s first New York restaurant, the 2 year old branch of La Mar Cebicheria, has closed. Don’t fret though. There’s already talk of moving the restaurant to another Manhattan location,...
View ArticleCarmen Ángel & Rob Pevitts’ Go To Restaurants in Medellin
California born, co-chefs Carmen Ángel and Rob Pevitts of restaurant Carmen in El Poblado, and more recently in Cartagena, know their way around Medellin’s very underrated culinary scene. The...
View ArticleWhere to Eat & Drink in Cuzco, Peru Right Now
Cuzco has always been a bit of a wild card in terms of restaurants. While quality products are there, few restaurants have really put them to good use and instead have tried to serve tourist friendly...
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