Memories of Bouchon: Red rice pilaf with candied hazelnuts and grapes

As regular readers of this blog know, one of my favourite things to do is travel. I also love discovering new dishes on my travels and bringing them back home to recreate a little piece of a vacation in my everyday life.  A dish I fell in love with on our recent trip to California … Read more

California Road Trip 2010: Playing the reservations game in San Francisco

See that view up there? Well it’s what you get to see when you are lucky enough to be seated at the window seats at The Slanted Door in San Francisco’s Ferry Building.  And the view I ultimately really wanted to have when we dined there on our brief stop in San Francisco last month.  … Read more

Bouchon (Yountville)

About half-way through our California Road Trip, we found ourselves in Napa, in Yountville, to be exact.  We stayed at the Napa Valley Railway Inn, a charming “hotel” whose rooms are converted railway carraiges. Highly recommend it and it’s very reasonably priced too. And no, we didn’t eat at The French Laundry. Why?  Well apart … Read more