Category: USA

Three eats in and around San Francisco

I have been to the fine city of San Francisco a couple of times now, and while I have eaten in many places, I’m just going to give you selection of three places I have tried most recently and tell you why I like them. There is obviously so much food to choose from, but…

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Exploring the ‘Funk Zone’ in Santa Barbara

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Devina Divecha (@devinadivecha) Those who know me well know that I always try booking food tours when I travel, but for once I had absolutely no say in this one. While visiting friends in California in November/December, a road trip was planned to Santa Barbara from…

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When in New York, try Foods of NY Tours!

I was a day or two in New York already before it hit me: why had I not explored the option of going on a food tour??! I needed to fix this, pronto. I started Googling frantically before I picked on Foods of New York Tours, and within that, The Original Greenwich Village Tours. What…

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Russ and Daughters, a 102-year-old family business

One of the things I enjoyed doing in New York, when exploring new restaurants, was finding spots with a bit of history… a background… a story. We found it in punches at Russ & Daughters. According to all the articles I can find about it, the store opened in 1914. Created by a Polish immigrant…

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As I melted into little puddles of delight amidst a chocolate haze…

Chocolate + coffee = a bouncy, happy and very satisfied me. I had recently gone to USA as part of a press trip organized by Kohler, and apart from the press conferences and roundtable discussions the journalists were treated to…there was also a whole lot of food. One of the places that has firmly ensconced…

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Best @cheesecake one can hope for – The Cheesecake Factory

I love cheesecake. You know I do. You can feel it through every pore of this blog (see all my past cheesecake-related posts). So when I’d visited USA, I knew one thing I absolutely had to do was visit The Cheesecake Factory. I’ve heard a lot about this place from the lucky people who’ve gobbled…

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The pizza at Giordano’s Pizza was so good, I spoke to it

Pizza. I can honestly say I’d never really tasted REALLY GOOD pizza until I went to UK. I know now that pizza isn’t the fast food variety…well, ideally it shouldn’t be. It’s like telling me we should sell crème brûlée in little styrofoam cups. And then, completely by chance, I heard of something called deep dish…

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