The Best Damn Risotto I Have Eaten In (17) Years!!! thanks, Il Pastaio!!
This is just a “short” note to discuss a risotto I ate last night at Il Pastaio,
which for lack of a better word, was @#$% ing Transcendent! Ethereal! Sublime! Exquisite! Celestial!!
In any case, you get the point that it was delicious.
It was this:
Lemon and Saffron Risotto.
The Arborio rice was al-dente- perfectly so.
*Note to TLV “Chefs” [...]
Thai house! finishes TLV’s “the Fab Five”!
For anyone foolish enough to go looking for a good, authentic, Thai meal in TLV, I have one thing to say:
“It’ll end in tears”.
Unless, of course, you go to “Beit Thailandi” (or, in English, “Thai House”.)
This place is not only an old and venerable TLV institution, more than 9 years old, but literally the ONLY [...]
Il Pastaio! in the TLV Top 5!
“Il Pastaio”?? “what, is this some new place in town??”
This is what I hear every time I mention that I love this place.
The fact of the matter is, Il Pastaio has been open in TLV for more than 18 years- or, , similar to “Dog Years”, that means about 18,650 “TLV restaurant years”.
And in that [...]
Yoezer Wine Bar! Unsurprisingly, in my TLV’s Top 5!
Sometimes, you just feel like Getting Away From It All-
And when that happens to me, and I can’t grab a last minute ticket out of here, I head for Yoezer.
Yoezer, for me, is one of those rare spots which when I am sitting there, makes me feel like a million bucks.
The atmosphere of course, is [...]
Yoshi! in my TLV’s Top 5!
“Japanese food and TLV.”
Hmm. Something in this sentence seems wrong…
Well, until Yoshi (Yossi Holu) came along, that is.
I’m very sorry to say this, but the fact that there are “Sushi” bars on every block in TLV, does not mean for ONE SECOND that I would eat at these places-
In fact- I would not send my [...]
The Only 5 restaurants I will eat at in TLV!!! I’ll start with Picola Pasta
*NOTE* This post will be in 5 installments!
“Oh, you’re a Chef! In Tel-Aviv! Great! Can you please recommend to us your favourite places? We heard a lot about XXXX and XXXX”……blah blah blah
This is my sad fate upon people learning of my occupation.
Now at the risk of sounding like a Snob, a Misanthrope, or a [...]
“it’s Complicated”- Anise!! what did you THINK i was going to say?!!
I can hear it already- a deafening roar of outrage and offense, at the very mention of the dreaded word- “Anise” !!
Well, sorry guys, but I am compelled to try to clear the wrongly slandered name of the sublime Anise!!
First of all, you might not be aware of this, but “All Anise Is Not Created [...]
My Precious Knives!!!!
Well, I guess I don’t need to point out that I am not a typical girl-
I mean, I love shoes, and don’t mind a nice session of vicious gossip with my friends (99% of whom are a bunch of cooks- Men cooks I might add)
but that’s about the end of the similarities between me and [...]
My favourite place in Town! “gabe’s”
Well, first of all, I guess I should point out that the actual name of “Gabe’s”
is in fact, “Taverna shel Gavriel”
Not that this has stopped me from calling both the place, and Gabi, “Gabe” for many years now.
In any case, what ever you may call it, in my opinion, it is one of the few [...]
Rice Papers- part 2- the yummy, greasy part!!
Ok!! I admit it- I’ve been little lazy in posting this part 2 of Rice Papers-
But I have a good excuse! It’s the holidays here, and, I must tell you-
I made the mistake of drinking RUM last night, and well, you know how that can end- And it doesn’t usually end in being able to [...]