Tag: Restaurant
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Savoring Spain

Another little holiday escape—this time for just one evening and without even leaving the city. Tonight I had dinner at Socarrat, a Spanish restaurant named after the best part of a paella: the crispy, caramelized layer of rice at the bottom of the pan. In Spain, getting the socarrat just right is considered the mark…
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German neighbourhood

I learned that part of the upper east side called Yorkville used to be inhabited by mostly German-born immigrants around the late 1800s and early 1900s. It’s very rich in history and hard to summarise in a couple of sentences. When I walked around the area and stumbled across a couple of German shops and…
