Category: Wandering Traveler

My New Orleans Drink Guide

I helped write a number of guides for Google Area 120’s new Touringbird guides with insider tips on cities around the world (more on Touringbird here). Of course, my tips are heavy on dining, food, bars and drink, with just 15 of my New Orleans recommends here (over a decade’s worth of my Nola recommends from hundreds of food and drink spots visited here). On… Read more →

My Bogota Drink Guide

I helped write a number of guides for Google Area 120’s new Touringbird guides with insider tips on cities around the world (more on Touringbird here). Of course, my tips are heavy on dining, food, bars, drink, starting with my Bogota food & dining recommends. On the drink side, I recommend coffee at Colo Coffee and wine and cocktails at Leo, Salvo Patria, Black Bear, Rafael, Ugly American and Segundo. … Read more →

My Memphis Food & Drink Guide

I helped write a number of guides for Google Area 120’s new Touringbird guides with insider tips on cities around the world (more on Touringbird here). Of course, my tips are heavy on dining, food, bars, drink. Here is my guide to Memphis and top food, BBQ and coffee recommends at City & State coffee, my “secret” Memphis barbecue dish you don’t know about at… Read more →

Gin Magazine — Copenhagen’s Top 10 Bars

My latest print feature in Gin Magazine (from the publishers of Whisky Magazine, which I have also written for here) is on 10 top Copenhagen bars that do right by gin (below): Lidkoeb, Balderdash, Curfew, Duck & Cover, The Barking Dog, Paloma Vermut, Rastlos Akvavit Bar, Bronnum, Strom, Ruby. Past issues of Gin Magazine:— My San Francisco bars article here— My Berlin bars article here— My Tokyo… Read more →

My Top Bar & Bartender in LA: Redbird & Tobin Shea

Enter my NEFT Vodka column, which spotlights California’s best bartenders and bars — including a special cocktail recipe from each bartender featuring this Austrian alpine-distilled vodka. My first column is on my # 1 bar in all of Los Angeles because of the consummate palate of bartender Tobin Shea, a cocktail master who has long perfected cocktails often using obscure spirits… Read more →

My Bogota Food Guide

El Cielo   I helped write a number of guides for Google Area 120’s new Touringbird guides with insider tips on cities around the world (more on Touringbird here). Of course, my tips are heavy on dining, food, bars, drink, starting with my Bogota food & dining recommends. I write about Leo, El Chato, Salvo Patria, Harry Sasson, El Cielo, Black Bear,… Read more →

Two of Bangkok’s Best Bars Seat Less Than 20 People

My latest feature article published March 21, 2019, at Liquor.com on two of the coolest, most creative bars in Bangkok, from my recent travels in Thailand, Teens of Thailand (ToT) and Asia Today. Article here: www.liquor.com/articles/niks-anuman-rajadhon/ Asia Today’s Cocoa, Do You Love Me? cocktail served in a cacao bean cup mixing chocolate bourbon liqueur, Green Chartreuse, ginger beer, dried coconut… Read more →

Walkable OC? The New Huntington Beach in 1 Mile

My January print article in Oakland Magazine and Alameda Magazines, covering the OC but from a walkable standpoint. Yes, in a massive county of millions, Orange County’s Huntington Beach is all grown up with new and revamped hotels, restaurants, cocktails and spas, all in one walkable coastal mile, complete with SoCal sunsets and chill surfer vibe. Article here. My other Oakland… Read more →