Full of holiday celebrations, December in New York City is one of the busiest, most expensive times of the year to be there. Add snow to the equation and you have what seems to be a really magical time of year. But we quickly learned that snow in New York means anything but magical. Difficulty […]

“What a neat area,” I remember thinking as I ventured from Japantown to where I was meeting a friend for lunch. The street was littered with little clothing stores and cafes offering selections from venues I was not accustomed to seeing . San Francisco is cool! We walked into The Grove, a popular spot that […]

Boylston street was closed in Boston. What a nightmare. We were trying to make it from Brookline to Boston’s Theater District to celebrate Rachel’s grandmother’s 90th birthday, and all we could find was roadblocks followed by traffic. Make a U turn, find the same thing. I put my drivers cap on and meandered around Beacon […]

The first time I went to Towne for lunch I just couldn’t bring myself to order the smoked salmon club sandwich. It looked… interesting, that’s for sure, but having been accustomed to eating great smoked salmon plain (well, maybe with a bagel and cream cheese) I was confused why it would come in a club […]