Mr & Mrs Smith’s very own frontierswoman, Mary , continues her journey to the west , camera at the ready, and drops in on some of the hottest hotels in the neighbourhood… Next stops: the Ranch at Rock Creek and Amangani The Ranch at Rock Creek opened last week (we move fast at Smith). We stopped in on a covert research mission here as the hotel was officially kicking off with a very private, very confidentiality-waiverish exclusive hire… so we snuck our way in to the hottest thing to hit the Rockies and, man oh man, is this place somewhere to shout about! Anyone with a luxury Wild West vacation in mind should giddy on up faster than you can say Pocahontas. On another bizarre, small-world side note… I actually bumped into a famous fashion designer friend (and Smith hotel reviewer ) out here in middle-of-nowhere Montana, completely by accident
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Travel gallery: the road to the Rockies – part 2
The lines are blurring in the world of new media. In some cases, established news stations pick up already-”published” tips from bloggers, who pick them up from Twitter.
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Thoughts on Citizen Journalism, Blogging, and Traditional Journalism
The Farmhouse bacon cheeseburger from The Good Stuff Cookbook. As I mentioned this morning , Spike Mendelsohn’s new book, The Good Stuff Cookbook , hits shelves at the end of this month, and you can enter to win a copy by commenting on the previous post. For a little sneak peek of what’s in the book (and just in time for Memorial Day cooking!), check out this recipe for the Farmhouse bacon cheeseburger, courtesy of Wiley Paperback
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Recipe: Good Stuff Farmhouse Bacon Cheeseburger
A new edition of Susan Feniger and Mary Sue Milliken’s Border Grill quietly opened its doors last Wednesday (May 19) in a commercial kiosk at 601 Figueroa (at Wilshire) in Downtown. The tiny outpost (called Border Grill Stop ) opens weekdays at 6AM and serves modern Mexican and Southwestern breakfast and lunch to the business crowd. Susan Feniger was spotted in the kitchen during the run up to opening.
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Plywood Report: Border Grill Stop Opens Downtown
May is definitely my favorite month for Ohio produce, because it means both morels and strawberries are in season – the one (morels) are quite difficult to come by, but strawberries – they are quite plentiful. So plentiful, indeed, that there are several options for pick your own strawberries
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Roadside Ohio: Hann Farms
Smith’s roving hotel hunter, Mary Garvin , has been dispatched on a very special mission – revisit her Stateside homeland, go deep into the Wild West, and don’t come back without finding hotel gold in them there hills. Oh, and take some nice piccies for the Smith Travel Blog , of course. First stop: Dunton Hot Springs , Colorado Dunton Hot Springs is hot indeed – no chance of getting cabin fever in these parts – unless you sit in the bubbling springs for too long
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Travel gallery: the road to the Rockies – part 1
The heat is finally cranking in Pizzeria Orso’s oven. After plenty of anticipation , the team behind 2941 announced today that their next project, Pizzeria Orso , is slated to open in Falls Church in June.
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Pizzeria Orso Coming This Summer To Falls Church
If you’re a Smith member , or if you pootle past the Smith homepage every so often, you’ll already know that we run regular competitions to win stays at some of Smith’s most stylish boutique hotels around the world . Usually, you might have the chance to win, say, a weekend at a lovely B&B in the Cotswolds or a European city stay , with some enticing goodies from one of our partner brands. This month, however, we’ve pulled something pretty darned staggering out of the bag: the opportunity to win the trip of a lifetime to Australia .
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Competition: win a 12-night Oz odyssey
Top Chef DC’s cast of characters Photos: bravotv.com Sooo, you may have heard around the food webs late last week that Bravo’s Top Chef unveiled the line-up of cheftestants for Season 7, aka Top Chef DC, premiering June 16.
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Top Chef DC Premieres June 16 With Oval Room Sous Chef
( Arab-Americans expressed delight Monday, a day after 24-year-old Lebanese-American Rima Fakih was crowned Miss USA. “For once, we’re talking about beauty and not terror,” said Osama Siblani, publisher of The Arab-American News, in Dearborn, Michigan, who knows Fakih and her family. He and about 150 other Arab-Americans watched the pageant unfold on a 100-inch television screen at La Pita Restaurant in Dearborn, which was packed with her friends.
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24-year-old Lebanese-American Rima Fakih was crowned Miss USA.
Grab a stool at Stoney’s to wait out the rain. photo: stoneysdc.com The forecast calls for rain through midweek, which has me thinking about the best local bars for hunkering down, cold drink in hand, to ride out the rain. Requirements: good beer, a casual vibe, and maybe some big windows for watching the dreary raindrops fall.
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5 Great Rainy Day Bars
While there are a ton of foodie events that happen in May (Taste of Dine Originals, North Market Apron Gala, etc) one of the more affordable options is the Taste of Dublin, which will be held tomorrow evening at the Atrium II Building in Dublin. While there are quite a few chain restaurants there, additionally there are lots of independents as well, and at $25 for the food and drink ticket, it is well worth every penny
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Event: Taste of Dublin
It’s hard to believe, after running around like a madwoman all day, that I had almost skipped going to the farmers markets all together today. This weekend was Komen’s Race for the Cure, and for the past 2 years I forgot all about it and ended up going to the North Market and getting stuck within the race perimeter until the race was over
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Farm Fresh and Local Produce 5/15/2010
Chef Carla Hall, the affable finalist from season five of “Top Chef,” says she loves bistro food. “If I’m dining out, I usually go for things I’m not going to make for myself like mussels or a great burger.” Hall is the owner and executive chef of Alchemy Caterers here in DC, and you’ll also find her teaching classes at CulinAerie . Her next class, “Carla Hall Cooks Spring,” is Monday, May 24 at 6:30 p.m
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Chef Five Bites: Carla Hall
Even though it’s been a tough year financially, I was fortunate enough to still be able to attend the Taste of Dine Originals this year as a guest of Dine Originals Columbus . I’ve been a fan of theirs for a long time now, and have greatly enjoyed attending their yearly fundraiser, Taste of the Independents for a few years now
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Event: Taste of Dine Originals 2010
Indian zoo to put its stuffed dead animals on display Mumbai zoo hopes its stuffed exhibits will keep drawing the crowds The only zoo in the Indian city of Mumbai (Bombay) plans to stuff its animals after their deaths and put them on show in a museum, officials say. The move follows a ban by India’s central zoo authority on new animals being kept in confined spaces.
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India zoo put its stuffed dead animals on display
For a chance to win tickets, follow Metrocurean on Twitter ! What: For the first Sound Bites concert, local musicians and chefs will set up shop at the 9:30 Club for an evening of music and food to benefit DC Central Kitchen . When: Sunday, May 23, 5 – 10 p.m.
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Good Causes: Sound Bites At 9:30 Club
More and more cafés, restaurants, and boutiques are opening below street level in the southern metropolis – testimony to the high demand for downtown retail space, according to the market newspaper, Saigon Tiep Thi. Tenants vie for top retail space High-end leases demarcate Saigon’s “well-known brand” streets Retail market and three most important things The upscale commercial real estate agency CBRE Vietnam says that in HCMC, retail space in prime downtown locations is nearly fully occupied and demand remains high though rents have been increasing day by day
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Below street level cafe’s, restaurants, boutiques in high demand
A picture taken on June 30, 1951 shows US Actor Errol Flynn given a lesson in the technique of attaching a leader to a fishing line by his son Sean during holidays at Lake Mead, near Las Vegas. Forensic tests will be conducted on what could be the remains of the war-photographer son of film legend Errol Flynn, who disappeared 40 years ago, a US Embassy official said on March 29, 2010.
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Mystery of Errol Flynn’s son’s disappearance may be solved with Cambodian bone find
David Varley, executive chef of Michael Mina’s Bourbon Steak in the Four Seasons, was awarded another title last weekend: Cochon 555′s prince of pork. The New Jersey native bested the other four DC chefs in the pork-laden competition with a globally inspired plate featuring a bao bun, barbecue popcorn, pork belly, a twist on an Oreo made with pork lard, and a few other dishes. Varley has cooked at the Trump International Hotel and Tower and Bradley Ogden in Las Vegas.
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Chef Five Bites: David Varley