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Cooking Guide: Steak sous vide
picture perfect steak
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restaurant: estro
“Oh, you like natural wine? You’d love Estro!””Devi assolutamente andare a mangiare a Estro, è perfetto per te.” (You absolutely have to go eat at Estro; it’s perfect for you.) Situated just north of Dorsoduro, the San Polo district is known for hosting a few natural wine…
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Vineyard: Nativo
Western Cape, South Africa It’s not the simplest task in the world finding the Hughes Family Wines. You’re unlikely to find any of their bottles in your local supermarket, and if you’re not prudent enough to follow Kiki’s email’s instructions very carefully, you’re even less…
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2021: Year of (Prosecco) Rosé
A good couple of months ago, when we were just starting to shed our winter layers in favour of milder twenty-something degree days, I said to my partner: “2021 is rosé year”. As an initial explanation, I played into the emotional reasoning, waxing poetic on…
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Heat Waves: Good wine gone bad
It’s safe to say that fairly few winemakers go about trying to make bad wine (Tassenberg, La Villageoise and Est! Est!! Est!!!, I’m looking at you). However, even when the producer is able to deliver a perfectly good bottle of wine – things can go…
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restaurant: all’osteria bottega
You’re spoilt for choice when it comes to eating in Bologna. Food is more than just a daily ritual here : it’s an absolute obsession. While cities like Venezia make choosing a restaurant a hefty task due to the scarcity of authentic spots, Bologna does…
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Acidity vs. Tannins
Some wines are unashamedly easy to read. Their fruits are easy to pick up on, and all the other characteristics are laid bare for even a novice to identify. Others are trickier, requiring a few minutes of smelling, tasting, re-smelling and re-tasting, as well as…
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restaurant: ai promessi sposi
We had the privilege of hosting two wonderful friends earlier this week, and naturally that meant that we tried to pick the perfect restaurant to show them in Venice a full week prior. Our first choice being closed on Tuesdays, we settled on another that…
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Supper Club : Sugar Street
There’s more to (culinary) life than restaurants and tasting menus. Certainly, some of those can actually be quite devoid of life. I remember once visiting a restaurant with my father, and after we had sat very quietly for the first few minutes, glancing around awkwardly,…
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restaurant: Zanze XVI
As with most restaurants worth visiting in Venice, you could quite easily walk past Zanze without being immediately drawn in. Had we not stumbled upon a picture of one of their dishes on Instagram, we likely would never have discovered it. Hidden in plain sight on…
