Rose Cantine

I’ve been posting a lot on Mapplr lately, favorites in various cities like Sydney, Florence and Montreal. I have also included a review of an excellent Pakistani-Indian restaurant, a real dive in the Tenderloin district of SF.
Mapplr favorite restaurants in Florence
Mapplr favorite restaurants in Sydney
Mapplr favorite restaurants in Montreal
Lahore Karahi: fabulous Pakistani-Indian food in San [...]

Aren’t people eating too much already? Must baseball parks offer seats that allow their occupants, assuming they still can FIT into those seats, all-you-can-eat meals? No doubt this latest trend from the fattest country in the world will be picked up by enterprising sports venues in other countries. 
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It’s been raining for two days in Amsterdam. That’s probably why I’ve been blogging so much. Here are a few blog posts I’ve written across a variety of blogs.
Brunch, lunch, dinner in SF: Absinthe does all three quite well
Why having WiMAX in your device won’t necessarily make you get WiMAX service
FCC finally agrees that 200 [...]

The UK is facing a grave threat: the dramatic decline in the number of curry houses. The culprit: new immigration rules that exclude skilled curry chefs from Asia. According to the Financial Times:
The problem for restaurateurs is that most of their new chefs come to the UK on sponsored visas from Bangladesh. That has been [...]

Cafe Flore and Dolores Park Cafe
Bistro Jeanty in Yountville
SPQR: osteria on Fillmore Street

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I’ve been traveling a lot in the past two weeks so posting has been light. I went to Barcelona for the Mobile World Congress (formerly known as 3GSM and still called 3GSM by most people). Here are my posts from the conference:
Must have: Nokia’s cool N96
Nokia Maps 2.0 is a killer app for mobile phones
Barcelona [...]

I am back from Tel Aviv and posted several hotel and restaurant reviews on the Mapplr Editor’s Choice page.

Favorite restaurant: Herbert Samuel

Favorite hotel: Nina Cafe Suites

Favorite cafe: Nina Cafe

Favorite bar: Villa Sokolov

I would like to thank Roy Klieger for being such a good host and giving us a “tour” of Tel Aviv’s amazing night life, [...]