Rose Cantine

If you eat out in San Francisco, the first thing you notice is how easy it is to get a table at your favorite restaurant. In the pre-credit crunch days, you had to reserve weeks in advance. Today you walk in. It’s no surprise that SF restaurants have been doing all kinds of promotions to [...]

I just reviewed the best place to hang out in Amsterdam: Momo, a restaurant lounge and bar next to the entrance to Vondelpark and one block away from the PC Hooftstraat, the city’s luxury boutique shopping street. What I like about Momo: the sushi and sashimi. Read Mapplr’s review of Momo.

Ah, the joys of user-generated content (UGC), where everyone, including someone with an IQ equal to their shoe size gets his say. Very democractic, the Internet. Isn’t this what we were all waiting for? The problem is when everyone gets to have an equal say, who is to say whether the review is trustworthy or [...]

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Catit: Mediterranean food in Tel Aviv’s trendy Neve Tzedek

What tastes like burnt muddy water? Starbucks coffee, of course. I hate it, well at least the US version. Why Starbucks coffee and pastries taste better in Japan’s Starbucks cafes remains a mystery.
Now it seems that Starbucks is expanding in Europe. They are already ubiquitous in London but that’s not enough for the purveyors of [...]

It’s that time of the year when people are traveling and making hotel reservations and trying to figure out where to eat. So I just posted Mapplr’s top restaurants in Honolulu and top hotels in Prague:
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Mapplr’s favorite hotels in Prague

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Mapplr’s favorite hotels in Florence
Mapplr’s favorite restaurants in Miami
Mapplr’s favorite restaurants in Chicago

Mapplr’s favorite hotels in Rome
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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 [...]