Food, drink and travel writer + sommelier | Argentina + Latin America
(Condé Nast Traveler) In any given year, the exercise of assembling a definitive list of the best places to travel is both exciting and daunting. After all, we’re never short on inspiring places and experiences we hope to cross off. And so, every fall, when we convene to start the process of creating this list, […]
(Fine Dining Lovers) By expanding the traditional 50-strong list to include 100 restaurants for the first time, Latin America’s 50 Best Restaurants suddenly became more geographically inclusive. The new list, unveiled recently in Mérida, Mexico, not only recognised restaurants in Central America – from Guatemala, El Salvador and a cluster of additions in Panama – but also […]
(Fine Dining Lovers) Behind the stick mixing and shaking, creating brilliant beverage brands and concepts, or working backstage managing logistics, an array of talented women made their mark in this year’s World’s 50 Best Bars list. Here, 50 Best academy chair for South America, Sorrel Moseley-Williams shines a light on some of the global cocktail scene’s top female players, whose accomplishments […]
(Fine Dining Lovers) Mexicans take food seriously, and given the strong Mayan culinary culture with Spanish and Lebanese influences in the Yucatán, Mérida is an obvious destination to host Latin America’s 50 Best Restaurants 2022. Mexico’s traditional cuisine and milpa agriculture was named Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2010, thanks to “its ritual practices, age-old skills, culinary techniques and […]
(Good Beer Hunting) When a farmers’ strike in Peru’s Cusco region stops travel into the Sacred Valley, it’s suddenly impossible to reach Cervecería del Valle Sagrado, perhaps the most influential brewery and taproom in the Andes. Unwilling to be branded a scab or run into a crowd of striking farmers, I stay put in my […]
(Fodor’s) Get wet and wild in Argentina’s subtropical national park that’s home to one of the world’s natural wonders, the Iguazú Waterfalls. There’s nothing like a brush with nature, and in the case of Iguazú National Park’s most majestic cascade, the Devil’s Throat, waterfalls plunge down 262 feet, lightly baptizing you with a spray of droplets. […]
(Time Out) Footballing legend Diego Maradona was always larger than life – so it’s only fitting that an absolutely huge mural of the Argentinian superstar has been unveiled in Buenos Aires ahead of this year’s World Cup. Measuring an epic 45 metres high by 40 metres wide, the immense mural was unveiled on October 30, which would have been Maradona’s sixty-second birthday. It took a […]
Basque Culinary World Prize winner Chef Binta lifts the lid on her heritage The award-winning chef, who celebrates her Fulani community’s rich culinary heritage at pop-up dining experiences, explains what being part of this nomadic tribe really means, and shares favourite spots and artisans – in her Good City Guide to Accra (Topia, December 2022) While […]
(Fodor’s) Creating restaurant bucket lists, locking down a reservation at the hottest restaurant in town, and ordering the most Instagrammable dish on the menu can make or break a foodie’s vacation. Yet, even if you do get to London, São Paulo, or Bangkok, your budget might not match your dream dining experience. So we’re sharing […]
(Decanter) Josep Roca is the self-professed ‘wine waiter’ of three-star Spanish restaurant El Celler de Can Roca that he shares with chef siblings Joan and Jordi. He was named World’s Best Sommelier in July this year in the inaugural prize launched by World’s 50 Best Restaurants. He is the author of Tras las viñas. Un […]
