North America
It’s The Cheese For The New California Cheese Trail App
It’s cheesy goodness along California’s Cheese Trail.
Now it’s easier than ever to find the more than 70 creameries in the Golden State with the California Cheese Trail’s new app launched July 19.
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Portland Is A Bountiful Feast For Carrie Welch
Driving into her office recently, Carrie Welch, co-founder of Feast Portland, pinched herself to make sure she wasn’t simply dreaming as she cruised through the quaint streets of Portland, Oregon.
“It feels like a dream. It really does,” she says. “You know how people say that expression, ‘Oh I’m living the dream,’ and a lot of times these days they say that ironically like they don’t really mean it, but I do. I truly do.”
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Pom Pom’s Teahouse and Sandwicheria Takes Sandwiches to New Heights
Want to impress your date in Orlando? Take them to one of the city’s many fine gourmet eateries.
Want to find out if your date is The One? Take them to Pom Pom’s Teahouse and Sandwicheria (67 North Bumby Avenue; 407-894-0865; PomPomSteahouse.com) in Orlando, Florida.
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Love & Coffee Takes These Ladies To The White House
Listening to Brooke McDonnell wax on about the notes in her espresso while sitting on the steps of Pioneer Square in Portland during the early 1990s, Helen Russell, who was enjoying her mocha with the whip cream piled high, suddenly had an idea: let’s open coffee shops in San Francisco.
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Off the Beaten Path in the Dominican Republic
As I dig my toes into warm Caribbean sand and take another sip from the straw sticking out of the fresh coconut in my hand, I review my trip so far: In three days in the Dominican Republic, I’ve sipped rum, eaten gourmet food, splashed in the Caribbean Sea, strolled a World Heritage site, frolicked at a rainforest waterfall, and had the chance to gamble at a casino. I take another sweet swig, lie back, and let a smug thought momentarily take over:
Good thing I’m not acting like a typical tourist.
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A Profusion Of Fusion At Orlando’s Tako Cheena
When Pom Moongauklang opened her first Orlando restaurant, the eponymous Pom Pom’s Tea House and Sandwicheria (67 North Bumby Avenue; 407-894-0865; PomPomSteahouse.com), patrons were spooked by watercress and walked out when they realized American cheese wasn’t available.
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Oh So Fresh: Urban Fresh Day Spa Rejuvenates Albuquerque
Life is an adventure for Andre and Dr. Keith West-Harrison, the duo masterminds behind the newly launched Urban Fresh Cosmetics (123 Broadway Boulevard Southeast, 505-404-6670, , UrbanFreshCosmetics.com), organic bathing and cosmetics line, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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Fun In The Sun In Palm Springs
Golf and sun beaconed to us as Super G drove along Highway 5 in Rosie’s, our convertible Fiat, top down, with me in the passenger seat heading toward Palm Springs, California. The desert oasis has been the playground to the stars for decades and for this long weekend getaway it was going to be ours.
Palm Springs is unique with its 1950s architecture, art galleries, boutique shopping, and outdoor activities, especially its 124 pristine golf courses and plethora of hiking trails and national and state parks. The desert city offers travelers everything that they want under the sun. There simply is no other place like Palm Springs.
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GourmetFest Is A Social Affair To Feast On
Beat the crowds and delight in a smaller festival that by no means skimps on international fan fare by attending the next GourmetFest in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.
Girls That Roam had the pleasure of attending the third annual Relais & Chateaux GourmetFest, a foodies’ feast that definitely dazzles the taste buds, February 25 – 28. This event should set off fireworks in your mouth with food and wines being prepared and served by Michelin rated chefs and sommeliers from Relais & Chateaux properties around the world and some of the California Central Coast to France’s finest wineries.
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Jake’s A Charming Palm Springs Lunch Spot
It’s simply charming. That was the first thought that flashed through my mind when Girls That Roam walked up to Jake’s Palm Springs (664 North Palm Canyon Drive; 760-327-4400; ; JakesPalmSprings.com) in Palm Springs, California, for lunch.
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Nearly Luxury Without The Price Tag At The Dominican Republic’s Renaissance Santo Domingo Jaragua Hotel & Casino
Outside the Renaissance Santo Domingo Jaragua Hotel & Casino (George Washington Ave. 367, Apto. Postal 769-2, Santo Domingo 769-2, Dominican Republic; +1-809-221-2222; Marriott.com/hotels/travel/sdqgw-Renaissance-Santo-Domingo-Jaragua-Hotel-and-Casino/), the weather is about 90° Fahrenheit and humid. The forecast on this day—and on just about any given day in this steamy hot mess of a city—probably reads something like: “Cloudy, with a chance of chaos.”
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A Spanish Surprise—Fine Tapas at Downtown Orlando’s Ceviche
It’s my fourth day in Orlando and I’m starting to understand that there’s more to dining here than theme park hot dogs and chicken fried steak. So far I’ve had excellent new Italian food and mind-blowing Latin-Asian fusion. Now I’m about to have another culinary revelation: Tapas at Ceviche (125 West Church Street, Orlando; 321-281-8140; Ceviche.com/Locations/CevicheOrlando) that’s like a little bit of Barcelona flown into downtown’s happening Church Street Station.
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