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Pawn Shop Lounge? Only in NY
Pawn Shop Lounge by AnneLise Sorensen In a city where space is at a premium, the new Beauty & Essex stands apart. Ten thousand square feet apart, in fact. From the owners of the ridiculously popular Stanton Social comes this glittering restaurant, built in a former furniture store. From a distance, it still looks like […]
Posted in: New York & Backyard Travel
Eat Your Way through East LA
February 10, 2011
Eat Your Way through East LA by AnneLise Sorensen This story captures my philosophy about living as a “global local” – and traveling in your own backyard. I wrote it for New York Magazine this month – click here. And, now on my blog I’m including the longer, “unabridged” version – starting with the food. […]
Posted in: Los Angeles
Hello Kitty & Stingray in NY’s Chinatown
January 22, 2011
by AnneLise Sorensen Amid the Hello Kitty backpacks, I Heart NY onesies, and urban grit of Chinatown lies the elbow-shaped Doyers Street. It has a rogue past – Doyers was once dubbed “the bloody angle” because of its Asian gang clashes – but also culinary finds like the subterranean Southeast Asian Sanur. An unassuming doorway […]
Posted in: New York & Backyard Travel, Restaurants & Cuisine
Eat with the Fishes in Valencia, Spain
January 3, 2011
Eat with the Fishes in Valencia by AnneLise Sorensen The Valencia region is called “El Levante” after the rising sun – this is the part of Spain that wakes up first. Paella originated here, and a juicy orange is named after Valencia. But these days, it’s the experimental seafood and revisionist rice dishes that are […]
Posted in: Uncategorized
W Hotel: Masterpiece or “inglorious beer belly”?
November 28, 2010
W Hotel: Masterpiece or “inglorious beer belly”? by AnneLise Sorensen We just can’t resist starting out with this playful jab: The marketing wizards at the W Hotels have been busy. Check out the W Barcelona website, where the registered trademarks fly fast and furious: There’s Bliss®, Whatever/Whenever®, WET® pool, SWEAT® Fitness Center, and PAW – […]
Posted in: Barcelona
Feast like a Viking in Denmark
November 24, 2010
Feast like a Viking in Denmark by AnneLise Sorensen Thick smoke streams over the slender herring – rows and rows of them – as their silver scales warm into a deep red. The fisherman, in coveralls and clogs, prods the alderwood embers with a long pole wrapped in rags at one end. Inside the smokehouse, […]
Posted in: Denmark
The morning commute in Belize? A couple of minutes in flip-flops from bed to beach.
November 16, 2010
by AnneLise Sorensen “Go slow” is the motto on Caye Caulker, which is pretty much the only speed your golf cart will travel. Here, a couple of iguanas crossing the sandy lane is a traffic jam. Chilling out is the way of life, reggae the music, and five lazy paces the distance from your beach […]
Posted in: Belize
Marathon Miner: From Half a Mile Underground to 26 Miles Across Town
November 8, 2010
by AnneLise Sorensen It was his first time on an airplane. Imagine: To go from half a mile below the earth’s surface to above cloud cover within several weeks. From sweltering heat to crisp November in New York. From dark cave tunnels, where he ran his daily six miles while trapped underground, to loping across […]
Posted in: New York & Backyard Travel
Barcelona’s Casa Camper: A Hotel With “Sole”
November 1, 2010
by AnneLise Sorensen The bohemian-chic Camper, Spain’s best-known brand of footwear, knows how to make great shoes. It turns out they’re also good at hotels. The Mallorcan shoe company eschewed the normal route of diversifying into, say, handbags or watches because, as co-founder Miguel Fluxá puts it, “Food and shelter, like shoes, are a basic […]
Posted in: Barcelona
Indulge in the Jungle
October 27, 2010
by AnneLise Sorensen It’s all in the mud. Plumbed from the earth, this is the kind of rich goop that you’ll happily smear on your body parts, then submit to its rejuvenating tingle while reclining in a cabana, eyes closed against the warm sun, and hold on – is that a howler monkey? Belize’s Maruba […]
Posted in: Belize
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