By RICH GRANT People who have never been to Indianapolis and assume it is just another dying, dull, rust- and corn-belt Midwest city could not be more mistaken. Indy is amazingly sophisticated, and getting better by the day. Indy’s very walkable downtown is green (with 350 acres of parks, rivers, tree-lined boulevards and canals), European (with impressive monuments and murals),
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BY RICH GRANT It was winter and I’d had enough of it. Too much snow; too much cold. I needed a summer in Europe. I needed to walk in twilight past splashing fountains, to linger over a good meal at an outdoor cafe, to see flowers and statuary and history and art, all placed around me, for no reason except
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Corn, or maize, has been a key element in the Mexican diet since pre-Columbian times, and even today it is the core grain in most traditional Mexican recipes. First domesticated by indigenous people in southern Mexico about 10,000 years ago, maize also played a key role in pre-Hispanic pantheon of deities, with the maize god, Hun Hunahpu,
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS … Alfredo di Roma, located inside the Presidente InterContinental Hotel in Polanco, ia offering white truffles for as long as supplies and the season last…
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Papa Guapa, Mexico City’s multifaceted baked potato eatery, has turned a sharp left corner and headed out for a passage to India with its new Eastern-focused, vegan-friendly menu. The star of the new meat-and-dairy-free bill of fare is the Paparya Rai, a baked tater drenched in curried lentils, tapioca, peanuts, tofu and chillies. Named in honor of
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS … To call Ticuchi a restaurant is a bit of a stretch. It is much more of a tavern than an eatery…
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS It’s cherry season, and the folks at the Northwest Cherry Growers (NCG) association want to squeeze every drop of sweet cassis juice out of the three-month summer harvest. With Mexico now ranking as the eighth-largest export market for the sweet, fleshy fruits from the northwestern U.S. states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Utah and Montana, the association’s representative
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Roma Bistrot is a small, unassuming boutique eatery situated off the Río de Janeiro Plaza in Mexico City’s fashionable Colonia Roma. Opened last October, its objective is to offer quality French cuisine with a Caribbean twist, and, for the most part, it accomplishes that goal, although there are a couple of dishes on the menu that seem
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS The TK Terraza Grill in Tecamachalo is not new. In fact, it’s been around (albeit not always under the same name — it used to be called Tecamacharlies) since the 1980s (and the background music here is still from that decade). But while its décor and atmosphere have mellowed out over the years (gone are the ceilings
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS What do you get when you cross the peppery-citrusy flavors of regional Yucatan cuisine with the smoky tastes of Argentine gaucho cookery? If you’re lucky, the answer is Sylvestre Artz, an unpretentiously elegant meat house in Mexico City’s southern Colonia Pedregal where spicy Yucatan achiote and habanero chillies are fused with the vaporous earthiness of a Pampas
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