By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Starting Monday, Nov. 23, all nonessential businesses in Mexico City — including stores, shopping malls, bars, movie theaters and gymnasiums — must close by 7 p.m. daily to help slow the growing surge of covid-19 cases, Mexico City Major Claudia Sheinbaum announced Friday, Nov. 20. Under the new ordinance, restaurants will be allowed to
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By RICH GRANT Everyone knows Charleston, South Caroline, is one of United States’ most historic cities, but there’s a lot more than history occupying the town’s 1,600 pre-Revolutionary War buildings, including new breweries, distilleries and clubs. Charleston has become a Williamsburg with bars. And James Beard award-winning restaurants. And one-of-a-kind shops and galleries. Of course, there’s still plenty of history
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS While people across Mexico struggle to stock their pantries and convince their children to scrub their hands with soap and water in the face of the growing novel coronavirus epidemic, one of the first and most severely injured victims of the Covid-19 crisis is the nation’s hospitality industry. Although Mexico City is still in Phase 1, which
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS When a company that owns more than 100 bars and nightclubs across Mexico decides to open its first restaurant, you couldn’t really blame it if the menu started off a little hit-or-miss. But at La Bikini, which (as might well be expected from a corporation that specializes in bars and drinking) bills itself as the “Cathedral of
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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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