Michel Richard Citronelle Cuisine: French and American-Influenced Fine Dining. Specialty: Lobster Burger, Short Rib Braised for 72 Hrs. Location: 3000 M Street Northwest, Washington, DC 20007-3701. Price: $190 for a 10-course meal. DC and fine dining go hand in hand. At least that’s how it’s felt since my time at...
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Cuisine: Eclectic, Fine Dining. Location: 1723 North Halsted Street Chicago, IL 60614-5501. Price: $225 for the “Tour.” I had been unleashed on the culinary scene in Chicago. In a bit less than a week’s worth of time, I had eaten at about 30 different restaurants, bars, and bakeries, and I was unsurprisingly almost ready to...
read moreLa Vineria de Gualterio Bolivar Eclectic, Fine Dining About 130-140 pesos ($45) for the tasting menu, without wine. Bolívar 865, Buenos Aires, Argentina In recent years, molecular gastronomy has picked up quite the following throughout the world. Nowadays, it’s not just about quality, but rather about innovation, both in terms...
read moreLa Bourgogne (restaurant at Bodega Vistalba) French, Fine Dining Mendoza 150 ($45) pesos for 3 courses R. Saenz Peña 3531 – Vistalba Mendoza, Argentina Very rarely do you find a restaurant that is considered almost unanimously the best in a nation. Yet Argentina does have just such a restaurant in La Bourgogne, which...
read moreYuco Eclectic, Fine Dining Entrées run about $20-$25. My cost was about US$60-$70 for 3 courses, a glass of wine, and tax and tip. Bustillo Av. San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina Argentina has some pretty interesting towns, but nowhere is quite as unique as Bariloche, the land of chocolate. That’s right—Argentina has a whole...
read moreEclectic, Fine Dining. A 3 course meal with 4 paired wines costs about 60 pesos ($17), but it depends on the level of wine pairing. With the higher echelon of wines, the meal can come to over twice as much. Los Indios S/N, 5567 La Consulta, Mendoza, Argentina. It was my last day in Mendoza, and I had one wine region left to visit,...
read moreLe Tobsil Moroccan, Fine Dining 65 euros, or about $90 22 Derb Abdellah Ben Hessaien, Medina Marrakech 40000, Morocco To celebrate the end of my first semester studying abroad in Spain, I decided to do something a little bit exotic, so I headed to Marrakech in Morocco and went on an expedition on camel into the Sahara desert to stay...
read moreClub Tapiz French/Eclectic, Fine Dining About 40 pesos ($11.50) per person for 2 courses Ruta Provincial 60 Mendoza, Argentina During my trip through Mendoza, I decided to take a day off from the guided wine tastings and to rough it through Maipu, the nearest wine-producing region. Maipu has much more infrastructure than the other...
read moreButterfly French/Eclectic, Fine Dining Around US$40-$50 for the actual dinner. You can reasonably expect to spend $60-$80 with some wine and/or supplements. Below Avenida Bustillo KM 7.9 Bariloche, Argentina Bariloche in Argentina is somewhat of an odd scene. Known for the fantastic ski slopes and the chocolate, you really...
read moreEclectic, Fine Dining. About 200 pesos ($55-$60) per person. Güemes 4382 1 piso por escalera, 1425 Buenos Aires, Argentina. One of the greatest oddities of the Argentine culinary world is that a guy can not only open a restaurant in his house, but it can be one of the best in the entire city. And that is exactly the case with Casa...
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