Akelare was the reason we drove from France to Spain in search of another gastro experience. We got a reservation here at the last minute overnight and decided to travel down from Basque country France crossing the border to Spain since neither of us had been to San Sebastian. We didn’t have luck with the […]

  When I lived in Beijing for four years, we only had Jenny Lou’s to count on. Even then imported cheese was expensive and tasted like chalk at best, slim pickings with farmers market featuring the locally made cheese by Le Fromager de Pékin.  Then I moved to Hong Kong and City Super was a wet dream. And then […]

We drove down from France’s Basque region in search of Spanish Basque food and unfortunately only had two meals to fulfill our eating adventures. Dinner was reserved for San Sebastian’s 3 Michelin Starred Akélare and we had pintxos (or what I like to call tapas that is not correct Basque terminology – but you know […]