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Terrible travel recommendations: Advice best ignored
Travel tips and advice that you should pay no attention to. Sometimes the best tips about where to go and what to do come from the people you know. Friends, family, work colleagues, the
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Modern Toilet: Taipei’s toilet theme restaurant
David Whitley discovers unexpected cultural influences in the Taiwanese capital – and ends up eating his dinner from a toilet bowl in the deeply weird Modern Toilet. Anyone who called Taipei a beautiful city
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Is the Taste Card worth buying?
One card can get you 50% off the food bill at thousands of restaurants in the UK – but is it worth the investment? For a couple of years now, I have carried a
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Group meals are rubbish
Going on a group tour? Then you’re better off doing your own thing in the evening… More than an hour after ordering, the woman to my right was still waiting for her pizza. The
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When is it reasonable to expect someone to speak English?
“Food, you have food?” I asked, breaking into a knife and fork shovel mime. “Sticky rice?” came the reply. “Fried noodle?” I tried. “Sticky rice. Soup” “OK, sticky rice, soup.” There was no real
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Elbow Room Café, Vancouver | Review
David Whitley goes for breakfast in an establishment where rude service has been turned into theatre. Dropping a fork on the floor is embarrassing wherever you’re eating, but at Elbow Room it could be
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How much to tip: A calculation guide
A formula for how much to tip in restaurants. There are plenty of tipping calculation guides on the web, all written by people so terrified of being called tight that they vastly inflate what
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Belgrade’s dining revolution: Serbia’s hot new restaurant scene
David Whitley expects meaty stodge in Belgrade, but finds that the Serbian capital offers arguably the best value dining in Europe. If it wasn’t for the notably youthful, moneyed-up crowd, Restauran Talas would be
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Why the hell are you using chopsticks?
If you need to do a complicated sum, what do you use? Is it an abacus or a calculator? I think we all know the answer to that. For all the traditional charm of
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