boulder, co: pizzeria locale

Almost like Italy.  At Pizzeria Locale you can even have a spritz while watching the pedestrian traffic...

san francisco: sight glass coffee

After a long, vertical, scary (there are some seriously rough parts of SF) walk we arrived at Sightglass coffee in SoMa. Housed in a soaring, airy space, Sightglass roasts and serves excellent coffee and baked goods...

yountville, ca: bardessono

California wine country is only about an hour away from San Francisco, but of course, with all the wine tasting you'll be doing, you'll want to have a room close by. We stayed at Bardessono, a beautifully landscaped "green" resort in Yountville, a stone's throw from some of the country's best restaurants- French Laundry, Bouchon and Bottega...

purchases: couto pasta dentifrica

Found it!  The best toothpaste in the world.  It's Portuguese, it's perfectly minty without any cloying sweetness and it comes in the most beautiful box and metal tube...

well said: theodore roosevelt

san francisco: spruce

Spruce is one of San Francisco's most acclaimed restaurants and it's one of the few places in town where you might see a man in a shirt with a collar...

new york city: proline archery lanes

Proline Archery Lanes is located at the very far end of the A train in Queens, making it one of only 2 places to shoot a bow and arrow in New York City.  For $20 you can ready, aim and fire 'til your heart is content in what looks like any middle-American Elk's Lodge.  It's surprisingly easy to become a proficient novice archer and incredibly satisfying to land your first shots.  Within 10 minutes, after a brief lesson from the friendly staff, I was acting out my Katniss Everdeen fantasies, even putting an arrow in bull's eye once or twice.  

If you come on League Night, you'll see what a difference years of practice make- the pros shoot from high-tech bows of the future (think Blade Runner) and produce a tight cluster of arrows every time, at twice the distance the beginners start from.

new york city: the lobster place in chelsea market

 An afternoon at The Lobster Place in Chelsea Market...

london: cecconi's mayfair

Normally, tuxedo'ed waiters are a very bad sign at a restaurant- either the place is absolutely blanketed in suffocating silence and formality or  it's some sort of suburban Olive Garden in fancy dress.  Cecconi's in Mayfair is the exception...

palma, mallorca: forn de sant joan

In the heart of Palma, Forn de Sant Joan is a slick two-story restaurant tucked into an ancient stone building. Start off with gazpacho, follow with shredded fois gras, finish with a molten chocolate cake.  Everything in between will be delicious...