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horrible, otra oportunidad perdida

me he quedado horrorizado con el famoso Isabela
el traje nuevo del emperador
"yo no soy tonto"...MediaMarkt...
¿lujo? ¿gourmet?
¿no han entendido que no hay lujo sin espacio ni gourmet sin una atmósfera adecuada?
¿tanta operación de marketing para esto?
un espacio arquitectónicamente feo, falsete, contradictorio, sin caracter, con una mezcla indefinida de decorador malo, falso mobiliario industrial, suelo pergo, malas dimensiones, mala organización y mal planteamiento
no lleves carro porque no se vende, es una barra de minibarras de degustación
espacios angostos, techos bajos, iluminación oficinesca, sensación de agobio incluso con poca gente
para esto, señores... el gourmet de El Corte Inglés le da 80000 vueltas
ay isabela...¿de donde has salido?

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pegado al mercado...el sushi mas fresco

eye lo descubrió en febrero de 2013

For the world's freshest sushi, look no further than the world's largest fish market. Tokyo's Central Wholesale Market, also known as the Tsukiji Fish Market, handles roughly 3,000 tons—and more than 450 varieties—of fish a day. Early morning is prime time to taste the fish fresh off the boat, plane, or train. There are two sushi counters that are considered not just the market's top spots but among the best in all of Tokyo: Sushi-Dai is more widely known than Daiwa Sushi, but you can't go wrong at either sardine-size place, assuming you're willing to wait the better part of an hour in line. Everything from anago to uni is lovingly sliced and served straight to you, piece by delicate piece, from the counterman's chopsticks. It's a boisterous, jammed spot at the counter for some of the tastiest, freshest fish you will ever eat in your life

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museo y arquitectura

eye lo descubrió en enero de 2013

HIROSHI SUGIMOTO

The Izu Photo Museum is part of the Clematis no Oka, a beautiful complex that combines art and nature at the slow pace of the hills of mount Takayama. It is a very understated yet beautiful building where every detail has been designed with the light touch of an intrinsically Japanese manner. The building feels like a journey, a story told through a series of spaces, and gardens that interlink naturally, unpretentiously , allowing the exhibition to talk to the visitor without interruption. The subtlety of details contributes to the overall experience. The display walls, for instance, appear suspended, as supporting structure is painted in black and the white boards do not not touch the floor which lowers its edge as a contribution to the overall effect. The gardens act as pauses in the journey. They are windows to places one wants to stop and contemplate, reminiscent of those photographies that Hiroshi Sugimoto took at the New York Natural History Museum.

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happy hours a 1$ la ostra...

eye lo descubrió en marzo de 2013

CHINCOTEAGUE Chincoteague Bay, VA 2.25 / 13 / 25
CAPE MAY SALT Cape May, NJ 2.50 / 14 / 27
NAKED COWBOY Long Island 2.50 / 14 / 27
EAST BEACH BLONDE Charlestown, RI 2.75 / 16 / 31
KUSSHI British Columbia, Canada 3 / 17 / 33
SALT POND Point Judith Pond, RI 2.75 / 16 / 31
MERMAID COVE Prince Edward Island, Canada 2.50 / 14 / 27
WILD PEMAQUID Damariscotta Bay, ME 2.75 / 16 / 31
WELLFLEET Cape Cod, MA 3 / 17 / 33
LITTLENECK CLAM Jersey Shore 1.25 / 7 / 13
CHERRYSTONE CLAM Jersey Shore 1.50 / 8 / 16
HALF CHILLED LOBSTER 18
RAW BAR SAMPLER 42
6 oysters, 6 clams, 4 shrimp, 1/2 chilled lobster

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el mejor

Actualizado marzo 2013
Una pena, un desastre el arreglo del local...ha perdido personalidad y lo nuevo está hecho sin talento ninguno...
Pero el bocadillo de tortilla de antxoas....dios mio...lo traen recién hecho, con pan recién mojando el jugo tortilloso cremoso caliente que te quemas pero corre que no puedes parar de quemarte morirte gritar de gusto no hay nada igual nada comparable y obligatorio para todos el cielo debe estar lleno de tortillas de antxoa bergaras...

Anterior:
sin duda el mejor de donosti‚ y he recorrido unos cuantos desde hace años.
está en gros pero merece la pena. Julio Medem es asiduo.
he vuelto a estar hace unos dias y casi lloro de emoción...pedi un modesto bocadillo de tortilla de anchoas...anchoas fritas deshechas jugosas en el huevo en pan crujiente empapandose, caliente que quemaba pero no podía parar, que perfección, que maravilla, sencillamente sublime!!!!!

pedid, pedid este bocadillo...y lo contais aqui

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eye lo descubrió en noviembre de 2012

Herzog & de Meuron’s 11111 project recently opened on the west end of the Lincoln Road pedestrian mall. It’s a shocking structure — large, raw, and unfinished looking (there is some ongoing construction on the top levels, but the basic appearance is as it will be). The architects were able to pull variances, convincing government officials that the size of the building was determined by aesthetic reasons, but an effort to maximize capacity. And indeed, several of the levels are soaringly high, while others have the cramped height of a standard parking garage.

The building is “mixed use,” though the majority of it is open and designated for parking (currently $15 flat rate, and well utilized). The “its a garage” mindset may explain how this project was sold to planners and citizens, since there is precedent on South Beach for unusual garages (and anyway there is a pretty universal agreement that parking garages should be ugly). But I suspect that many residents are horrified by it, and this makes it all the more delicious.

The core of the building is a completely unconventional staircase, with every level blending into the next, attached with concrete stairs that jut in chaotic directions. Generally the details do not play up the under-construction thing, but do note the safety-mesh like steel wire on the railings (it is actually very high-quality braided wire).

Most of the retail is on the ground floor, with one solitary (and unfinished) location on the 5th floor. There is also some residential space on the top floors, but this is still under construction and probably off limits for good. The horizontal cables that make up the guard rails are set back a foot or two from the ledges, and they tend to disappear, creating spectacular vistas.

The lighting and other metal details are stridently mimimal, and most of the signage is painted onto the building in oversize Helvetica. The whole thing comes across as a monument against design-by-committee.

A view from the rose-colored windows of the movie theater across the mall. One of the best aspects of the project is Herzog & de Meuron’s transformation of the pedestrian area for a block or two around the project. They brough in black and white stone and created a slightly irregular surface, with landscaping inspired by the Everglades.

There is probably more going on with the planters then is immediately obvious, they are almost an exhibit recreating what’s happening 25 miles to the west.

I’m pretty sure they actually went out there and hand-picked the trees.

… replete with air plants. They are using some sort of cloth rope to hold them up while they root, not the standard 2×4 treatment.

The building is cleverly integrated into the bank structure next door, with a row of retail on one side, and crafty connections on several levels.

It’s difficult to convey how much the structure dominates the road. It certainly looms over the pretty movie theater, but in a way that I found pretty complimentary.

Here’s the view from the Publix parking garage, about a third of a mile away.

One more look inside at those angular staircases. Here on the second level there’s also a sculpture of angular metal, suggesting that all the supporting rebar in the building is like this.

I don’t know how the residents feel, but the people walking around and inside the garage seemed pretty engaged and impressed. People admired the pedestrian details, and there was some walking around and photographing inside the structure.

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ostras tres, por favor

eye lo descubrió en marzo de 2009

mmmmm
hay sitios, momentos en los viajes de los que te acuerdas toda la vida, que te vienen a la memoria una y otra vez, una y ostra vez, y ostra por favor, y ostra mas...y ostras tres...todo lo vas apuntando en una hojita con una lista de tipos de ostras con sus notas de cata, esta muy salada y final mineral, estas son cremosas...y unas almejas crudas como puños, que barbaridad...sencillamente espectaculares...fue ayer y cuando pienso en boston se me aparece esta barra, esta formula este templo del molusco crudo del atun, del agua salada...
nunca pasaré por boston sin rendir homenaje a neptuno, un templo,

14.4.2010
Y VOLVÍ!!!!
y estan todavia mejorers las ostras, incluso de postre me pusieron unas ostras pequeñitas dulcísimas maravillosas!
un espectaculo

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MUST

eye lo descubrió en febrero de 2013

Tsukamoto Sogyo Building, Basement 1st Floor,2-15, Ginza 4-chome, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan　Map→
Phone: 03-3535-3600 (+81-3-3535-3600 from abroad)
Sundays, public holidays, Saturday evenings, mid-August, and Year-end holidays

Lunch 11:30-14:00
Dinner 17:30-20:30

For reservations, call: 03-3535-3600 (+81-3-3535-3600 from abroad)

Reservations for Sukiyabashi Jiro Honten (original store) can be made by the concierge of hotel.

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eye lo descubrió en octubre de 2012

Finn Juhl’s own house is a textbook example of his project as an architect and as a furniture designer. The house at Kratvænget 15 in Charlottenlund, north of Copenhagen was built in 1942. It is situated in rural surroundings on a 1700 m² site adjoining the park at Ordrupgaard. The house is composed of two blocks standing at right-angles to each other. In one block is a large living room and a small study, while the second block houses the kitchen, dining room, bedrooms and bathroom. The two blocks are joined by an entrance hall which opens to the garden. The house is an early example of open-plan, with a characteristic view through its rooms. Although each room has its own clear function, it is always possible to look from one room to the next as you walk through the house and there is always a view of the garden. The ceilings are painted in pale light yellow and when they reflect the light from outside, they resemble the roof of a tent with light shining through. The house is brick-built and the façade is plastered in a grey-white shade which offers it a soft, matt effect. Therefore the house appears light against the contrasting dark woodland backdrop. Finn Juhl ‘thought’ in rooms, i.e. he thought from the inside to the outside. The facades were secondary and were to express the ideas behind the floor plan. Furthermore there had to be a balance between walls and windows. Finn Juhl had an excellent sense of how to integrate rooms with each other and how the light should work. The interaction between the rooms in the house and its outside surroundings were also important to the architect. The garden was designed by the landscape architect Troels Erstad.

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etiquetas: monocle

eye lo descubrió en febrero de 2013

From the bamboo-lined, lantern-lit path to the simple, traditional wooden decor of the rooms (with either chairs or tatami mats), Kikunoi is a microcosm of traditional Kyoto. The Tokyo outpost of one of Kyoto's most illustrious kaiseki houses, it serves the rarified cuisine of Japan's ancient capital – expect to spend a good three hours at table if you're having the full-course dinner. For a more concise, affordable introduction, the lunchtime Kodaiji bento is an exquisite tasting menu in miniature, served in a lacquered box with several side dishes. Owner-chef Yoshihiro Murata is revered for the depth of umami he coaxes from the dashi soup stock that underpins all his dishes.

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