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Noto

For our second day at Edinburgh, we decided to try this Michelin star restaurant for lunch.

The menu is fairly simple, and they mentioned we should order 2 to 3 dishes per person.

We ended up getting the North Sea crab, the trout temaki, arbroath smoke croquettes, and the okonomiyaki (Japanese pancake).

I would say the first two items I would get again. For 3rd, it was too salty, and the 4th I didn’t like the ginger.

For drinks got an espresso martini. That was good. And for desert got the chocolate ice cream (hidden inside is a lava cake) and strawberry hibiscus meringue (hidden inside is the strawberry sauce you put on waffles). The deserts were amazing.

Overall I would come back, it probably replace the last two dishes with others.

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Auna

We went to the this place for a friends 30ths birthday. We got a fixed menu, but ended up asking the waiters to wine pair our courses.

I will say the service is very high end (which I guess is expected since we were in the Polanco area). The waiters always made sure the table was clean, and they insisted on pouring the wines themselves (they would come over to the table if they saw you doing it!).

Here is the menu:

– **For Snacking (Shared):**

– Hummus with ‘chile de agua’ pico de gallo and wood-fired bread

– Pickled Vegetables with mushrooms, beet, and carrots on sweet potato sourdough

– **Starters (Shared):**

– Salmon Trout with soy vinaigrette, pistachio, and white kimchi

– Green Salad with blue cheese dressing and bacon-pepita crumble

– Fried Squash Blossoms with mushroom cream, guava chutney, and spicy sauce

– **Main Course (Shared):**

– Braised Short Rib with burnt onion sauce, ‘queso cuadro’, and blistered shishitos

– Striped Bass with romesco sauce, parsnip, and braised bok choy

– **Dessert (Shared):**

– Basque Tart with mamey ice cream and cocoa crumble

– Wood-fired Bananas with dulce de leche, ‘rancho cream’, and pinole crumble

From the above, the hummus, pickled vegetables, salmon trout stripped sea bass, and desserts were great. I probably wouldn’t get the others again (the braised short rib was cooked great, but the sauce/flavor wasn’t good).

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Le Roi de la Gaufre

Went to this place for some Belgian waffles in Belgium!

I got a waffle that has Nutella, bananas, and I added a scoop of vanilla chocolate ice cream. Would get this combo again.

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Hudson Clearwater

Went to this fancy restaurant as the last dinner of my New York trip.

For starters, we got the seafood appetizer platter. Could not go wrong with it.

For my main, got the braised beef. Also a great choice.

For dessert, got the apple crumbled with ice cream. Also great.

Nothing bad to say about this restaurant’s food (my first cocktail though I didn’t like so much, but their old fashion made up for it).

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Ichi Umi

Tried this all you can eat Japanese and Korean restaurant in Korea Town (New York), and thought it was decent for the price (apparently they also have a location in Menlo Park).

The rice cakes was probably overall my favorite Korean dish, and then the bulgogi (when it just comes out of the oven). The crab cakes and tempura were also not bad. For the Japanese portion, the hot pot was the best part (sushi was not super fresh).

One piece of advice, for the hotpot, always do the ramen noodles.

For dessert, they did have cookies and cream ice cream, which was fine for cleansing the pallet.

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Holly’s Ice Cream

For a quick snack, we stopped by this ice cream shop.

I got the smallest size, which is two scoop of any flavor. The first scoop was mint chip, which tasted pretty standard. The second scoop, kinder, had some kinder pieces in it, and tasted a bit like a kinder surprise. I was a fan.

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Icicles

So we decided to get some late night desert. And man, although it was pricey, it was worth every penny.

I got the Nutella n chill flavor (which was Nutella and banana). You also can get unlimited toppings (I got cheesecake bits, chocolate chip, lychee jelly, strawberries and a toasted marshmallow).