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This week marks the fourth month that Fly&Dine has been flying and I can’t even begin to tell you how excited I am that the site is doing so well. When I launched it, I thought that I would maybe convince a hundred people a day to check out what I was posting. Now, after…
It’s about to get a little more rewarding to be a GlassHole… Stanford Court, a boutique hotel on San Francisco’s Nob Hill, is offering a free cocktail, beer, or glass of wine if you have the indecency to wear Google Glass inside their doors. All you have to do (assuming you’re the idiot who wears…
Over the weekend, I wrote a guest post for travel guru Peter Greenberg’s website where I talk about some of my favorite new foodie travel developments. If you’re a regular reader of Fly&Dine, you’ve probably seen most of what I talk about, but check out the story here: Fly&Dine’s Best New Airport & Airline Food…
Do you read Food Republic? I do. I also happen to write for them quite a bit (check out my Kessler Report column here). Most weeks, the site features great food content geared towards dudes (bacon, whisky, sports, souffles) but this week, they’ve been doing Fantasy Travel Week and it’s pretty fantastic, although I think…
Okay, okay, so there’s no such thing as “Virgin Airlines,” but I won’t fault Portlandia too much for that. Do you watch Portlandia? I do. I love it. It’s Fred Armisen (SNL) and Carrie Brownstein (Sleater-Kinney) sending up the idiosyncrasies of PDX in the most hilarious way possible: via a sketch show on IFC. Their…
Welcome to the second Fly&Dine Giveaway Interview! One lucky reader is going to win a $50 Visa gift card, so make sure to leave a comment with your answer to today’s question (below) for your chance to win. If you’re a regular visitor to frequent flyer blogs (and if you’re reading this, you are), you…
If you’ve been to the beautiful Ritz-Carlton Los Angeles inside the L.A. Live complex in Downtown LA, you’re either (a) a wealthy individual who knows the joy of staying at a Ritz and can afford their room rates or (b) you went to WP24, the neo-Asian fine dining restaurant from Wolfgang Puck on the 24th…
TWO DOLLARS. That’s what it costs to fly your bag in terms of jet fuel. Or at least that’s what a new study by the Detroit Free Press says. US carriers pocketed $3.5 billion in baggage fees in 2012, so it’s obviously a major revenue source to them, but come on. That’s a 1250% markup.…
Ah, the First Class Lounge; that shangri-la of tiny sandwiches, premium liquor, and showers that I’m not even that afraid to use. If I had access, I’d go every day. It would be my country club, my sanctuary, my really upscale Starbucks. The problem is, lounge access costs major dollars in the form of memberships…
One of the biggest complaints I hear about food in airports is that it’s just not healthy. DFW has apparently heard those complaints, too, and they’re trying to fix the problem with their new “Eat Healthy at DFW” campaign. That means that every single one of its dining outlets is going to be offering at…
The Wall St. Journal just published a big story online about the current state of airport food and the business behind it. Definitely worth a read. Check it out here: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303465004579322690270418718 My favorite quote comes from Rick Blatstein, CEO of OTG Management, which operates restaurants at airports in the U.S. and Canada: “We operate restaurants…
In our new feature “Chefs in the Air,” we’ll check in with chefs around the world who just returned from a trip to find out what their traveling experience was like. Our first “Chef in the Air,” is Wonny Lee, Executive Chef of West LA’s entertainment industry hot spot Hamasaku. Lee recently returned from a…
Today I had the honor of being featured in fellow BoardingArea blogger DeltaPoints’ fireside chat series. It was a pleasure to participate and many thanks to Rene for including me. If you want to check out what I had to say or pick up the tools of the trade from a regular Delta flyer, head…
Okay, okay, so this has nothing to do with travel. It doesn’t matter. It’s glorious. The Fat Boys were one of my favorite rap groups growing up and this video from the movie “Krush Groove,” is just a total masterpiece. Get ready for more than three minutes of obese men clearing out the all-you-can-eat…
