The Den at Azabu

Located in the Marriott Stanton hotel in Miami Beach, Azabu has a restaurant nestled away in the back called The Den which is an amazing omikase experience. Headed by Chef Atsushi Okawara, this restaurant has fish flown in from Japan at least twice a week and provides Tokyo style Omikase and has another location in New York City with its own michel...

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Beacon 23, Season 1 Episode 4 - God In the Machine

We are at the midpoint of the season! And the show takes a turn away from our main protagonists to focus on the beacon's history and to do what I had hoped would happen, give us a glimpse into the AI's. The show starts with a flashback to 180 years earlier where a shadowy man with two briefcases docks at the beacon. It turns out to be Milan Al...

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Doctor Who - The Star Beast

Warning! This contains spoilers! David Tennant and Russell T. Davies is back! And after enduring a Hollywood actor, screenwriter's and director's strike. The TV industry in England is unaffected, but the timing could not be any better as this episode is oddly familiar as it was it was extremely refreshing. In some ways I feel like I've grown a lot ...

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El Cielo in Miami

One of four locations (others are Medellin, Bogota, Washington DC, Chef Juan Manuel Barrientos seeks to explore all the sense in his tasting menu.  His restaurant is a very refined and nice look at Columbian cuisine for the uninitiated (myself) and his creative presentations are well appreciated. The restaurant is located in the heart of ...

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Beacon 23, Season 1 Episode 3 - Why Cant We Go On As Three?

Warning! this contains spoilers!  I find myself looking forward to this show from midweek onwards and luckily, episode 3 arrives. This episode is much darker than the previous episodes as next week e quickly get to the midpoint of the season.  We seem to not know who really anyone is but find ourselves cheering for our hero and heroine&nb...

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