ChiLuxe Travel

When you think about Dublin, you don’t typically think about elevated cuisine. Usually its more of the fish n’ chips and bangers n’ mash variety of food. But don’t let its cruddy reputation fool you – Dublin has some really amazing eateries and we enjoyed a wide variety of cuisine from, yes, fish n’ chips, to fancy fish we have never even heard of like “plaice”! Delahunt was easily my favorite meal of our five nights in Dublin due to…

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Tmun capped off an extremely busy and tiring day in Gozo, and it really was the perfect end to our day. I chose Tmun because it is located right in the harbor of Mgarr, Gozo, and its proximity to the ferry which we would need to catch to make it back home to Valletta. I had originally made a reservation for inside, but the evening was so incredibly perfect and beautiful, that the host obliged our request to sit outside…

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I decided that in order to fight the jet lag, I would book a reservation in the evening on our first night in Malta in order to motivate us to stay up later than we otherwise would have. I mean, when we arrived in Spain in June of 2022, on our first night, we went to bed at 6:30pm and it was a massive struggle to stay up even til then. On this euro-trip, though, we booked dinner reservations at…

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For our last night in Spain, we went to a restaurant that was recommended by our Hotel Concierge – Can Cisa/Bar Brutal.  It seemed super hip and very wine-centric, which was something that I was especially looking forward to.   When we arrived, we were seated towards the front of the space, although the a/c was not working there which made it a bit stuffy.  Because of that, though, our water for the night was free, which is something that…

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One of our stand out dinners in Barcelona, Spain was at Martinez Restaurant.  I chose this place because of the high recommendations from several sources regarding their paella.  It also would be the only time we could get to the high hill on the southern end of town, Montjuic.  We took a cab here as it was much too far to walk, and we were dropped off right next to the restaurant.  We were a bit early, so we took…

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As we were walking around Madrid, we noticed that there were quite a few Argentinian steakhouse restaurants in the area near where we were staying in the literary quarter.  We figured this would be a nice change of pace from all of the tapas we were eating, and who could resist the aroma of juicy steaks emanating from these restaurants?  As we walked by several of these places, their grills were right in the window, inviting us to come and…

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