Dining Trains Those who love the relaxation, elegance and allure of train journeys, complete with dining cars offering fine meals, have had to sadly witness the decline of Japan’s “Blue Trains.” Those bygone trains, named for the color of the cars, featured overnight journeys with dining and sleeping available and offered travelers the romance associated…

While it’s said that Rome wasn’t built in a day, the same can be said for creating a great restaurant. In the case of innovative chef and restaurateur Heinz Beck, it has been a career of hard work and dedication that earned his La Pergola the status of being the only restaurant in the Eternal…

More than just a guy’s guy My 8-year-old daughter adores Nobuhiko Takada. To her, he is a giant teddy bear. In a tag game of kids versus adult, because of his lumbering 185cm, 95 kg, size he is the most obvious target and inevitably the first one tagged out. Indeed, when Reina and her friend…