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eat well USA
Some favourite
American meals
My best New York
meal was at
La Trattoria in
the West Village's trendy
Bleecker Street. It wasn't
fine dining but you'd be hard-pressed to
find better quality in an Italian restaurant.”
Sarah Lax Hayes & Jarvis
Bradley Ogden in
Caesars Palace is
definitely one of
the more unique
restaurants in Las Vegas.
water
lear It serves traditional
American food with a twist. I ate Sweet
sburg & C
Yellow Corn Soup, which is made with
St Peter spiced popcorn, and the Peanut Butter and
The snook is a protected gamefish – if you want to taste it, you will have to catch it yourself, off the warm waters of Tampa Bay Jelly Bread Pudding, which was delicious!”
Russell Meara Las Vegas CVA
to August and costs from £1,159 per person, not gumbo, cajun chicken and okra creole in New
including flights. Orleans and to satisfy a sweet tooth, order a La Casa del
■ trekamerica.co.uk slice of pecan pie in Virginia. Camino is a local
favourite in
A GOOD CATCH IN ST PETE’S Sample package: You can sample all these Laguna Beach, California.
You’ll need to put in some effort to have specialities on Titan HiTours’ Southern Spectacular This exclusive rooftop
the ultimate fish supper in the US. The St touring holiday, from £1,995 for 17 days. venue – the only one in town – has
Petersburg & Clearwater tourist board in Florida ■ titanhitours.co.uk a wonderful choice of Mediterranean food.
claims the snook is the most delicious of all Tuck into authentic pastas and fresh salads
fish, but you can only taste if you catch it your- VARIATION ON A THEME PARK and watch the sun set over the ocean with
self as a recreational angler. It’s illegal to sell it Disney is not taking the mickey when it talks a mango and passion fruit mojito in hand.”
in groceries or restaurants because it’s a protected about its fine dining credentials. There are Craig Murray Cassis Travel
gamefish. The best place to catch the snook is many options in its Orlando and California
in the warm waters of Tampa Bay. It’s a big, parks and hotels, and menus are inspired by Arizona has the
powerful fish but you can catch it close to the destinations as diverse as Africa, Canada, China, nation’s oldest
shore with spinning tackle or live bait. France, Japan, Mexico, Morocco and Polynesia. Mexican restau-
The best restaurants are booked up months in rant in continuous opera-
Sample package: Book seven nights at the advance, so make reservations as soon as you tion by the same family.
Tradewinds Sandpiper on St Pete’s Beach from book the holiday. And reassure your clients It’s in Tucson in southern
£2,469 for a family of four sharing a room, with that they need not Arizona. Since 1922, locals and visitors
Funway Holidays. Price includes Gatwick-Tampa worry about putting alike have flocked to El Charro Cafe for
flights and seven days’ car rental. on weight – they can sun-dried carne seca.”
■ funway.co.uk easily walk it off Jane Dawkins Arizona Office of Tourism
exploring the parks.
SOUTHERN STARS Mythos Restaurant I was pleasantly
Southern cooking takes its lead from many at Universal Orlando surprised by the
cultures and a tour through the states will Resort has been voted variety of food
satisfy the palate with a wide range of dishes the world’s best theme available and the standard
drawing from Mexican, French, Spanish, park restaurant for six of restaurants at Walt
British, West Indian and African-American years in a row – the Disney World in Florida. My personal
influences. Munch on a juicy thick-cut T-bone original-sounding favourite is Jikos where they serve
steak straight off the barbecue or try a fiery menu includes blue- African-inspired dishes and have a
orld
Mexican beef chilli in Texas. Be adventurous berry and pistachio- superb selection of South African wines.”
with traditional Brunswick rabbit stew or West crusted grilled Matt Tebbutt TV chef, Market Kitchen
Indian goat curry in Georgia. Fill up on crayfish pork.
alt Disney W
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