I can’t resist a good home wares store. Munich offers a lot in the way of modern, modern organic, urban and, to some degree, vintage home interior options, but what I often find lacking is ethnic home furnishing items. When I travel I try to load up as much as I can on local crafts…
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Last Saturday morning, I ran out of the house to quickly grab some potting soil at the Dehner and grab a few groceries at the Viktualienmarkt. Here is what I saw on my twenty minute excursion. Some of the breweries must of had some kind of a hee haw at Viktualienmarkt. I caught the tail…
Read MoreViktualienmarkt – Luiginos
As I mentioned in my Design*Sponge city guide, if you’re looking for quick, cheap and delicious grilled sandwiches made with generous slabs of French bread and ingredients like prosciutto, figs, mozzarella, goat cheese and more, head to Luiginos, an organic cheese stand that boasts the production of “World Champion” Emmentaler cheese (the sandwich board displaying…
Read MoreYay Gravis! Boo Apple Store!
Last week I had one of those days when a cascading set of dependencies made it absolutely impossible to get any work done. I wanted to make a screencast, but the software I was using no longer saved in mpeg4 format, in order to install new software I had to upgrade my OS to Snow…
Read MoreShuhbeck’s Gewürze Laden
I usually avoid the Platz called ‘Platzl’ in the Altstadt. It is the epicenter of all things touristy in Munich, complete with a Hard Rock Cafe and the year-round faux Oktoberfest at the Hofbräu Haus (I always inform out of town guests that going there is strictly verboten) But alas, I was making a recipe…
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