It’s true that the best gifts are personal. For my birthday (a few months ago) My friend Jassi, a real Munchner Kindl gave me a truly incredible gift. A sweet little Notizbuch für München Landmark Notes, Arts, crafts and Coffee in Munich (which incidentally, the publisher of reached out to me about a few weeks…
Read MoreKofferldult and Knitting
I knew that Knit Nite was going to take place at the ‘Kofferldult‘ in the Augustinerkeller on November 24th, but I didn’t realize that the Kofferldult was actually a hand-made market until I walked passed this poster today. Even more reason to go!
Read MoreNever Eat Chinese Food in A City With No China Town. Our Dinner at Kam Yi.
A savvy Taiwanese friend and colleague told me this years ago when we were working together in Köln. Sage advice if ever I heard any. So why did we do it? Decide to have dinner at Kam Yi? Well the plan was to eat at Manam, but as usual there was a line outside, I…
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I recently enjoyed a Mädelsabend at a popular Haidhausen haunt; Nomiya. Here’s how I described it in my Design*Sponge Munich City Guide:“The unofficial “main drag” of Haidhausen is Wörthstrasse, which houses several restaurants and shops and on warmer evenings, hosts a nice street buzz. Some of these worth visiting include NoMiya, which offers tasty Japanese food…
Read MoreCafe Flair
Expect to hear a lot about Haidhausen in upcoming posts. I recently decided to get out of the house and found a gemeinschaftsbüro (shared working space) on Pariserstrasse between Pariserplatz and Wörthstrasse. My old day job was in Haidhausen, so the neighborhood is not new to me, but I usually haunted the portion west of…
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