Bizarre garnish, great view at The First Luxury Art Hotel.

All’Oro, Riccardo Di Giacinto and Ramona Anello’s Michelin star restaurant closed its Parioli branch back in December 2012 and opened in the First Luxury Art Hotel shortly thereafter. For months, lunch service at the new All’Oro location near Piazza del Popolo was dedicated to a buffet bruch. Yesterday, at (more…)

I never used to have a problem with public speaking. I owned the stage back in high school when I was in student council (no, I am not ashamed to admit that I peaked in the 1990s). Then again, I used to practice my speeches. I should start doing that again. I just got home from presenting (more…)

Earlier this week, Eater ran my Istanbul Heatmap, a collection of places that are new (or at least have something new about them). If I could have written only about the places I love, no matter how long they have been established, the piece would have gone a little something like this: (more…)

I am super excited to be hosting another Italian craft beer event at Jimmy’s No. 43 in the East Village. On Monday June 10 at 7PM, I will be serving some really fantastic and relatively rare beers paired with dinner. Tickets cost $45, reservations are essential and you can book online. Here’s what I’ve got in store for you (more…)

I am super excited to announce the arrival of “Katie Parla’s Istanbul”, which hit the App Store a few hours ago! For over a decade, I have been studying Istanbul and its food, tracing the origins of the city’s dishes, crisscrossing the Bosphorus in search of ingredients and feeding my full-blown obsession with (more…)