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Stop the presses!! Breaking culinary news out of Puerto Morelos!! ______________________________________________________________ Entrepreneur Catriona Brown (The Little Mexican Cooking School and Casa Caribe B&B) and Chef John Gray (John Gray's Kitchen and John Gray's Merida) are partnering up in May this year!  They both have ...

Following the overwhelming success of the 2012 season, The Little Mexican Cooking School and Casa Caribe are pleased to present the 2013 WINE TASTING AND FOOD PAIRING SERIES, offered in cooperation with La Europea and Cordon Bleu School of Gastronomy. For 7 Friday evenings throughout the spring, the open-air terrace of Casa Caribe will be set ...

El Dorado Spa Resorts & Hotels, an all-inclusive beachfront resort company in the Riviera Maya, Mexico, announced Wednesday that it has been selected as official host hotel of the Cancun-Riviera Maya Wine & Food Festival (CRMWFF). Recognized by the CRMWFF for its culinary commitment, El Dorado Royale will host celebrity chefs, notables and ...

  Tonight in Puerto Morelos, Casa Caribe and Tulipanes will present their last wine tasting event for the season featuring a selection of Chilean wines. The Vines will once again be  providing us the opportunity of tasting a selection of wines from Quintay of the Maipo Valley Chile where the renowned Casablanca and Leyda sub-growing ...

"It's really unique," she gushed on the phone a few weeks ago, "you will love it!" I cringed. "Unique." If I had a dollar for every time a friend described a resort, a restaurant, a menu as "unique" ...well, let's just say I would be a wealthy ...

Great news for foodies in Quintana Roo! The First Annual Cancun-Riviera Maya Wine & Food Festival has been announced for March 15-18, 2012. It's a culinary all-star line up with such notable Chefs as Jacques Pepin, Patricia Quintana, Aaron Sanchez, Ingrid Hoffman and the incomparable Ferran Adria among many others! Festival highlights ...

Six years ago, the first time we visited the Merida Zoo, the kids were not much more than babies. We were in the city doing some exploring and celebrating Cole's 2nd birthday so a trip to the zoo seemed like the perfect way to spend the afternoon. It turned out to be the perfect time for both little one's to spike a fever and come down ...

Every once in a while, when I am convinced that I am raising my children in a party town, a den of iniquity completely lacking in any cultural integrity, an opportunity like this pops up. A few weeks back, just before Taste of Playa, we were invited to attend a special event at Xcaret, a wine tasting evening organized to kick off the 1st annual ...

The Riviera Maya's own celebrity Chef, John Gray has cooked up a truly unique and enticing  "degustacion" menu for the patrons of his first and signature restaurant, John Gray’s Kitchen in Puerto Morelos. This Saturday, September 11, diners will find Chef Gray and his team in the Kitchen cooking up an array of ...

Fume Blanc? Any idea what it is exactly? I didn’t until just a few years ago. In a nutshell, Fume Blanc is a marketing term conceived of and utilized by the late great Robert Mondavi to sell a rather fine batch of Sauvignon Blanc, a grape much maligned in the United States until the 1970′s. Despite the fact that wine lovers had ...