The food scene is exploding with restaurants like the Lobster Shanty, Gulu-Gulu Café and Opus.
Every little neighborhood in this city of funky neighborhoods now seems to be exploding with restaurants, food shops and markets, all benefiting from a critical mass of passion, skill and experience, and all constructed according to the gospel of locally grown ingredients.
Even as North Brooklyn exploded with restaurants and night life, local movie buffs not long ago had to jump on the L train into Manhattan, or settle for barroom viewings, rooftop screenings and aspirational film festivals.
But for an increasing number of people it has also become one of the city's most appealing, and special, hangouts, as the district has exploded with restaurants, bars, galleries and boutiques -- not to mention artists, who've gobbled up new factory studios and lofts, and often use streetside walls and storefronts as their canvases.
On August 9, the Basque nationalist and separatist organisation ETA claimed responsibility for the attack, while four other bombs exploded around restaurants and shopping centres in Palma, Majorca, causing no injuries.
Two early groundbreaking John Woo films in the Hong Kong style (guns blazing, restaurants exploding, deaths occurring by the dozen) starring Chow Yun Fat.
"Without the glaciers, all of this would not exist," Bruno Lamenti, the owner of a wool goods store, told me, gesturing at the Avenida del Libertador, the main street of town, which is exploding with hotels, restaurants and souvenir shops.
Three of the city's most elegant neighborhoods -- Polanco, Roma and Condesa, each 15 minutes or less from the central business district, the Zona Rosa -- are exploding with new restaurants, clubs and art galleries.
It felt so strange to think of ourselves as in a war, because what we know as regular life isn't that normal, with buses and restaurants exploding every once in a while.
