This Porto institution, more than 50 years old, is charmingly decorated, with 68 rooms, a pretty interior patio and a marvelous location in the city center.
Frankly, it was not some pretty place, but rather the pursuit of the marvelous, that sent me down to Mexico City this summer to visit Carrington, who at 85 is one of the last surviving Surrealists.
Act II, a marvelous eruption of Central Asian exoticism, is pretty much Borodin's.
This doesn't mean he won't be a marvelous player, but Tuesday night he was simply pretty good.
"Buildings like these are marvelous because you can go into them and pretty much make them anything you want, and still keep the historic character".
But the menu captivates, and it is a pretty restaurant all the same: a leather-filled and pin-lighted dining room with marvelous views, absolutely in the design mold of Mr. Colicchio's other properties, though somewhat chillier in aspect.
4 15 p.m. — Getting pretty hungry so I eat leftover roasted sweet potatoes and watch an episode of "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel".
It's marvelous on simply cooked fish, tasty stirred into seafood stews and makes a fine topping for pretty much any vegetable sturdy enough to hold its own against the thick, pungent sauce.
