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Grace and Grandeur at the Grand del Mar

By Myrna Katz Frommer and Harvey Frommer

We walk into the lobby of this resort in northern San Diego and pass a table with a bouquet of roses and hydrangeas. It’s the size of a giant balloon; the flowers are fresh and glorious. But you’re too distracted to…

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Matbah Restaurant, Ottoman Imperial Hotel: Dine Like a Sultan

By Myrna Katz Frommer and Harvey Frommer

The men who make Matbah happen: (left to right) F & B Manager Necati Yilmaz, Chef Kedar Yilmaz, General Manager Serdar Balta

Honeydew melon with chopped beef and “birth raisins”

From the outside, the Ottoman Imperial Hotel calls little attention to itself. It’s clearly a…

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by Myrna Katz Frommer and Harvey Frommer

Recently we needed a place to stay for an appearance for both of us at the National Press…

by Myrna Katz Frommer and Harvey Frommer

It seems like this hotel has always been there. And in many ways this is a statement closer to the truth than one might imagine. Construction work was launched on September 13, 1962, just a few years after the founding of Israel itself.…

          Shula’s & Hilton Naples, Florida: A Home Away From Home

                              By Myrna Katz Frommer and Harvey Frommer

It had been a little more than a year since we'd been at the Hilton-Naples. The weather was warmer then, welcoming enough to spend the bulk of an afternoon in the broad spread of a larger neighboring property, taking in…

                             ZUMA MIAMI: Extraordinary!

                    By Myrna Katz Frommer and Harvey Frommer

          A couple of years back we had lived high up in the Viceroy condominium across the Miami River from Epic and saw the goings on at Zuma, the dining outside and the hustle and bustle inside.

 We were preoccupied with interviewing and meetings for our book in progress IT HAPPENED IN MIAMI (…

by Myrna Katz Frommer and Harvey Frommer

A balmy weekday night in Miami Beach. We enter Klima through heavy wooden doors that lead into an orange-and-red-dappled lounge. It is like entering another world, a stunning 70-seat spacious and breezy 5,200-square-foot facility named for Miami's balmy…