Denise Jones

Owner

• Favorite foods
  Salmon sashimi, pan-roasted duck breast, really good phad thai, and Matt's famous chocolate chip cookies
• Favorite food-related movie
  Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (original version)
• Favorite restaurants
  Monsoon in Bellevue (Vietnamese), Place Pigalle in Seattle (romantic), Rolls & Rolls in Bellevue (sushi), Thai Ginger (Thai), Cafe Central in Vienna (coffeehouse), Cabbages & Condoms in Bangkok (Thai), and any bistro in Paris.
• Weirdest thing I ever ate
  Crocodile, at Carnivore Restaurant in Nairobi. Tasted like chicken...reptilian chicken.
• Farthest I ever went for a good meal
  While on vacation in Spain, we sailed across to Africa to have a cous cous lunch in Morocco. 10 hours roundtrip and worth every minute!
• Best meal ever
  Our 7th wedding anniversary in Budapest- Kacsa Restaurant. "Kacsa" means "duck" in Hungarian, and this place served the most incredible duck I've ever had, right on the Danube, with strolling violinists dressed in velvet...