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Web Release
6 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Web Release
Spice Up Father's Day at Spartan Sports Bar with Tacos & Margaritas for Just AED 75
This Father's Day, Spartan Sports Bar at the Sheraton Mall of the Emirates is serving up serious flavor and festive vibes with a Tacos & Margarita Special that's too good to miss. From Monday, June 16 to Sunday, June 22, guests can treat dad to a Surf & Turf taco combo and a classic Margarita cocktail—all for just AED 75. Because let's face it, he's earned it. Whether dad is a lover of bold bites or just appreciates a good drink and great company, Spartan Sports Bar's Father's Day Special is the perfect excuse to get the family together and celebrate in style. The Father's Day Tacos & Margarita special includes: 1 Margarita cocktail – Refreshing, zesty, and expertly shaken. – Refreshing, zesty, and expertly shaken. Surf & turf tacos – A dynamic duo featuring 1 shrimp taco and 1 beef taco, packed with flavor and flair. All for just AED 75, available all day from June 16 to 22. Celebrate the Spartan Way With its vibrant ambiance, stylish interiors, and globally inspired menu, Spartan Sports Bar is the go-to spot for those who want to elevate their everyday dining. The Father's Day promo offers the perfect blend of indulgence and value, whether you're surprising dad with a night out or bringing the whole crew together for a lively lunch or dinner. Location: Spartan Sports Bar, Sheraton Mall of the Emirates, Dubai Dates: Monday, June 16 – Sunday, June 22 Offer: Tacos & Margarita Special – AED 75
The Sun
a day ago
- Entertainment
- The Sun
M&S shoppers race to buy £3.50 margarita in a can that's has a new and improved feature that fans are going wild for
WITH summer now here, we're all dreaming of relaxing in the park or the garden with a cheeky drink in hand. And shoppers are going wild for the latest collection of tinned cocktails from Marks & Spencer. 3 3 3 The new collection of goodies has launched in store and there's something for everyone. The M&S store in Heswall shared the summer drinks on TikTok writing: "Look like summer." The original collection includes favourites such as mojitos, pina coladas and cosmos, but they've gone more experimental this time. M&S has some fan favourites up for grabs this summer, like Apertivio Spritz, which is made from bitter orange flavours and sparkling white wine. There's also a mint and elderflower Hugo Spritz and a Limoncello Spritz. Also up for grabs is an exotic Sake Spritz, made with a blend of the Japanese liquor in a tropical lyche flavour. But there's one cocktail that has everyone excited to try. Included in the new range of drinks is a margarita made with blanco tequila, zestty limes and sweet agave syrup. While M&S has released the iconic cocktail before, in the past it has been a fizzy version. But now shoppers are thrilled to see it come without the fizz and it costs just £3.50. The £3.50 M&S buy that'll make your whole house smell like a 'boujee candle' The TikTok video was a hit with viewers who couldn't hide their excitement over the new collection. One person wrote: "Hope this means M&S are finally selling a proper margarita that's not fizzy!" which the store liked, hinting it was. Another commented: 'Those little 14% ones are chef's kiss." "M&S STAYS WINNING," penned a third. Meanwhile a fourth said: "Omg the Hugo." "Heaven,' claimed a fifth.
2 days ago
- Entertainment
A debut novel explores family relationships and cultural displacement
In her debut novel, Misophonia, Dana Vowinckel explores the cultural diaspora through one teenager's summer across Berlin, Jerusalem, and Chicago. It's a coming of age story that balances the narratives of a daughter and her father as well as the fifteen-year-old protagonist's abrupt (and reluctant) reunion with her mother. The book is also a semi-autobiographical trek through parts of Vowinckel's own life. Born in Berlin into an American-Jewish-German family, the author grew up between Chicago and Berlin and her novel manages to capture the sometimes awkward, oftentimes tender, dynamics of a family pulled across continents and histories. Though it explores the travails of teenage girlhood, the book also delves into the nuances of being Jewish and German and the challenges of reconciliation when your goals and feelings collide with world events. 'Language is at the core of the book, not identity,' Vowinckel explained in a recent interview in New York. 'It would be a mistake to read it as purely an identity novel,' she says. Critics have praised the novel for its rich, contrasting ingredients and Vowinckel's ability to narrate the emotions of its teenage protagonist with warmth and clarity. The book won the Mara Cassens Prize, a German literary award given annually for the best German debut novel, and earned Vowinckel the literature prize of the Association of Arts and Culture of the German Economy. It was also shortlisted for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize which celebrates outstanding new publications written in German. The 27-year old Vowinckel, who studied linguistics and literature in Berlin, Toulouse and Cambridge, was in New York to promote the recently published English translation of Misophonia by HarperVia. (The book was translated from its original German by Adrian Nathan West.) Vowinckel's visit included events at Germany's Consulate General of New York - which promotes cultural, intellectual, and artistic exchanges with Germany - and Deutsches Haus at New York University. Misophonia opens in Chicago, with parts set in Berlin and Israel. It follows a teenage protagonist, Margarita, as she travels to her father's birthplace in Israel with the mother who left her when she was a toddler. Margarita shares a special bond with her father, Avi - a doting Israeli who is a cantor at their local synagogue - ever since her mother, Marsha, abandoned the family. Eventually, arrangements are made - without Margarita's knowledge - for her to meet Marsha in Israel before returning to Germany. Blindsided, she wants no part of this overdue reconciliation with a mother she hardly knows. Meanwhile, in Germany, Avi tries to fill the hole left by Margarita's absence with a trip of his own, embarking on a personal journey, both hope-inducing and despairing. Writing the book through the prism of dueling narratives - switching between a teenage girl, and her father - allowed Vowinckel to engage readers in an unusual point-of-view combination, she says. Accounts of Jewish congregational life in Berlin are mixed with detailed descriptions of the awkwardness and lust that go along with living inside a female teenage body. 'Both perspectives were very interesting to me,' Vowinckel told the Chicago Review of Books in May. 'With a 15-year-old, there's early sexuality and kind of being lost in the world, contrasted with the very lonely, quiet life of Avi,' she said. Straddling the two narratives also helped balance the exploration of imperfect family relationships and larger cultural displacement, the author says. 'I think it was very helpful for me to have a protagonist with a very specific job description because that gives you rhythm to the text,' Vowinckel says. 'It made it very easy for me to start this big novel project with this very calm, laconic voice, and then mix it with Margarita.'
Forbes
6 days ago
- Lifestyle
- Forbes
At New York's Casa Bond Noho the Regional Diversity Of Mexican Food Is In Full Flourish
Most of the ingredients for dishes like tacos gobandador at Casa Bond are imported from Mexico. The recent evolution of Mexican food in New York has been gratifying, not so much because of deviation from the classics but by the refining of them and giving them a modern twist in terms of color, presentation and better ingredients. In the case of Casa Bond Noho, the majority of those ingredients are what owners Rodrigo, Abrajan, Mike Khuu and Luis Villanueva pride themselves on importing from Mexico. Well-set tables within a modern Mexican design provide a convivial ambience to Casa Bond. Their last restaurant was Casa Tulum at the South Street Seaport, which I very much enjoyed. The new place in NoHo is about the same size, with a happy long bar that leads to covered tables, enchanting lighting, potted ferns and comfortable chairs. The piped-in music can be annoying and is unnecessary. The menu draws from Tulum, the Yucatán, Baja California and Sinaloa, starting with a well-textured guacamole with chunks of lobster, pistachio nuggets, a dash of habanero, jicama and cilantro, to be scooped up with totopos corn crackers. It goes very well with a nicely crafted Margarita. Guacamole is full of textures from pine nuts and lobster. There are three ceviches (you can taste all of them for $49), and I especially favored the one with translucent fluke, cucumber lime, cilantro, arbol chile with a crunch of sea salt. Seasoning is everything at Casa Bond. Enchiladas Suisses come with a green mole sauce. The true measure of a Mexican kitchen depends on the quality of its tortillas, and Casa Bond's are absolutely superb––the right thickness, the right puffiness, the right chew and a good flavor of corn or wheat. The latter enwraps a quesadilla of slowly cooked short rib braised in Negro Modelo beer, with shredded, melting cheddar and morita adobo sauce. The enchilada s suizas are a substantial meal, full of abundant chicken, a pretty lacing of green tomatillo, and creamy serrano salsa, with a blend of melted cheeses. Aqua chile negro toasts at Casa Bond I hadn't expected ravioli on a Mexican menu but they're made with huitlacoche,ricotta, white truffle oil, Grana Padana cheese and fresh epazote and are a revelation of flavors that encourage more idea like this. There are three dishes meant for two but will easily serve a table of four, like the juicy confit duck carnitas with alubias beans, pickled onions and a spark of jalapeño. ou may sample three tangy ceviches on the menu at Casa Bond. For those who prefer seafood the Baja fish (for two) is a mahi mahi with cucumber mango coleslaw and habanero aïoli, while the camarones shrimp are well seasoned and served with wild rice and a puree of plantains. Every one of these dishes expands the dimensions of traditional examples you may have had elsewhere but rarely with such a synthesis of sweet, sour, salty, hot and other flavors along with wonderful textures, soft, oozing, crackling and crunchy. This carries through desserts with a lava chocolate cake with pine nuts, mole and white sesame seeds ice cream, as well as light, crunchy churros fritters with the added surprise of caramel mousse along with the usual chocolate dipping sauce, Casa Bond's wine list is sufficient for those who don't want one of the exotic cocktails or beer, and includes at least one Mexican wine from Guadalajara. One always enters a Mexican restaurant with certain expectations for certain favorite dishes, but Casa Bond goes way beyond the expected by adding to the rich diversity of regional cuisines of a kind one will only find here. CASA BOND NOHO 334 Bowery 917-639-3009 Open nightly. Sat. & Sun. For lunch.
GMA Network
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- GMA Network
Margarita Fores' son Amado ties the knot with Carmela Fortuna
Margarita Fores' son Amado has tied the knot with Carmela Fortuna. Congratulations! On his Instagram Stories, Amado has reposted snaps and videos of his wedding day, which looked absolutely happy. According to the posts, Fr. Tito Caluag was the officiant, Sonja Ocampo provided the beautiful cake, and guests included Representative Sandro Marcos and broadcaster Korina Sanchez, whose Instagram post showed President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos, Jr., and First Lady Louise Liza Marcos were also in attendance. In her post, Sanchez wished for the newlyweds to "stay on Cloud 9 for eternity." "Margarita your Mom is grinning from Heaven," she added. In February, Amado announced Margarita's untimely passing, saying "It is with a heavy heart that I share the sudden passing of my Mom, Margarita A. Forés." "Our family is mourning this unexpected loss, and we kindly ask for your prayers during this time. We will be able to share more in due time," he added. Margarita, who was named Asia's Best Female Chef in 2016, is the genius behind restaurants like Cibo, Grace Park, Lusso, and Cafe Bola. Her son, Amado, followed in her footsteps, opening successful restaurants like A mano and Steak and Frice. In March, Margarita was honored with posthumous award by The World's 50 Best Restaurants, which Amado received in Seoul, South Korea. He also received the Presidential Medal of Merit given to Margarita and other cultural icons including Nora Aunor and Gloria Romero last May. But enough of the grieving for now. Congratulations and best wishes to Amado and his beautiful bride, Carmela! See Sanchez's Instagram post. — LA, GMA Integrated News
