Bon Voyage and Bon Appetit!

Join me as I eat my way around the world!
For me, the way to a country's heart has always been through its stomach. When planning trips abroad most people start with the sights they want to see. I start with what I want to eat and work backwards ‒ from dish to restaurant to a  particular area or city. Visits to major landmarks are fitted around where I can find  the tastiest churros for breakfast or the hottest curry for lunch.  

Monuments once seen go straight onto my been-there-done-that list but I would seriously consider returning to a place just to relive a delicious meal (and already have quite a long countries-I-must-eat-in-again list).
Every time I have visited a new country or tried out a type of cuisine I'd never eaten before I have sworn to myself ‒ and often to whoever I was eating with at the time ‒ that I would have my blog up and running within the week. So on New Year's Day in 2012, I finally got down to it!

People who know me well know there are two things that make me happy ‒ travelling and eating. I'm pretty sure I'm happiest when I can do both at the same time. 
Writing is a close third so in a way this blog  allows me to do what I love best ‒ write about all the weird and wonderful street food and great restaurants I’ve stumbled across on my travels as well as the memorable meals I hope to enjoy on journeys to come. 

I hope my blog will offer you a new way of looking at places and food you are familiar with as well as inspire you to keep discovering those that you haven't encountered before.
Platetrotter is a travel food blog written by Radhina Almeida Coutinho since January 2012. The Platetrotter blog covers food-focused destination experiences – hotel, restaurant and bar reviews, market tours, winery visits, cooking classes, gourmet breaks, indigenous dishes and ingredients.

The blog's author is a communications director by day, working largely in the sphere of luxury hospitality, travel, tourism and destination marketing, in between trying to fulfill a personal quest to eat her way around the globe – a journey that has taken her to more than 60 countries across Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas so far.

Originally from Goa, India, her work has appeared in leading national dailies and magazines in her home country, as well as Singapore, the United States and the United Arab Emirates, Radhina currently lives in the UK from where she plots her next platetrotting adventure.

For examples of her work and media related inquiries, please click here