While the rest of us were in glorious food comas late Thursday night, the golf legend was speeding out of his Florida driveway and into a fire hydrant.

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In some ways, Reynards offers what one wishes a dining experience in Manhattan would be: kindness instead of attitude, inoffensive prices, glorious food, and aesthetic variety the clientele is split roughly in half between the stylish and the schlumpy.

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Of course the food there was glorious, I remember enjoying crazy fresh seafood, and crepes once a day with butter and sugar or Nutella and bananas.

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The attraction isn't just the exquisite food served by chef Mauro Colagreco, but the glorious vista of both the Mediterranean and the old town of Menton, which is perfectly framed through the windows.

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The views and little stops along the way make this one of the best (and possibly most overlooked) treks on the planet, a glorious march -- or in my case, occasional scramble, that includes hot springs retreats, delicious local food and rich cultural insight into a relatively unexplored part of Japan.

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