Thursday, July 7

            Dr. Miguel Sanchez Romera is a neurologist from Argentina who just opened, wait…not a clinic, but a restaurant in Manhattan called Romera New York.  Specializing in epilepsy and Alzheimer’s, Dr. Romera moonlighted as a chef while practicing medicine in Spain.  Critics have called his cuisine “neurogastonomy”.  Dr. Romera simply says that people eat with their brains not their stomachs, so he tries to create a holistic experience for all five senses.  Romera’s continued obsession with food while doing his hospital work eventually caused him and his wife to self-finance a restaurant for him to cook in called the L’Esguard.  His restaurant in New York is appropriately in the Dream Downtown hotel.