Two of my favorite television shows are HBO’s The Wire and The Sopranos. From a script writing perspective, I don’t think I have ever seen a tighter script than David Simon’s and Edward...

To celebrate a good friend’s 60th birthday, we went to Chef Cindy Wolf’s superb restaurant, Charleston, situated in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, a few blocks from the National Aquarium. Four days...

This was my first visit to Mark’s Duck House since Mr. and Mrs. Mark sold the restaurant. Thankfully, we did not see any changes, with the kitchen staff and the...

Although it was a night for a brilliant showing of older California Cabernets, the opening salvos included a crisp, seemingly fully mature 1995 Dom Pérignon and still young, beginning to tighten up...

Essentially, this is my go-to place when I am working in northern California. After working until seven or eight o’clock every night, I am not in the mood for a...

This noteworthy restaurant was highly recommended by Daniel Boulud, who first tasted Chef Susur Lee’s cooking when Lee was a young apprentice in Hong Kong. A genius in terms of...

To honor the whirlwind visit of board member Jeff Leve, who brought a wine I had never before tasted, the 2004 “Château Palmer Hermitage,” we sat down for a mini-horizontal...

This is a sensational venue for refined, sophisticated as well as creative Dim Sum dishes (the dinner menu also offers very ambitious classic Cantonese cuisine) from Chef Ken Tam. Many...

My favorite chef for savory, full-flavored, creative, soulful food is Chef Olivier Müller, a young, 30 something fellow who apprenticed under Daniel Boulud, and runs Daniel’s modern bistro in NYC....