An evening with friends began with the brilliant 1996 Billecart-Salmon Cuvée Nicolas François Billecart Champagne. With exquisite minerality, laser-like citrus notes, full-bodied intensity, and delicately flavored, this is a superb champagne...

We had a fabulous meal at this amazing Thai restaurant, which has one of the finest wine lists in the country (prices are unbelievable). Pardon me if I have spelled...

A second terrific meal at Lotus of Siam was spent devouring an assortment of seafood dishes, salads, phenomenal fish soup, deep-fried lobster, and the amazing northern Thai larb, which is...

A carry-in Chinese dinner with friends at home in Beaver Creek, Colorado was so-so, but the wines were brilliant. The star of the whites was the 2004 Guigal Condrieu Dorine. I...

Chef Julian Serrano is still one of the purist of all the great chefs working in America. Resisting the temptation to expand or to brand his cooking throughout the country,...

Brasserie Daniel was packed with people when we visited, which is certainly encouraging given the fact that the fine wine and food business is estimated to be off by 30%-40%...

This is the tapas bar and casual restaurant of José Gomez, the owner of Spain’s Joselito, the country’s most famous farmer/proprietor of the Iberico Bellota hams. Sula has over 500...

It is encouraging to see this splendid restaurant in downtown Baltimore continue to do well in what is undoubtedly the worst recession since the Great Depression of 1929. I chose...

My favorite venue in New York City for casual, but superb dining is Daniel Boulud’s DB Bistro. His chef (from Alsace), the young, but very talented Olivier Muller, only served...