Many insiders in Bordeaux claim that the best private chef in all of Bordeaux is among the kitchen staff at Château Haut-Bailly in Pessac-Leognan. I needed to make a trek...

Serving the Homeless in Miami, Florida  This exquisite meal was held at the home of Bob and Jodi Dickinson, two terrific humanitarians who have been major players in alleviating the...

This was a meal at a private home, catered by one of Savannah's top gourmet forces, Susan Mason. The quality of the food was stunning. She is famous for her...

Benefit for Camillus House and My Neighbors Foundation This was a very impressive meal at the fashionable Strip Steak restaurant in the hip and cool Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach....

This may have been one of the greatest lunches (all six hours of it) that I have ever experienced. When I consider what my favorite foods are - from fatty...

The food was innovative, very flavorful and I can't recommend it highly enough. But I had real problems with the wine list, which is one of those esoteric, hipster lists...

This casual restaurant is special, with a limited menu largely derived from what's available in the market, and had everything I like about a restaurant - nice ambience, a comfortable...

Michael Mina's Wit & Wisdom, Four Seasons Hotel This was my second meal at Wit & Wisdom, an attractive restaurant in the relatively new Four Season Hotel right on the...

This was a fabulous restaurant, a real Swiss bistro, with abundant portions, an absolutely outrageous fine wine list, with terrific California selections and heavy on Rhône wines. The food was...