This was another extravagant bash and free-for-all at Mark’s Duck House, and there were a number of wines that I didn’t even get a chance to taste, but I was...

Chef Luca got some fresh baby octopus in, and created a wonderfully, garlicky marinara to complement the sweet and tender octopus. The other dishes, including the wonderful pizza, were all...

The stars of this evening for me wine-wise were the over-achieving 2004 Auxey-Duresses from Lalou Bize Leroy, the brilliant, chalky, crisp, minerally 1996 Blanc de Blancs Champagne from Stéphane Coquillette, and of...

This popular BYOB restaurant in Hunt Valley/Cockeysville, Maryland has terrific casual Italian food (although the chef from Tuscany and the owner from Bari on the Adriatic coastline are far more...

Two friends from Singapore had treated my wife and I very generously on our visit to that country, and we wanted to reciprocate on their trip to Maryland, thus our...

As I have written before, the two greatest chefs from Valence to the Mediterranean coastline, in that corridor which encompasses the Rhône Valley and Provence, are Anne-Sophie Pic of Restaurant...

With the crisp, steely, mineral-laced 2008 Vatan Sancerre Clos de Neore, my wife and I enjoyed some of our favorite dishes at this marvelous, turn of the century restaurant/brasserie in Montparnasse....

L’Ami Louis was packed the two times my wife and I visited on our recent trip to France, and we essentially had the identical meal and wines on each occasion....

A magical restaurant and small hotel just outside a magical village, Lourmarin, Le Fenière has the one of the best chefs of the Rhône Valley and Provence, Reine Sammut. All...