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With the sumptuous food of Baltimore's top chef, Cindy Wolf, we did a blind tasting of 2000 Piedmontese wines. This is a very ripe, concentrated, somewhat atypical vintage. I suspected...

I suppose it's unfair for one person to have two meals of a lifetime within three days, but hey ... someone's gotta do it. The menu was exactly the same...

One of the highlights of my trip to Japan was the opening of Joël Robuchon's luxury restaurant in Tokyo called Château Robuchon. Ten years ago Joël Robuchon was considered by...

Repertoire is a European restaurant in the Hotel Seiyo Ginza, which was my base of operations in Tokyo during my week of tastings, symposiums, lectures, etc. The Japanese chef, who...

This restaurant not far from Mt. Fuji is considered one of the finest of the traditional styled Japanese restaurants. Shoes are removed and there are no tables as guests sit...

Chef Toshiji Yuki is considered the greatest modern day chef in Japan, and the Kitcho restaurant in the upscale Hotel Seiyo Ginza is one of Japan's finest restaurants. Chef Yuki's...

This is my favorite restaurant in the world when you simply need to eat ... superbly. As the late, great A. J. Liebling said, this is a restaurant for "feeders."...

An assortment of varied wines were enjoyed with the multiple delicacies from the battery of Hong Kong chefs who inhabit the kitchens of Mark's Duck House. It's always dim sum,...

My favorite bistro for serious eating in Bordeaux is La Tupina, located in the old part of the city, not far from the river. The chef, Jean-Pierre Xiradakis, prepares the...