It's rare to start a meal without Champagne, but two of my guests do not care for Champagne, so we began the evening with three California Chardonnays. The 2001 Kongsgaard is a...

A sumptuous meal began with some of my wife's wonderful deep-fried jumbo back fin crab fritters (I can eat these anytime, anyplace), drunk with a spectacular 1996 Deutz Cuvée William Deutz...

I had avoided dining at Tony Foreman and Cindy Wolf's new Mediterranean tapas restaurant simply because it has become the hottest destination in Baltimore, apparently drawing a noisy, hip crowd....

This was another brilliant meal from Baltimore's top chef, Cindy Wolf. While I enjoy many of her dishes, I tend to fall back on some of my favorites. Her corn...

My favorite smoked salmon, from Brown Trading Company, is a special Scottish salmon smoked to the specifications of New York's great French chef, Daniel Boulud. The subtlety of its intense...

This is a terrific restaurant in Jackson Hole that I highly recommend for both its great wine list and the brilliant cooking of Chef Jeff Drew. The ambience is right...

An excellent restaurant with young chef Ted Schneider at the helm, this lovely venue offers gorgeous views of the village of Beaver Creek and the surrounding mountains. Our meal began...

This is a modern-styled contemporary restaurant in the small village of Edwards, just south of Vail and Beaver Creek, Colorado. The food was very good, with the exception of the...

The food for this meal was prepared by the great French chef, Daniel Boulud, and was, of course, stunning. He deserves even more praise for accomplishing this in the kitchen...