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Susur Restaurant

This noteworthy restaurant was highly recommended by Daniel Boulud, who first tasted Chef Susur Lee’s cooking when Lee was a young apprentice in Hong Kong. A genius in terms of...

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Oregon Grille

To honor the whirlwind visit of board member Jeff Leve, who brought a wine I had never before tasted, the 2004 “Château Palmer Hermitage,” we sat down for a mini-horizontal...

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Lai Wah Heen

This is a sensational venue for refined, sophisticated as well as creative Dim Sum dishes (the dinner menu also offers very ambitious classic Cantonese cuisine) from Chef Ken Tam. Many...

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DB Bistro Moderne

My favorite chef for savory, full-flavored, creative, soulful food is Chef Olivier Müller, a young, 30 something fellow who apprenticed under Daniel Boulud, and runs Daniel’s modern bistro in NYC....

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Press Restaurant

Leslie Rudd, owner of Dean and DeLuca as well as Rudd Estate Winery, is also the proprietor of one of the country’s finest “comfort food” restaurants, Press. Comparable to one...

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Charleston

This “Rarest of the Rare” charity dinner benefitted the Hospice du Rhône and the Johns Hopkins Cancer Clinic, and it was a great night for Rhône wine enthusiasts. Colorado retailer...

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Holiday Dinner

This was my first meal at Veritas since their famous chef Scott Bryan left, replaced by one of the sous chefs that had worked for Daniel Boulud for many years,...

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DB Bistro Moderne

My favorite chef for savory, full-flavored, creative, soulful food is Chef Olivier Müller, a young, 30 something fellow who apprenticed under Daniel Boulud, and runs Daniel’s modern bistro in NYC....

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Masa’s

Thanks to a dear friend, I got to know the prodigious Chef Masa Yoshi Takayama when he was cooking, or should I say slicing, in Los Angeles. Since he’s been...

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