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Restaurant Citronelle, Washington, DC

I  would have to rank the cooking of Michel Richard alongside that of New York's Daniel Boulud as the finest French-inspired cuisine in America. His style is completely different from...

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Oenarch Dinner, Baltimore Country Club

This was a blind vertical of the famed Martha's Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon from Heitz Cellars. All of the wines, except for the corked bottles of 1990, 1988 and 1984, showed plenty of cedar, cassis...

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Dinner Chez Parker

I  was both chef and sommelier for a night of debauchery at my home while my wife and daughter were at the beach. This was a blind tasting with some...

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Dining At Home
Dinner at Mark's Duck House

This was an enormous array of wines drunk with a magnificent display of dim sum from my favorite Hong Kong-styled Chinese restaurant in northern Virginia, Mark's Duck House. There were...

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Two meals at Vail's Left Bank Restaurant

Two meals consisting of tuna tartar, foie gras chaud, steak au poivre blanc, care d'agneau, chocolate soufflé, pasta with summer truffles, and consumé of lobster were all superb. Between mountain...

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Caves Petrissans, Paris, France

This is actually a wine bar/shop with a tiny bistro attached. I highly recommend it for its classic bistro food as well as wines that can be purchased. I was...

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L'Ami Louis, Paris, France

I had a friend of mine bring six bottles of recently bottled 2000 Bordeaux in order to get an early look at how this spectacular vintage is performing from bottle....

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La Régalade, Paris, France

Currently, this is Paris's most popular bistro. In order to get a table at this tightly packed, noisy restaurant, reservations must be made weeks in advance. I can not say...

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Grand Vefour, Paris, France

After I washed my mouth out with some delicious Blanc de Blancs Champagne from Taittinger, we had two bottles of classic Bordeaux. Both were decanted at the beginning of the meal....

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