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Anyone visiting northern Baltimore County during soft-shell crab season (usually May - August) won't find any better than Mark Henry's. His lobster corncake isn't bad either, and of course, the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

I have been recommending this restaurant for nearly twenty years. It has the finest wine list in the southern Rhône, and Tina and Guy Jullien's cuisine just gets better and...

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....