Gourmet
Wine Journal
We started the evening with great smoked salmon, terrific Peking duck, and the unbelievably fat but tasty Wagyu beef from the famous purveyor of beef in New York City, Lobel's....
Read MoreMy favorite restaurant in the world, and a place to recharge my batteries after working ten straight 12 hour days, L'Ami Louis is a palace for incredibly fresh raw products...
Read MoreOne of my two or three favorite Parisian restaurants for fish and shellfish, this famous old brassière/bistro offers the freshest seafood one can find. This is a great spot to...
Read MoreThis is a superb bistro with a great wine list (super Rhônes as well as other offerings) that merits attention from serious eaters. They serve generous portions of impeccably well-made...
Read MoreA marvelous night dedicated to the wines of Graves, in particular, Haut-Brion, with the ringer being the 1947 La Tour-Haut-Brion. After a disappointing beginning with a slightly corked magnum of 1989...
Read MoreChef Cindy Wolf prepared another sumptuous meal, with every course hitting high notes. The Champagne flight was disappointing, with a decrepit bottle of 1982 Dom Pérignon followed by a tart, green, sharp 1990...
Read MoreWhen I was in Paris I treated the great Italian chef, Tom Cerillo (better known as Tommaso, of Brooklyn's restaurant of the same name), to several meals at French bistros....
Read MoreWe had some terrific wines, including the fully mature 1995 Côtes du Rhônes from Domaine Gramenon, a young, vigorous, intensely blackberry and mineral Syrah, the 1995 Cornas Vieilles Vignes from Alain Voge, and the outstanding but...
Read MoreA sensational meal at Baltimore's finest restaurant was matched with some classic Napa Cabernet Sauvignons, primarily from the seventies. We began our evening with two great magnums of Champagne, both...
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