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With Chef Charlie Palmer's superb yellow fin tuna tartare, I set out a selection of California's better Chardonnays along with some white Burgundies. As the scores attest, this was a...

I've been several times now to Angèle since I moved here less than a year ago. It's something of a favored lunchtime café of the local Napa wine trade. In...

Magdalena, with British chef Marc Levy manning the kitchen, has the potential to be one of the finest restaurants in all of Maryland. The restaurant and the luxury boutique hotel,...

With special guest Frédéric Engerer, administrator of Château Latour, and Florence Rogers-Pinault, the owner's daughter, this special meal set up by The Wine Advocate turned out to be a spectacular evening of...

Eventually I plumped for Bocco di Lupo, just a five-minute walk from Piccadilly in Soho, nestling in the heart of theatreland. Opening back in 2008, the name translates as "mouth...

This was a magnificent meal at Blackberry Farm, a place that had been on my bucket list for a while. It is considered one of the most luxurious and tranquil...

This superb bistro is located in the heart of downtown Perpignan and specializes in local southwest cuisine. The wine list is small, but offers solid wines at reasonable prices. Bordeaux,...

I must have first visited the 30-plus year old wine country culinary institution that is Cindy Pawlcyn's Mustards Grill in Yountville over 10 years ago. I still remember the melt-in-your-mouth...

In my roundup of 2015, the one where I drone on about some rapper from Milton Keynes before detailing 19th century clarets that I thought were quite nifty over the...