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The similarities with between the restaurant Sicilian chef Fabrizio Ferrara opened last fall -  Osteria Ferrara  - and his former restaur...

Few industries are as plagued with inefficiencies as that of Italian specialty shops in Paris. Prices are often rapacious. And queues are...

As diners and critics, we're willing to discern greater depths in a chef's plates if he or she has led a swashbuckling lifestyle,...

So much has been written about Abruzzese winemaker Emidio Pepe 's majestic montepulciani and the ethereal delicacy of his equally a...

A chef friend whose opinions I value highly once raised a sceptical eyebrow when I praised La Retrobottega proprietor Pietro Russano...

I thought it would be bigger news when late last year Inaki Aizpitarte opened a shoebox-sized wine shop between Le Chateaubriand and Le ...

A familiar quandary arises when discussing places like charming new 17ème arrondissement wine bar Lucien La Chance . I want to encourage...

As a foreigner in Paris of a certain profusely fertile age group, I often wonder what it would be like to raise a child here. These reve...

I still read Pitchfork . But since it now takes less time to download albums than it does to parse reviews, I usually just peek at the p...

Good or bad, a meal never quite gets replicated, because too many variables are in play. Menus change, weather shifts, vintages turn, st...

Florence is the only place I've ever been pickpocketed. As a friend and I snacked on one of the support columns of the Ponte Santa ...

It's a travel truism that the more friends one travels with, the less one sees. Monuments, museums, and moments of local colour rush...

Florence, owing to its peerless artistic heritage of glorious renaissance treasures, is a good place to get suckered on industrial wine...

In the same way that many fine-dining waiters wish to be wizards whose assistants, the busser staff, do all actual plate-clearing, many ...

A good way for a writer to earn money is to cultivate a reputation for authority on a subject rich people like. Wine and food are quite...

There would not, initially, seem to be much purpose in my writing anything at all about Procopio Angelo , the eponymous restaurant of ...

The remarkable hyperactivity of Paris food-blogging is partly due to the outsize international attention paid what is essentially a med...

Before we caught our train down to Florence, we took a very early lunch at a restaurant one of my friends had booked, Antica Trattor...

My visit to Milan this past spring was so cursory that it should not reflect poorly upon the city's dining scene if I say that my ...

As I poked around Peck I tried to take a couple pics. Got scolded. Apparently Peck - an historical Milanese fine food emporium - is as ...