not drinking poison in paris

Image nicked from purecashmagazine.com. Every year people ask me what to buy for the wine geek or aspiring wine geek in their life. Every...

After a few nights spent careening around Madrid en masse guided only by iPhones and good intentions, it was a tremendous relief on our las...

It's hard being a walk-in party of ten on a Friday night. You might as well all wear matching signs that say "Sucker." The fa...

I actually spent about 90% of my time in Madrid viewing sculptures, paintings, and installations at the city's numerous well-appointed ...

Posting about this place not because it was particularly spectacular by any measure, but rather because I found it illustrative of the gene...

A common misconception, when I drag tired friends from bar to random bar in a foreign city, is that I'm searching for The Best Wines. U...

Instead of offering a straight informative review of Q-Tea, a criminally unassuming Chinese restaurant in the 9ème, I'd like to sketch ...

Image swiped from chnm.gmu.edu. The recent uncharacteristic radio silence is not because I have stopped drinking, or thinking too much a...

It figures that what was, objectively speaking, the least interesting tasting on my calendar this month proved to be probably the most sati...

The other night I promised myself just an apéro at Spring Boutique with Josh and my friends D and C. But then the arrival of Josh's e...

I'm not cut out for sticking to themes. Faced with a choice between two mid-range organic Mâcon Chardonnays that I knew to be a little ...

Actually, it's no shocker that after a year and a half here in Paris, including two months living just a few blocks away in the Marais,...

The occasion was there was no occasion. Oysters are plentiful and cheap and in season, and for a few more days last month, I still had run ...

One key piece of advice for drinking in Paris: almost never order cocktails. They just plain suck here. With the notable and laudable excep...

Tasting the wines of Helena Lomazzi, right, with Cyril from Le Verre Volé, left. At what is essentially a loose conference of rebellious ...

The Association des Vins Naturels held its Grand Dégustation on Monday at the Pavillion in the Parc du Buttes Chaumont. I'd actually ...