not drinking poison in paris

Oddly befitting its location in the university-dominated, student-infested 5ème arrondissement - just off the Pantheon , no less - neighbor...

It's a little sad, but purely out of vanity, I have yet to delete any commmentary. Not even this sinister fellow, the substance of whos...

Well, it wasn't precisely a pairing. My friends and I were pre-gaming at Au Nouveau Nez on the way to Saturday's Dean Wareham sho...

Noticing this picture was one of two wonderfully disturbing moments of a recent lunch at 11ème bistro institution Bistrot Paul Bert. The ot...

Just a petit mot about Domaine de l'Ecu's rocking 2010 Muscadets, which I tasted while waiting in line to taste Nicolas Joly '...

At the Renaissance des AOCs tasting I was surprised and delighted to meet Elisabetta Foradori , a trailblazing biodynamic winemaker from T...

My colleagues and I used to pass this place often on the way to lunch at "Japanese Tapas" restaurant Issé , before the latter est...

In any given packed, cavernous, pitch dark wine tasting, it's often difficult to differentiate vignerons whose wines are creating a rea...

A few weeks back I posted a note about the intimate pre-opening soirée of Les Trois Seaux , a new bistro à vin on rue de la Fontaine au ...

The team at Le Bal Café serves the greatest Sunday brunch in Paris. Every detail of the experience - from the NYTimes-worthy coffee , to t...

Tensions began to run high on that last day of our Loire adventure. Due to my ill-timed encounter with Bertrand Jousset and his excellent r...

My friend and traveling companion J had told me serious horror stories about the darkness and freezing temperatures at last year's Dive...

Among the chief occupational hazards of the wine industry are dinners with many other traveling wine professionals. By the time the plats a...

I was remarkably intact the day after Catherine and Pierre Breton 's off-the-chain bacchanalia in Bougeuil. Not bushy-tailed, by any me...

We'd been informed esteemed Loire vignerons Catherine & Pierre Breton were hosting a nice civilized sit-down dinner kind of thing....

Besides the wines themselves, the most unforgettable thing about last Saturday's tasting at Clos Rougeard was mustachioed winemaker Na...