not drinking poison in paris

Every so often - usually in the dining sections of popular newspapers - I read about the Copper Penny Trick, wherein an author dispels red...

My friends R, R2, and A celebrated the last night of their recent visit to Paris with a meal at their favorite restaurant here, the rightly...

Renowned natural Beaujolais vignerons Jean and Agnès Foillard run a small, well-appointed chambre d'hôte just outside the center of V...

Besides the confusing name* - which has inspired several early reviewers to harp on senselessly about an imaginary nostalgic quality to the...

Karim Vionnet was in no state to continue drinking with us, the evening we arrived in Villié-Morgon , but he kindly made sure the kitchen ...

The other Saturday my visiting friend C and I attended the Lobster Sandwich lunch at Spring ,* along with a whole gang of other friends. Yo...

On Sunday afternoon we coasted into the town of Villié-Morgon , the heart of the natural Beaujolais scene. The operation of the late great ...

For several months my friend J had been intermittently proposing we get dinner at Le Marsangy , a dingy unassuming burrow of a bistro midwa...

Sometime during the cheese course of our hit-or-miss pit stop in Juliénas , my friend C expressed confidence in the ride ahead, but added t...

I'll admit to having had a kind of skeptical interest in attending a recent tasting with winemaker Valérie Guérin of Domaine Les ...

The remorse one feels upon hearing that a favored bottle is out of stock at the caviste, probably never to return, is, when one gets lucky,...

Note on the text: due to an infuriating error, in which I deleted from my iPhone the photos that were to accompany this text before having ...

My friend D visits us each men's fashion week from Athens, where he has an excellent high fashion boutique in the Kolonaki area. (Just...

I came upon Septime the old-fashioned way: by happening to stroll past one day, and noticing, in addition to the ambitious décor of the...

This time the blog silence is wine-related. My friends J, C, and I have been tooling around Beaujolais on bicycles for the past few days. ...

My architect friend C's role, on the occasional wine region sojourns we take together with her husband J, typically consists of directi...