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Our afternoon in Serralunga d'Alba amounted, finally, to a spiral out to nowheresville, since 90% of the town was shut in August, incl...

I'm late in mentioning this, due to a towering backlog of posts about a recent trip to Piemonte (more to come!), but my friend Josh Adl...

Ask any restaurateur what he or she looks for when dining out, and you'll probably get a perfectly concise description of 18ème bistro ...

Should you plan a trip to the Barolo region, everyone you know will tell you to do everything in your power to visit Roberto Conterno, wine...

I've just been informed by a colleague that Auvergnat bistro Le Petit Vendôme, the Opéra area's greatest lunch spot, is set to clos...

"I'm going to be a slight rip-off." "That so?" Ordinarily you can't go wrong taking dining advice from wine...

In any given wine region, there's bound to be a learning curve for the first-time traveler, as over the course of a few winemaker visit...

Anticipating a dinner with friends from New York in town for fashion week, I booked a table two weeks in advance for a Monday night at Satu...

To my mind the only truly mysterious aspect of David Lynch 's new Paris nightclub Silencio is that the bar is the size of a coatcheck. ...

One advantage of traveling through wine regions with people who are totally uninterested in wine is that sometimes in bored desperation the...

I'm continually making idle chatter about the prospect of one day opening up a wine bar in Paris. The idea is very far from realisation...

I had been concerned, when agreeing to vacation in Italy in August, that we'd encounter nothing but summer closures wherever we went. M...

Because one of my favorite chefs and fellow natural wine afficionados requested it, here is an attempt at a summary in French of my recent...

The second-most curious thing about the inconsistently ambitious new 20ème bistro Le Chatomat is the name, which in American English sound...

My first reaction upon walking into Solativo Vinosteria , a wine bar in Ivrea until recently co-owned by the Ferrando family, was one of ...

After fleeing from the malevolent fraudulence on parade at last week's opening of " La Compagnie des Vins Surnaturels ," my ...