not drinking poison in paris

When I met my friend M for lunch in Milan en route to our friend's wedding in Florence, I became immediately distracted by a wine I...

It should be fairly clear to most first-worlders by now that an appreciation for proper D.O.P. mozzarella is not, in itself, a sign of ...

I'm routinely very critical of the London wine scene on this blog, despite not knowing it half as well as I'd like to. In my ign...

When I finished my long overdue first meal at my good friend Maori Murota 's bento spot by Grands Boulevards, I descended to the kit...

I seem to have had an atypical experience of Dean Street restaurant Duck Soup last winter. At that time it was a relatively new restaur...

I have nice things to say about Glou , unlike seemingly every respectable food writer I can think of. (Am I respectable? I have no idea....

My longtime English friend A and I often refer to one another as the evil twin, never able to agree on who is the good twin ever since d...

I'm sure I'm not the only expat who has occasionally marveled at the aesthetic poverty of Paris beer culture. This is a country ...

Writing about the wines of Bordeaux, I feel perennially obliged, before airing opinions, to quote Plato's Socrates , who said, '...

Since my impolitic skewering of whopper misnomer wine bar La Compagnie des Vins Surnaturels last summer, a number of that restaurant g...

There are myriad indicators of good hospitality in restaurants: prompt service, thoughtful suggestions, graceful reservation systems, et...

It's embarrassing to admit, but my vegetarian upbringing has left me squeamish about chicken. I grew up surrounded by them - my moth...

Not Paris ! Barcelona ! To mitigate the drop in readership that occurs whenever I begin talking about cities other than Paris, I've ...

I learned relatively recently that a restaurant I often passed in the 10ème arrondissement - a miserably named,* anonymous-looking estab...

My friend L and I hadn't intended to go to Racines for lunch. We'd planned to go to Gyoza Bar , a very contemporary Japanese co...

For various reasons, updates will be sporadic for the next week or so. I'll eventually post a few musings on Greek wine, should find I...