not drinking poison in paris

Seeking to wring every last drink out of my brief stay in Milan, I arranged to meet my friend and host M for last call at Bar Basso , a ...

As a sort of addendum to my post on Pierre Jancou 's splendid new cave-à-manger from earlier this week, I thought I'd share a...

When serial-restaurateur and natural wine authority Pierre Jancou first informed me a few months back that he'd be changing the con...

My visit to Milan this past spring was so cursory that it should not reflect poorly upon the city's dining scene if I say that my ...

As I poked around Peck I tried to take a couple pics. Got scolded. Apparently Peck - an historical Milanese fine food emporium - is as ...

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...