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My friend M is a Vietnamese chef in New York. A year ago I was encouraging him to open a restaurant in Paris. Just think, I beamed. Natu...

I thought it would be bigger news when late last year Inaki Aizpitarte opened a shoebox-sized wine shop between Le Chateaubriand and Le ...

I was sitting at Le Bist'Roch in Nuits the other afternoon with my friend R when he brought my attention to a photo of a nude man ...

Despite my enthusiasm for the Yonne town of Vézelay, I had, until a few weeks ago, still yet to pay a visit to La Soeur Cadette and Je...

Bad restaurants, like the proverbial Tolstoyan unhappy family, may be awful in an infinity of ways. We dislike them accordingly. But how...

I'm a bit late in discussing the tsunami of twee Japanese concepts that arrived on my doorstep in the 9ème over the course of last ye...

I used to complain often about a dearth of actual wine bars in Paris. I defined them as places where quality wine could be enjoyed st...

The Native Companion had been hinting that she'd like to visit Brittany for several years. But since no wine is produced there, it ne...

Cosne-sur-Loire is not the most exciting place on earth. It's where life goes on surrounding Sancerre tourism. But it's also whe...

A brief moment of on-stage banter at last Monday's Hamilton Leithauser show at La Boule Noire saw the former Walkmen singer - argu...

For a certain class of Parisian, familiarity with the marché aux puces  is a basic mark of distinction. It doesn't matter if very few...

The most expensive fallacy of wine travel, to which I habitually succumb, is to assume that, to experience the full breadth of a given r...

Half our group missed the visit to historical Sancerre standard-bearers Domaine Vacheron. They decided to spend the morning by the pool...

What a wonderful world we'd live in, if the elusive Great Neighborhood Restaurant existed in numbers commensurate to how often the t...

The town of Sancerre is a bright, windswept agglomeration of medieval belfries and tasting rooms atop a hill with views for miles around...

The entrance to Sancerre legend François Cotat 's tasting room must be one of the most sweetly vexing tableaux in the wine world. On...