not drinking poison in paris

When I arranged to harvest with Montgueux Champagne winemaker Manu Lassaigne this September, I had convenience in mind. His is the best ...

In writing about Paris restaurant openings, I'm accustomed to grousing about stillborn fads and failed trendhopping. ( Meatballs , an...

When asked what makes a wine natural, I often reply that a wine is natural when it is bought by natural wine buyers. I'm only being h...

Given that this is a wine blog, I usually avoid posting on chef career moves. The practice risks stoking the already outsize demand in Pa...

Remember that scene in Wayne's World , where Wayne and Garth do impressions of various US states, before being confounded by the unsa...

Like any frequent host in Paris, I've learned to grin vacantly through inarticulate endorsements of "little neighborhood bistro...

When the Native Companion and I first visited Champagne winemaker Emmanuel Lassaigne in Aug. 2012 , the maestro of Montgueux had tantali...

A chef friend whose opinions I value highly once raised a sceptical eyebrow when I praised La Retrobottega proprietor Pietro Russano...

In trying to descry the origins of the hazy aura known as restaurant hype, we often overlook its simplest element, which is thrift. Pat...

I recently lauded fledgling 11ème wine bar Aux Deux Cygnes for bringing a bit of professionalism and style to its gentrification-frontie...

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...