not drinking poison in paris

If coverage of some of my favorite Paris addresses is long overdue, it's usually because I inadvertently befriended the staff and / o...

For better or worse, the fate of tiny 11ème arrondissement caviste and wine bar La Cave du Daron seems intimately linked to its famous ne...

On the surface, there appears to be no reason whatsoever for a wine traveler to visit Rota. It is the runt of the sherry towns, alm...

Given the tumultuous social jockeying that surrounds dinner invitations during the Loire salons , I hadn't expected to get to han...

A time-capsule wine bar and restaurant like Le Bougainville , ensconced on the dowdy side of the Galerie Vivienne , perfectly embodies th...

Tasting new releases with my favorite Beaujolais producers is often kind of embarrassing. After saying hello and getting the usual opti...

With Au Passage currently topping many critics most-visited lists (including mine), it's easy to forget that, before James Henry g...

I found myself with a late afternoon to kill in Angers on the Friday before this years' tasting salons. With the aim of avoiding drin...

Don't get me wrong: the Native Companion and I certainly appreciated our visit to Bodegas Gonzalez Byass, which occupies a seemingly ...

Aggrieved chefs and their supporters routinely cite, among the evils of journalism, the neophilic tendency of critics to descend upon a n...

What little information was available indicated  Casa Bigote was among the best restaurants in Sanlucar. In our defense, Sanlucar is a c...

I tend to distrust large restaurants - places where, if you scream, no one would hear a sound. Even at the grandest, most expensive large...

What does it mean for savvy young Parisian restaurateurs to advertise their appreciation for post-war cabaret, as chef Marc Cordonnier an...

A depressing reality sinks in when one attempts study of sherry, or, for that matter, of Spanish and Portuguese wine in general: ...

I take it as a given that I am not part of a target audience for Le Fooding , the French culinary media outlet. If Le Fooding were princi...

I think I know what was going through the Native Companion's mind when she booked us a hotel in Chipiona on our first visit to Andalu...