not drinking poison in paris

A friend who edits a fashion magazine once said to me, apropos of my blog, "I love it. But I never have any idea what you're tal...

Chef Christophe Philippe's new Bastille-adjacent restaurant Amarante, like the cacklingly under-designed eponymous restaurant he m...

It's hard not to have strong reactions to the dense, craggy wines of northern Sardinian estate Tenute Dettori . My own feelings are...

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...