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Jean-Claude Lapalu occupies an interesting position in the pantheon of contemporary Beaujolais. The son and grandson of winegrowers, he ...

As diners and critics, we're willing to discern greater depths in a chef's plates if he or she has led a swashbuckling lifestyle,...

Some tasting appointments in Beaujolais are difficult to obtain because a given winemaker's work is so sought-after that he or she ...

When I first wrote about Jane Drotter's splendid contemporary bistrot YARD in April 2014 , I couldn't help expressing astonishm...

Everything about  Entrée des Artistes Pigalle  proprietors Fabien Lombardi and Edouard Vermynck's previous bar-à-manger on rue de C...

Tucked among the fulsome green hills of Sagy-le-Haut is the cellar of Julien Guillot, the charming third-generation winemaker of biodynam...

I credit former La Cave de l'Insolite proprietor Michel Moulherat for introducing me to natural wine. His wasn't the closest win...

Paris has streets that hide in plain sight - overlooked byways that, due to poor sun exposition or traffic redundancy, get circumvented b...

So much has been written about Abruzzese winemaker Emidio Pepe 's majestic montepulciani and the ethereal delicacy of his equally a...

On the surface, not much differentiates Pierre Gagnaire -trained chef Atsushi Tanaka's Restaurant A.T. from most staid Left Bank fin...

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...