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Following the Robert Parker Gala Dinner #1, the same group of chefs prepared an even bigger Gala #2 the following evening at the Hotel Shilla to conclude my educational tastings...

For anyone visiting Korea, Hotel Shilla is a must stop, a remarkable venue sitting high on a bluff with views in all directions. All of the hotel’s restaurants, including the...

One of the great modern-day Cabernet Sauvignons is consistently Shafer’s Hillside Select, and the 2002, a vintage that produced many classic Cabernets, was sensational. Inky blue/purple-colored, it offered up notes of pain grillé, crème...

Two extraordinarily gracious donors spent more than $100,000 to have wines from my cellar served with a meal cooked by Daniel Boulud in their home. This was a memorable evening...

Park B. Smith, the renowned wine collector and proprietor of Veritas (his real job is actually in textiles, where he is a highly respected magnate), has been a wine lover...

Chef: Daniel Boulud Special Guests: Elaine and Manfred Krankl, Sine Qua Non The venue for this dinner, hosted by two generous members of the Naples community to benefit local children’s...

The food for this meal was prepared by the great French chef, Daniel Boulud, and was, of course, stunning. He deserves even more praise for accomplishing this in the kitchen...

As one can see, the food from so many great chefs was outrageous, and everyone marveled at how they could do such precision service, perfectly prepared plates, and get everything...

The first night of two extraordinarily successful inaugural charity meals to benefit cancer research at the Dana Farber Institute in Boston and for the AppleTree Institute which supports disadvantaged children...