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Dinner at home with friends included the wonderful pastrami smoked salmon from Russ and Daughters as well as some gorgeous backfin crab cakes made from Maryland crabs that are just...

This wonderful little bistro, which can’t seat more than 15 or 18 people by the look of it, is run by a young Asian couple. It features terrific French bistro...

Chef Luca got some fresh baby octopus in, and created a wonderfully, garlicky marinara to complement the sweet and tender octopus. The other dishes, including the wonderful pizza, were all...

With some good friends, we had a casual meal celebrating my complete recovery from a total knee replacement. The sliced Joselito sliced Ibérico ham was as wonderful as one always...

This was another extravagant bash and free-for-all at Mark’s Duck House, and there were a number of wines that I didn’t even get a chance to taste, but I was...

This is a combination of two meals, since I bought over a pound of fresh Alba white truffles from Primizie Fine Foods, a fabulous purveyor of high-quality Italian products and seller...

With friends from France, we ate in, with my wife doing all the cooking except the Private Reserve steaks from Flannery’s Fine Foods, which I grilled. The food was classic...

The stars of this evening for me wine-wise were the over-achieving 2004 Auxey-Duresses from Lalou Bize Leroy, the brilliant, chalky, crisp, minerally 1996 Blanc de Blancs Champagne from Stéphane Coquillette, and of...

This popular BYOB restaurant in Hunt Valley/Cockeysville, Maryland has terrific casual Italian food (although the chef from Tuscany and the owner from Bari on the Adriatic coastline are far more...