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The big holiday bash at Mark’s Duck House featured their exquisite special-order dim sum plus many additions, such as the deep-fried whole fish, clams with black bean sauce, their roast...

This has always been one of my “go-to” bistros in Paris. I hadn’t been there in about 18 months, and it was a thrill to go back. It is run...

This is still my favorite spot for a Parisian lunch of the best seafood and shellfish money can buy. This report encompasses two meals, but at both meals I couldn’t...

Another superb meal from Baltimore City’s finest chef and a perennial James Beard nominee, Cindy Wolf. (She actually deserves to win the award, but Baltimore doesn’t seem to get the...

I was very impressed with the dim sum at this restaurant. It was creative, very flavorful, and to me, as impressive in its flavors and character as the dim sum...

Even given the global economic crisis, Bar Boulud is teeming with diners coming and going, enjoying what is probably the country’s finest assortment of charcuterie, terrines and patés. Not to...

This was a super night at my favorite local restaurant outside Baltimore City, in the horse country of Hunt Valley, the Oregon Grille. It is basically a steak and seafood...

A remarkable and mind-bogging array of creative sashimi and sushi from perhaps the world’s greatest master of sashimi and sushi, Masa Takayama oversees a sushi bar that probably sits no...

There may not be a better restaurant for extraordinarily pure and creative French cuisine than what the young, 29-year-old Grégory Pugin serves at Veritas. His food is outrageously superb. Moreover,...