Gourmet
Wine Journal

New Year's Eve, 2002 (At a Friend's House)

We started the evening with great smoked salmon, terrific Peking duck, and the unbelievably fat but tasty Wagyu beef from the famous purveyor of beef in New York City, Lobel's....

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L'Ami Louis, Paris, France

My favorite restaurant in the world, and a place to recharge my batteries after working ten straight 12 hour days, L'Ami Louis is a palace for incredibly fresh raw products...

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Le Dome, Paris France

One of my two or three favorite Parisian restaurants for fish and shellfish, this famous old brassière/bistro offers the freshest seafood one can find. This is a great spot to...

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Repaire de Cartouche, Paris, France

This is a superb bistro with a great wine list (super Rhônes as well as other offerings) that merits attention from serious eaters. They serve generous portions of impeccably well-made...

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Bordeaux: Dinner with Friends

A marvelous night dedicated to the wines of Graves, in particular, Haut-Brion, with the ringer being the 1947 La Tour-Haut-Brion. After a disappointing beginning with a slightly corked magnum of 1989...

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Chez Parker: An Italian Festival

When I was in Paris I treated the great Italian chef, Tom Cerillo (better known as Tommaso, of Brooklyn's restaurant of the same name), to several meals at French bistros....

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Dining At Home
Cindy Wolf's Charleston Restaurant - Les Oenarchs Dinner

Chef Cindy Wolf prepared another sumptuous meal, with every course hitting high notes. The Champagne flight was disappointing, with a decrepit bottle of 1982 Dom Pérignon followed by a tart, green, sharp 1990...

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Restaurant Palena, Washington, DC

After a charitable tasting of 2000 Bordeaux to benefit the American Heart Association in Washington, DC, a small group of us retired to one of DC's outstanding restaurants, Palena, on...

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Mark's Duck House

We had some terrific wines, including the fully mature 1995 Côtes du Rhônes from Domaine Gramenon, a young, vigorous, intensely blackberry and mineral Syrah, the 1995 Cornas Vieilles Vignes from Alain Voge, and the outstanding but...

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