There are two Kabuki restaurants in Madrid. This one is located on the same block as the Hotel Wellington (where my wife and I were staying), and I had heard...

Another excellent meal at this excellent BYOB Italian trattoria in Cockeysville, Maryland included homemade, top-flight, simple, rustic yet flavorful food. This is not sophisticated, chi-chi, refined cooking, but the ingredients...

On a recent visit to Spain, I spent a day touring the historic town of Segovia which is renowned for its extraordinary Roman aqueduct and the famous Castle of Alcazar....

As an almost obsessive addict of the Joselito’s Pata Negro (Iberico Bellota), I made a special trip out to his storage facility about ten miles outside the historic city of...

An extraordinary lunch and wine tasting was sponsored by the Ray Signorello, Jr. to benefit Daniel Boulud’s favorite New York charity, Meals on Wheels. All the Rhône wines as well...

This excellent BYO Italian trattoria does a marvelous job with its deep-fried calamari and thin crust pizzas made in their wood-burning oven. I decided to go with fish even though...

Anyone who misses the oysters that come from the aquatic farms and oyster beds in the bay near the seaside village of Arcachon knows just how wonderful these bivalves can...

The go-to bistro in Bordeaux, La Tupina has long been a wonderfully comforting place to eat. You can’t beat the entrance where you are greeted by a fireplace with rotisserie...

...and the darkness becomes consciousness as daylight and heat stream through the dust-stained window and the hubbub below becomes louder and louder and rifling through my battle scarred suitcase I...