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Petit Louis Bistro

A lookalike, authentic French bistro, Petit Louis in Baltimore's Roland Park is the creation of restauranteurs par excellence Cindy Wolf and Tony Foreman. You feel like you’ve walked into a...

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Magdalena Restaurant at The Ivy Hotel

This was a magical night. The wines were all chosen from my cellar for this charity event to raise funds for Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C....

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Asian Court

Asian Court may well have the most authentic Chinese cuisine in the Baltimore metropolitan area. The service can be a bit hazardous, as few people at the restaurant speak much...

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Vito’s Ristorante Italiano in Maryland (With My Informal Wine Group)

This was a wonderful get-together with my informal wine group at Vito’s Ristorante Italiano in Cockeysville, Maryland....

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Wit & Wisdom

I have been supporting the T. J. Martell Foundation, which is the music industry’s effort to provide generous aid for research involving leukemia, cancer and AIDS, since its inception. This...

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Vito’s Ristorante Italiano in Maryland

This was a terrific meal with friends at our local Italian bistro. I asked Chef Luca to make his homemade ravioli, which are clearly Michelin three-star in quality....

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Magdalena Restaurant – The Ivy Hotel (July 2016)

I have eaten at least a half-dozen meals at this small, boutique restaurant inside the exquisite and relatively modest Ivy Hotel in midtown Baltimore. Chef Mark Levy, in less than...

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Dinner with Friends - Chez G-Man

Dinner with Friends promoted Spanish flavors, so I brought some older Spanish wines from my cellar. We started with a relatively dull, austere and uninspiring 1998 Krug Vintage Champagne. Luckily, the 2012...

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Magdalena Restaurant - The Ivy Hotel

By and large, the California Chardonnays performed overall better than the white Burgundies, although I was super-impressed with Louis Latour's 2009 Corton-Charlemagne Grand Cru White Burgundy, with loads of quince, white...

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