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Dinner with Friends at Petit Louis

Another delightful meal at the best bistro in Baltimore (Charm City's only bistro). A meal consisting of their perfect Eggplant Napoleon with goat cheese, olives, tapenade, and very intense and...

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Mark's Duck House, Arlington, VA - Dim Sum with Burgundy Producers

Among the white wines there were no real surprises. It was another great showing for Kistler's 1998 Chardonnay Cuvée Cathleen, a powerful, yet concentrated, structured, super-intense offering with abundant quantities of...

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Another Dumpling Extravaganza at Mark's Duck House

It seems like, when I am in the United States, I need to go here at least once every three or four weeks. As for food, it is always the...

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Dinner with Les Oenarchs, at Charleston, Baltimore

An exceptional meal from chef Cindy Wolf at Charleston highlighted this blind tasting of Barolos. It was very easy to pick out the theme, of course, but the surprise was...

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L'Ami Louis — Paris, France

Of course, like many Americans, I was stuck in France for several extra days, waiting for American air space to reopen and then for the backlog to get unclogged so...

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Dinner at Veritas - '82 Bordeaux Magnum Blowout

Chef Scott Bryan's flavorful, soulful, very pure cooking is obviously designed to make wines show well, and certainly he proved that time and time again at this brilliant tasting of...

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Citronelle, Washington, DC

One of the two or three most remarkable meals of the year was delivered by the magician himself, the boisterous Michel Richard. Michel Richard is the most artistic French chef...

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Le Bernadin, New York City

This was a small get-together with a dear friend to do a blind tasting of just four wines and see if the restaurant's top chef could match both the whites...

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Mark's Duck House, Arlington, VA Another Dim Sum Fix

Except for a disappointing white Burgundy (again!), everything that we tasted was pretty much up to snuff or even better. Pétrus, which is often somewhat underwhelming after bottling, has turned in...

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