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Mercato (Jean-Georges)

This is a fashionable, chic, popular Italian restaurant with the creative cuisine of Jean-Georges, who has his flagship Shanghai restaurant in the same building. The overall emphasis here is on fresh, lively, market flavors with an Italian orientation. Our entire meal was sensational as was the magnificent view of the modern skyline of Pudong across the river. Everything was well-prepared; the pizzas were innovative and brilliantly executed, and the flavors were intense. I highly recommend this restaurant, but reservations are essential given its fashionable popularity.

As for the wines, the ever-reliable Billecart Rosé Champagne got us off to an excellent start. While young, the sumptuous fruit and full-bodied texture of the 2009 Clape Cornas Renaissance (from this iconic estate's younger vines) was gorgeously rich and dense - a great wine from a great year and producer.

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Petit Louis Bistro

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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 bistro on the Left Bank of Paris when you enter Petit Louis. The food is classic bistro, and they do it well. All of the courses we had were flavorful, sometimes a trifle rustic, but delicious in their intensity. This was good comfort food prepared extremely well. The wines started with one of the major surprises for me over the last year, the 2006 sparking wine from Tony Soter in Oregon. I had this several times while I was out visiting Oregon, and I had always been impressed, but this is a 10-year-old sparking Rosé that is just sensational, and I’m talking world class—it’s that good. Something this good from France would cost at least two to three times as much, so kudos to Tony Soter. The 1995 Billaud-Simon Chablis Mont de Milieu was oxidized and undrinkable. The 1996 Zind-Humbrecht Pinot Gris Clos St. Urbain Rangen de Thann was sweet, and although it went well with the foie gras, it was just a little too unctuous and sweet a wine...

La Toque - Cheval Blanc Dinner

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This was a spectacular night of fabulous food at La Toque in Napa, California. Every course was right on target, and we had the joy of hosting Château Cheval Blanc’s administrator Pierre Lurton for this night with Wine Advocate subscribers.
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