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Union Square Café

One of my favorite New York City restaurants for consistency as well as superlative food is the Union Square Café, which continues to be among the most popular restaurants listed in the Zagut Guide. Danny Meyer is unquestionably one of the great restauranteurs of our time, and what he has done in Manhattan is remarkable. One of his oldest venues, the Union Square Café turns out brilliant cooking at very fair prices. With the delicious light, deep-fried calamari, extraordinary ravioli stuffed with summer vegetables, and the earthy, rustic ragout of rabbit, I chose the crisp, delicate 2007 Bruno Giacosa Arneis. This tank-fermented and aged white was a perfect match. It was a wonderful lunch which brought back many great memories of all the superb meals I have had here over the years.

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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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