A Farewell to Benny’s, Chicago, February 2020
Benny's Chop House has often appeared on "Best Steakhouse" lists in a city full of great steakhouses. Somehow, I never made it there until it was too late. It was…
Bellemore, Chicago, November, 2018
Valeria and I made our first visit to Bellemore, a (relatively) new restaurant in the Boka Restaurant Group, back in August. We were impressed by the ambience, food, wine, and…
Still Flying High: Oriole, Chicago, September 2018
Oriole is the best restaurant in Chicago. There, I said it. I don't normally proclaim anything "the best" simply because it almost always involves both objective criteria and subjective criteria. Food that…
Norman’s, Orlando, Florida, June, 2018
Every year a few million folks go to Orlando to visit Disneyworld, Universal Studios, and Sea World. I go every year or two for Photoshop World and the food, not…
Booth One, Chicago, April 2018
Way back on October 1, 1938, a restaurant called The Pump Room opened in a hotel that was then called The Ambassador East. Over the next 40 years or so,…
Steadfast, Chicago, December, 2017
It was just over a year ago that we paid our first visit to Steadfast, the main restaurant in Chicago's Klimpton Gray hotel. We enjoyed it, as I wrote here.…
A Barge Cruise on the Burgundy Canal, Day 5, Part 2, Ravières to Montbard
As I hope you have already seen in A Barge Cruise on the Burgundy Canal, Day 5, Part 1, A Balloon Ride Over Burgundy, we arose early on our 5th day…
Intro, Chicago, November 2016
How do the years roll by so quickly? It has been almost 2 years since I last wrote about Intro, shortly after it filled the space formerly occupied by L2O.…
A Holiday Season Dinner at Allium
Several years ago there was a trend for high-end hotels (Ritz, Four Seasons, and the like) to convert their high-end restaurants to something more casual. Some of the conversions were…
A Taittinger Champagne Dinner at Sepia
I love Champagne. Real Champagne. Capital "C" Champagne from the region of the same name in France. To my taste, almost all of the great wines that France has given…
