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,…
Bar Boulud, New York, November 2017
I spent a few days just before Thanksgiving on a family visit to New York City. Not everyone in my family is a foodie, so 3-hour meals at 3-Michelin Star…
Oriole Flies High in the Culinary Sky
There's a new restaurant in town that will almost certainly join the ranks of the Michelin-starred best. It's named in homage to Baltimore and is quite a challenge to find even…
A Barge Cruise on the Burgundy Canal, Day 2, Part 2, Tanlay to Lézinnes
If you wonder why Valeria and I fell in love with barge cruising, consider this: it took three fairly lengthy blog posts to cover the first 24 hours of the…
