Wine
Bottle Shock: The Sideways of 2008
Recently I got a chance to see Bottle Shock and I have to say I thought it was great. It’s really charming and interesting in a very different way from Sideways , although because of all the beautiful Napa Valley photography, it still reminded me of it. It also has great characters and...
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EIGHTY8 – Copenhagen
Sometimes you have the feeling that there are few and far between in the news the Copenhagen restaurant-life. It strikes us now a blow to the eighty8, a brasserie with a lifetime of just 88 days in 2008. Brothers Berntsen, restaurant manager Alexander – one of Denmark’s best sommeliers, and his brother Jonathan chef...
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Asia gets new food guide – The Miele Guide
The Miele Guide is a new guide made for Asia’s finest restaurants. I’m really looking forward for this project, and hope for the people behind it that will become a success. “The Miele Guide will be Asia’s first truly independent regional restaurant guide when launched in October 2008, and also its most authoritative—we do not...
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Adour Alain Ducasse – New York
Internationally acclaimed chef, Alain Ducasse, is poised to open Adour Alain Ducasse et The St. Regis New York, a new signature restaurant at the St. Regis’s legendary flagship property. Adour will also feature an exclusive 4-seat interactive wine bar that will delight both new and experienced gourmands and oenophiles alike.”My ambition for The St....
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Solex – New York
Solex is the name of this new French wine bar on First Ave. The look here is streamlined, with a semi-vaulted ceiling and counter-hight taables.The people behind this sleek place are Frederick Twomey who has united himself with, Christophe Chatron-Michaud and pastry chef Eric Hubert, who veers here into savory territory. His small-plate menu features cromesquis de...
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Top 100 wines 2007
The Wine Spectator just announced there top 100 wines 2007. Here we have taken out 7 of the top 100 : 1. Clos des Papes (Châteauneuf-du-Pape 2005) 2. Ridge (Chardonnay Santa Cruz Mountains Santa Cruz Mountain Estate 2005) 3. Le Vieux Donjon (Châteauneuf-du-Pape 2005) 4. Antinori (Toscana Tignanello 2004) 5. Two Hands (Shiraz Barossa Valley...
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L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon – London
Was very lucky to reserve a table 2 days before i arrived to London last weekend, i hadn’t really herd anything about L’atelier since it just opened the 2 weeks ago. Well only thing i herd was that it was very expensive. Saturday at 7 o’clock i arrived to the reception was well seated...
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