This month there are a bunch of events coming up in Canada and the United States. Most notably is the much anticipated RAW, this year in New... read more →
ŽIVÉ VÍNA There are wine bars every other step on the cobbles of the most picturesque parts of Gothic Bratislava but it’s still a town more known... read more →
Just two years ago, in Vermont wine drinking was tough. Beyond the occasional interloper that made it through (I recall a Kermit Lynch Côtes du Rhone), one... read more →
I AM COFFEE “I’m too Italian for New York, Alice,” the impossibly broad-shouldered Nicola Finotto complained to me. With beagle-like sad eyes behind his retro, oversized... read more →
I first wrote about the coming (back) of hard cider in 2003—about ten years too early. Sales of U.S. hard cider are only now showing evidence of life,... read more →
FUNG TU Billed as a Chinese-American overhaul, I found Fung Tu more like Thomas-Keller-cooks-at-the-foot-of-the-Chinese Grandmother. That would be chef Jonathan Wu’s grandmother and for her, I am grateful.... read more →
The Queens Kickshaw owners are cider fanatics and it took their cider list (I bet it’s the best in the States) to get me to Queens. In... read more →
Les Marchands opened in Santa Barbara and the fledgling group of minimalist winemakers in the area rejoiced. Breezy, basic, delicious food, local cheese and the detail is... read more →
WASSAIL Was New York City ready for a hard cider-centric bar and restaurant? Queens Kickshaw owners Jennifer Lim and Ben Sandler and partner Sabine Hrechdakian (a TFL subscriber) teamed... read more →
JUNE A cold February wind blew me into a warm Brooklyn wine bar. June is Tom Kearney’s (The Farm on Adderley) new child. And it's a pretty... read more →