Delta has just announced “The Cabin Pressure Cook Off: The Search for the Next Delta Chef”. That’s interesting to people like me who climb into at least a couple of Delta jets every week. One benefit of frequently flying between New England and my office in Atlanta is the “first class upgrade”. Along with wider seats, more leg […]
Noma: New Normal In Perfect Dining
It is important to walk to Noma over city bridges and along waterfront streets to embrace Copenhagen’s bone chilling winter. February Noma meals are miraculously conceived outdoors; natural bounties harvested, pickled, smoked, or dried in step with a harsh Scandinavian winter calendar. Only then are they skillfully nurtured into a series of intellectually compelling courses […]
Top Five Hidden Wine & Other Treasures
I am an inflight magazine junkie, scouring the likes of Andrew Zimmern, Mark Bittman, Jason Oliver Nixon and other columnists in pursuit of the next undiscovered gem of a hidden local restaurant, hotel, wine shop, or hedonistic delight. I travel incessantly, coveting new months and issues, flipping to “tips” and “tops” pages with similar impatience […]
Bottles Restaurant: Wine Lover Oasis in Puerto Rico
Bottles 5 Tabonuco Street Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00968 (787) 775-1210 or (787) 775-0604 Respectable wine service on the Northern shores of Puerto Rico has been as rare as white Christmases on this Isla del Encanto. I have exhausted all possibilities over 25 years of habitual Isla Verde retreats. The hunt turns up poorly stored, warm, overpriced […]
Menton: Reaching For the Stars (Michelin?) from Boston’s Fort Point
Menton’s team would be discovering and learning in only their third week of service, and we would be celebrating a full and exact 25 years of marriage; an intriguing juxtaposition of experience. Still, I decided to ring up Eli Feldman, Director of Operations at Barbara Lynch Gruppo, to squeeze into their newest project for our […]