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The Sharing of Pleasures
Last night my wife Leslie and I, along with two friends, attended one in a series of ‘Vintage Dinners’ organized by the Zagat guides — this one held at New York’s legendary French restaurant, Daniel....
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Living Well Indeed!
This week we attended another of the Zagat Vintage Dinners, this time at Del Posto. As before, menu and wine pairings are pasted below for fellow enthusiasts. The pictures you’ll see dotted through the...
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Lionizing A World Class Experience!
RAFFLES WINE FOOD AND ARTS EXPERIENCE About 10 years ago, while consulting for The Ritz-Carlton Millennia Singapore as it was being launched as the new flagship for that company, we were induced to...
View ArticleIn Itself Of Itself
When my co-author Alan Weiss and I dined together at Per Se we were tickled by Thomas Keller’s choice of names for his restaurant. One of the definitions of the term ‘Per Se’ I love most, is ‘in itself...
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Three Generations of Exquisite Taste
Each of the Zagat Vintage Dinners have allowed superb, world class chefs to locate a theme, and then execute it…with all their imagination and passion. We dined last night at the penultimate Vintage...
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A Festival of Taste
As part of our 17th wedding anniversary celebrations, my wife and I enjoyed a lovely couple of nights in Tarrytown (for some of the other educational aspects of the week-end check out the podcast “The...
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Essentially a tale of a dinner, this is more about familiarity breeding not contempt, but warmth and great pleasure. We began the day at the Four Seasons Hotel for a bite of breakfast and a meeting....
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Noble Repast
We’ve been working with Raffles Hotels and Resorts at their flagship Singapore property and their eye-popping Dubai newcomer (relative to the 120 years plus the Old Gal in Singapore has clocked up), on...
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What a Return!
Eighteen years ago I stopped last at the Inn at Little Washington. It was already a famous, special place. Please see the podcast below, The “Inn” Place, as to the many aspects that make the town and...
View ArticleA Tale of Two Cigars
The other night a group of friends assembled at The Grand Havana Club, a private membership club, that provides a bespoke atmosphere for the increasingly rarefied pleasure of enjoying good cigars....
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Starry Eyed in Collias
Once a year we do a Gastro-ramble through the Languedoc Roussillon region of France. The ramble part consists of walking between and from some very picturesque cities and villages in what was once...
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Hospitality, thy name is John, and Anthony…and Helene
The Four Seasons Hotel in London (formerly The Inn on the Park) was my London home since the late 70’s (first courtesy of my Dad’s fondness for it, and then my own). Last year it closed for renovation...
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A Tour of Latour!
Superlatives tend to be gushed too readily. “The best ever,” “amazing”, “world class”, etc. But what can you say about the annual event at Hotel Beau Rivage in Geneve, where each year, a highly...
View ArticleValentine’s…Eve?
Well we enjoy Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve, so this year, as Valentine’s Day was falling on Sunday, we opted to have our amorous outing on the “eve”. Many pooh pooh this holiday calling it...
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The Intimacy of a Special Collection!
I’ve long been a fan of the restaurant Del Posto. It is stunningly elegant, formal and yet cozy, and the cuisine shines. It is haute Italian, of multi-Michelin star quality (and when they lose a...
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