...and there’s the search function. I think you’ll like Manresa. Might be the best haute restaurant on the West Coast right now.

. Haute cuisine? No. But not uniformly ‘horrific’ either. GLB wouldn’t be my first choice if I weren’t drinking beer. That said, the food is ample, inexpensive, and a perfectly acceptable accompaniment to...

naive. I think we all know and have known that Rachael Ray sucks in the culinary sanctum. It’s humurous when the Bourdain camp gets all frothy around the mouth in rabid support of their unsung hero smashing to bits the...

cheesecake factory & carraba’s. it’s not haute cuisine, but who wants that all the time. cheesecake factory has good salads and carraba’s has great bread & dipping oil & fried calamari.

/32 Highfield, Sauvignon Blanc, Marlborough New Zealand, 2006 11/40 Chateau D’orschwihr, Riesling Bollenberg, France, 2005 11/42 Huber, Gruner Veltliner, Austria, 2006 9/35 Norton Ridge, Chardonnay, Napa Valley CA, 2005 9/37 Red...

Florida has used forever and others are schlock, but there are some real treasures in there that can’t be improved upon. I often serve some of those to my Haute Food Snob friends who devour them. I make no attempt to hide...

to the “Great Man Theory” — that the best restaurant cities have the best high-end restaurants, while others are arguing for quantity and range of restaurants. I’m definitely in the latter camp, myself. I...