There’s no better hot-weather meal than cold Japanese noodles, and Saburi works a delicious variation on the theme.

Noe Valley gets a big “eh” from hounds in comparison to more chowish nabes like the Mission, the Inner Sunset, or Clement Street.

For down-home Mexican chow in OC, Super Antojitos is right on target. Really good meats–pastor, carnitas, carne asada, and barbacoa–plus posole and menudo on weekends. Beans are creamy and lardy, and dishes like...

This morning we took a great tour of Four Roses Distillery (1224 Bonds Mill Road, Lawrenceburg, Kentucky; 502-839-3436), which makes some of my favorite bourbons.

New York hounddom’s toughest grader of Korean chow lists some current favorites, most of them clustered on the bustling Broad Avenue strip in Palisades Park.

My Hawaiian vacation fantasy.

Fresh Japanese tips, uptown and midtown.

Gundlachs and Bundschus came together in the 19th century to make great wines.

Two very old bottles turn out surprisingly good; the new wine’s not so bad either.

I’m at T-minus 24 hours to winetasting. Oh, I didn’t tell you: Tomorrow I’ll be drinking glass after glass of priceless Bordeaux atop a mountain in New Hampshire.

Notable quotes from this week.

Family Diner (7911 North Carolina Highway 68 North, Stokesdale, North Carolina; 336-643-8853) is killer, a serious revelation. It left me shaken and giddy.

Glorious croissant energy.

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It’s not what we had with our Christmas dinner, to Alice Waters’s chagrin.