half a dozen kumamoto, kusshi, and St. Simon oysters Ruggeri Prosecco grilled sardines Txakoli Txomin Extaniz another half a dozen St. Simon oysters Marques de Irun, Rueda another half a dozen St. Simon oysters gulab jamun dahia batata...

How can one go wrong with $1 oysters?!!! We had a great pre-theatre (Aurora GAP) dinner on Monday. We shared a dozen bivalves, the fish and chips, the risotto, a great white Rueda, and a few pints of Boont amber. Everything was...

While I haven’t tried the Codax, keep in mind that 2003 was a dreadfully hot year. Many wines that count on a nice backbone of acidity suffered from the searing heat. Why not skip both wines and look towards a nice '04 from...

In my experience, sherry is considered more of a cooler weather drink. During the summer many people here (Madrid) drink beer, albariños, ruedas or “tinto de verano” (red wine cut with La Casera). These go well with...

(1) Try the taco truck Super Tacos Sobre Ruedas which parks on 96 St. and Broadway (SW corner) from something like 7 P.M. until all hours of the night. You won’t be disappointed. (2) If you’re in the Lower East Side,...

. A merchant who stocks good Spanish wines, Rueda in particular. This is a variety of white wine more suited to its color than those coming from Rioja, or so I’ve read. While on vacation recently I had a 1998 Basa (?) that...

, tax and tip. Since it’s BYOB (how long can they survive without the profits from alcohol sales?), I could bring along a very nice Shaya old vines verdejo from Rueda and still stay under $50 for the evening. I hope other...

Muscadet, rose, sancerre, albarino, beaujolais, loire reds, dolcetto, barbera, rueda, so many good ones.

, and the alfajores were soft and stale with crystallized filling. OUR WINES - 03 Buil & Gine “Nosis” Verdejo Rueda ?? Viña Godeval Blanco 01 Los Altos Mendoza Malbec 01 Neo Ribera del Duero 94 Pesquera “Reserva...

the papaya salad. I found the shaking beef a bit over salted, but it did grow on me after a while. The wine I brought was the 2002 Mantel Blanco, which is a Verdejo based wine from the Rueda region in Spain. It’s available...

. The service was fine, the server herself sweet but distant. The room was energetic, with several large parties. Sacks: Also downtown, right around the corner from Orso. I ordered a bottle of the 2007 Martin Sanchez Rueda...

a good Sauvignon Blanc, you would do well to explore Rueda. There is a good cheap SB at Costco — St. Clair? St. Clare? — and it seems like it was about $10 a bottle. Very New Zealand. I liked that too. Just off the top...

, even with the dessert). I’m not familiar with the wines of the Niagara area (except for some wonderful dessert wines), so the following recommendations are from elsewhere. For whites, consider a Macon from France or a...

not specific recommendations, but a general principle I use when choosing unknown wines: I think the likelihood of a <$10 wine being pretty good increases if you choose Argentina (malbec and torrontés) or Spain (jumilla,...

to get to the Brazilian side to have a panoramic view of the falls. Puerto Iguazu is not a foodie kind of place. Having said that, we had a couple of delightful meals at La Rueda, Av. Cordoba 28, (3370) Puerto Iguazu, fono:...