recent vintage-other than markup. The amuse bouche consisted of single bites of each of four selections on a tray. I don’t remember any of them other than a kind of quiche that was truly outstanding. The other three were...

that I didn’t think much of one of the wines – in response he poured us, for free, a glass of an earlier vintage of the same wine that was spectacular.

. The bathroom itself was covered in nice blue and white tiles. The toilet, behind a separate mini-room, had an interesting vintage lamp sconce over it. Real cloth towels, too. And one more thing, like all the nice restaurants I...

will get a good drink: 1) lovely lovely Bombay Saphire martini, very cold, very dry, with an olive, that is never eaten (best at home in a vintage tail glass or at a few high end bars that have small glasses) 2) Dry manhattan made...

Jeff, That’s a great story! Where DID you dig that up!? I am assuming that Edna Ferber was describing State Street in the 1920s. Where, or how would they have gotten mameys or green almonds! The ending is hilarious and...

here, even at places I love. I’m trying to think what my worst meal of 2007 was. I think it probably had to be my second dinner at Vintage Restaurant in West Roxbury: spectacular ineptitude from both front and back of house...

". An assortment of cutting implements – hunting knives, sabers, ice picks – were provided for the guests to take a wack at it. We didn’t have Wisconsin beer but were asked to bring a wine of the 1996 vintage to...

. Much in the vein of Harvey Nichols, the wine shop had a small but well thought out selection that included very few bargains. They had several vintages of the Paul Jaboulet Aine La Chapelle for a few dollars cheaper than in the...

Yeah, I guess my choices date me. I forgot to list Jean Anderson’s Processor Cooking cookbook (vintage 70s). I got it when I received my first and only food processor—the original Cuisinart. Her cookbook introduced me to...

foods... and vintage frocks along the other side. orrery restaurant (conran group, just lost a star) is here, and they run a nice cafe on the ground floor. cozy with good sandwiches. For a casual coffee and communal tables hop...

refrigerator cookies (I use heart-shaped molds collected from vintage bridge sets), and will have to have something chocolate. Probably Saveur gingerbread with my cookie molds ... What’s on your list?

, here’s a link to a vintage thread, “ does the taste of umami exist in humans?” July 2000 - http://www.chowhound.com/topics/286428#1535807

of single malt scotch , a $60 Kobe steak ,and a few bottles of vintage Bordeaux were just a few of the many acts of greed by Wall Street’s finest. Don’t ask me and my fellow taxpayers to pick up that tab !

Rodenbach Grand Cru Cantillon Fou Foune Iris Brooklyn Vintage Chocolate Stout Cantillon Gueze Allagash Curieux Dogfish Head Chateau Jihau

, champagne, foie gras, exceptional vintages of bordeaux and a few california cult cabernets were consumed. as well as some d’yquem. servers, runners, bussers, the sommelier and the assistant sommelier all ran their butts...