Bargain Hunting
Santé The Magazine for Restaurant Professionals April/May 2001 Page 30 FROM THE CELLAR Bargain Hunting I feel a little like the restaurant reviewer starting a column with “there’s this great little hole-in-the-wall that I probably…
Throwing the Perfect Oscar Night Party
Q San Francisco March 2001 Pages 56-57 Throwing the Perfect Oscar Night Party I have never been nominated for an Academy Award. I’m informed by friends in the know that this relates to my not…
Millennium Dinner
Although the whole Y2K thing was oriented around the change in the year from 1999 to 2000, because of some potential computer glitches (that didn’t happen, but the hype surrounding it all was impressive), the…
Hot & Spicy
Q San Francisco January 2001 Pages 56-57 Hot & Spicy In the town that I grew up in there were two Chinese restaurants. Both served what I’ve since come to regard as watered down Cantonese-American…
The Perfect Cocktail Party
Q San Francisco November 2000 Pages 60-61 The Perfect Cocktail Party Ever since seeing Mame for the first time, I’ve wanted to through lavish, unconventional cocktail parties. What could be more fun than having your…
A Roll of the Deiss
Another one of our wine themed dinners – here, with all but the sparkling to launch the evening, from Marcel Deiss, one of my favorite Alsace producers. A Roll of the Deiss Sunday, 8 October,…
Shades of Yellow
Another color themed dinner I did a lot of those, and long before the modernist trend we’re seeing in 2015 for “monochrome” dinners. Prescient, that’s what I was, prescient. Second Sunday Supper Circle September 10,…
Manhattan’s Hottest New Restaurants
Q San Francisco September 2000 Pages 54, 55, 62 Manhattan’s Hottest New Restaurants In New York restaurants pop up like a jack-in-the-box and close nearly as fast. Some restaurateurs take advantage of the world of…