July 20 This blog has a new home, read my latest post h ere .

Dear blog reader, sorry I've been out of touch. I've been doing a lot of reporting on  Nation's Restaurant New...

May 8 Well, I did slightly better in predicting the winners of the Beard Awards  this year than last year. I got five out of 20 right ins...

March 19 Once again a coterie of food writers, chefs and restaurateurs have nominated a talented array of professionals to win the Jame...

The New York Times’ new restaurant critic, Pete Wells, tears Romera New York a new one  in his review of the restaurant that, by most accou...

November 15, I had a fun lunch today at the David Bouley Test Kitchen, which is a place that Bouley set up in Tribeca as a sort of fo...

“Oh, uh, hey, you're on fire there,” I said. Nonchalance probably isn’t the best approach to take when you see flames start to spread...