Category Archives: Restaurants

Fermented Elements – Dinner With Matthias Merges and Kevin Farley (The Cultured Pickle)

Posted on May 24, 2013 by docsconz in California, Chicago, Cocktails & Libations, Cooking, Culinary Blogs, Culinary Personalities, Culinary Shopping, Fermentation, Fine Dining, Food and Drink, Food Events, New Jersey, Pastry, Restaurants, Slow Food, Travel, Wine

Fermentation has been around for as long as humans have been eating food and drinking beverages other than water. Many cultures have used it to create their most iconic foods. It is only recently, however, that the techniques of fermentation have gained [...]

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L’Air du Temps- Much More than a Beautiful Scent

Posted on May 22, 2013 by docsconz in BeNeLux, Culinary Personalities, Family, Fine Dining, Food and Drink, Pastry, Restaurants, Slow Food, Top Restaurant Meals, Travel, Wine

 
I first became enthralled by Chef Sang-hoon Degeimbre’s cooking at the 2011 StarChefs International Chefs Congress in New York City. His cooking was beautiful, alluring and had soul. I longed to actually get to taste it. His restaurant, L’Air du [...]

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Mesamerica 2012 -An Exploration of Mexican Cooking

Posted on May 20, 2013 by docsconz in Culinary Personalities, Food and Drink, Mesamerica, Mexico, Restaurants, Retro Photos, Slow Food, Traditional Ethnic, Travel

Most people in the United States have no clue about how truly wonderful Mexican cooking and food are. Sure, there is plenty of love for tacos, burritos and guacamole and a few other Mexican or Tex-Mex dishes, but Mexican food [...]

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Sunday Photo – A Pig Roasts in Brooklyn

Posted on May 19, 2013 by docsconz in Bistronomic, Culinary Personalities, Events, Food and Drink, Food Events, New York City, Photo Posts, Slow Food, Traditional Ethnic

A new season, the second, has started for the weekly pig roasts run by Jose Ramirez-Ruiz of Chez Jose and John Ratliff of Ends Meat in the backyard of the Crown Victoria Bar in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Each week they cook with [...]

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A Mother’s Celebration at Cafe Boulud

Posted on May 14, 2013 by docsconz in Culinary Personalities, Fine Dining, Food and Drink, Holidays, New York City, Pastry, Restaurants, Slow Food, Top Restaurant Meals, Wine

It wasn’t yet Mothers Day or my wife’s birthday. Those would both be the following day. It was, however, the day to celebrate both as well as two bon voyages. We drove down to New York City to take our [...]

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Aqui Está Coco Means Here is Great Seafood

Posted on May 9, 2013 by docsconz in Chile, Cocktails & Libations, Culinary Personalities, Food and Drink, Pastry, Regional, Restaurants, Slow Food, Top Restaurant Meals, Traditional Ethnic, Travel, Wine

By the time we left Rancho Doña Maria to drive back to our hotel in Santiago I really didn’t want to think about more food, let alone eat it. We had already had a wonderful seafood breakfast at the Mercado [...]

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Dining at La Grenouillére

Posted on May 7, 2013 by Lawrence Sconzo in Culinary Personalities, Fine Dining, Food and Drink, France, Hotels, LJ Sconzo, Pastry, Restaurants, Slow Food, Starchefs, Top Restaurant Meals, Traditional Ethnic, Travel

After getting a taste of Chef Alex Gauthier’s cooking at last year’s StarChefs ICC (read about it here), I was looking forward to our reservation at his nouveau-French restaurant more than any other on our pilgrimage. Happily, it did not [...]

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Breaking News: Frantzen/Lindeberg Now Just Frantzen

Posted on May 1, 2013 by docsconz in Culinary Blogs, Culinary Personalities, Current Affairs, Fine Dining, Food and Drink, Restaurants, Scandinavia, Starchefs

Just two days after being proclaimed the twelfth best restaurant in the world on the controversial San Pellegrino’s World’s 50 Best Restaurants list as Frantzen/Lindeberg, Bjorn Frantzen and Daniel Lindeberg have announced they are splitting up with Frantzen retaining control [...]

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Empanadas and Pork- A Day of Glorious Eating Continues at Rancho Doña Maria

Posted on May 1, 2013 by docsconz in Chile, Food and Drink, Pastry, Regional, Slow Food, Top Restaurant Meals, Top Tastes, Traditional Ethnic, Travel, Wine

The old saying is “You can’t judge a book by its cover.” That can also be applied to restaurants – at least some times. Left entirely to my own devices, I have to admit its highly unlikely that I would [...]

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King Crab and Roasted Lamb – El Meson de la Patagonia

Posted on April 29, 2013 by docsconz in Chile, Culinary Blogs, Food and Drink, Pastry, Regional, Restaurants, Slow Food, Traditional Ethnic, Travel

The day started with a tour and a rousing breakfast at two of Santiago’s main food markets, but that was only the beginning of an epic day of eating some of the best food to be had in Chile (or [...]

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