Category Archives: Fine Dining

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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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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Boragó – Tasting Chile’s Ancient Roots With A New Vision

Posted on April 24, 2013 by docsconz in Chile, Cocktails & Libations, Culinary Personalities, Fine Dining, Food and Drink, Pastry, Regional, Slow Food, Starchefs, Top Restaurant Meals, Top Tastes, Travel, Wine

Chile’s neighboring country of Peru has long been known for the seemingly infinite variety of native ingredients, many of which have been adopted and adapted by other cultures as part of the Columbian Exchange, in which products from the Americas [...]

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Alex Atala: Discovering New Brazilian Ingredients via Phaidon Press

Posted on April 18, 2013 by docsconz in Art, Books, Brazil, Culinary Personalities, Fine Dining, Food and Drink, Food Lit, Restaurants, Slow Food, Travel, Video

Check out this video promoting the new book Alex Atala: Discovering New Brazilian Ingredients via Phaidon Press. It’s  lovely and shows why I’m dying to dine at D.O.M., Atala’s renowned restaurant in Sao Paolo, Brazil.
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Savoring the Exotic in Chile – Coastal Foraging With Boragó’s Rodolfo Guzman and Tommy de Olarte

Posted on April 17, 2013 by docsconz in Chile, Culinary Personalities, Fine Dining, Flowers, Food and Drink, Slow Food, Travel, Video

Oxalis, strawberries, parsley, radishes and even samphire are hardly exotic elements of the pantry, unless they come from the Chilean coast. Here they relate to their cousins with similar names via taste, but they are decidedly different in terms of [...]

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Chile – A Land of the Exotic and the Familiar – An Overview

Posted on April 15, 2013 by docsconz in Chile, Culinary Personalities, Fine Dining, Food and Drink, Regional, Restaurants, Slow Food, Traditional Ethnic, Travel, Wine

Chile, the country, first came to my attention a couple of years ago when I saw Rodolfo Guzman of the Santiago restaurant Boragó speak at the StarChefs ICC. His presentation which featured ingredients indigenous to the country and totally unknown [...]

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A Foodie Family’s Frolic in Florida – Part 2 – Miami

Posted on April 11, 2013 by docsconz in Bistronomic, Culinary Personalities, Fine Dining, Florida, Food and Drink, Hotels, Regional, Slow Food, Southern Food & Cooking, Top Tastes, Traditional Ethnic, Travel

It was about a three and a half hour drive from Orlando to our next destination – Miami Beach. More specifically, we were heading to the luxurious St. Regis Bal Harbour Resort. This segment of the trip would be all [...]

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A Foodie Family’s Frolic in Florida – Part 1 – Orlando

Posted on April 9, 2013 by docsconz in Bistronomic, Culinary Personalities, Fine Dining, Florida, Food and Drink, Holidays, Hotels, Regional, Slow Food, Southern Food & Cooking, Traditional Ethnic, Travel

With our youngest son almost in high school and never having visited any of the major theme parks, time was running out for us to fulfill what has become an American rite of passage that our two eldest boys had [...]

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Dining at In de Wulf

Posted on March 26, 2013 by Lawrence Sconzo in BeNeLux, Cheese, Cocktails & Libations, Culinary Personalities, Fine Dining, Food and Drink, Hotels, LJ Sconzo, Pastry, Regional, Restaurants, Slow Food, Top Restaurant Meals, Travel

Located in the middle of the hilly Belgian countryside, a winter excursion to Chef Kobe Desramaults’ In de Wulf is like finding an oasis in a frozen desert. It’s only accessible by icy, elevated one-lane roads, which leads to trouble [...]

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