Falling in Love With Chinese Cuisine Chef and James Beard award-winning food writer Fuchsia Dunlop is an expert when it comes to Chinese food and culinary culture. The native Brit was the first foreign student, and one of only a few women, to graduate from the acclaimed Sichuan Institute of Higher Cuisine. Since then, she’s mastered… Read More →
Not Your Typical Vietnamese Restaurant Chef Jordan Kahn opened Red Medicine in 2010, inspired by many post-shift late night meals at Vietnamese restaurants around Los Angeles. Although he uses fragrant, traditional ingredients in his wildly creative menu, this isn’t your traditional Vietnamese joint. Kahn’s reinterpretation of Southeast Asian cuisine is simply stunning, almost too pretty… Read More →
Not Your Typical Vietnamese Restaurant Chef Jordan Kahn opened Red Medicine in 2010, inspired by many post-shift late night meals at Vietnamese restaurants around Los Angeles. Although he uses fragrant, traditional ingredients in his wildly creative menu, this isn’t your traditional Vietnamese joint. Kahn’s reinterpretation of Southeast Asian cuisine is simply stunning, almost too pretty… Read More →
Really Cool Waterslides Grant Pauly is living most home brewers’ dream. Just a year ago, he opened 3 Sheeps Brewing Co., a microbrewery in Sheboygan that’s quickly gaining recognition for quality brews with flavor profiles Grant labels “one off of normal.” He lives by a philosophy that it’s always better to forgo fame, fortune and stability in… Read More →
Really Cool Waterslides Grant Pauly is living most home brewers’ dream. Just a year ago, he opened 3 Sheeps Brewing Co., a microbrewery in Sheboygan that’s quickly gaining recognition for quality brews with flavor profiles Grant labels “one off of normal.” He lives by a philosophy that it’s always better to forgo fame, fortune and stability in… Read More →
St. Louis’ Beloved French Bistro Named to Food & Wine’s best new chefs list a few years back, Gerard Craft earned rave reviews for his innovative take on American fare at his restaurants Niche and Taste. Located in the Central West End neighborhood, his third restaurant, Brasserie, is reminiscent of the classic bistros you’d find on… Read More →
St. Louis’ Beloved French Bistro Named to Food & Wine’s best new chefs list a few years back, Gerard Craft earned rave reviews for his innovative take on American fare at his restaurants Niche and Taste. Located in the Central West End neighborhood, his third restaurant, Brasserie, is reminiscent of the classic bistros you’d find on… Read More →
In Celebration of Services for the UnderServed Last week, I had the pleasure of hosting the Inaugural Dinner for a Better New York, a benefit for Services for the UnderServed (SUS). I am thrilled to have had the opportunity to help pull together such a successful event. It speaks to the commitment of the amazing… Read More →
In Celebration of Services for the UnderServed Last week, I had the pleasure of hosting the Inaugural Dinner for a Better New York, a benefit for Services for the UnderServed (SUS). I am thrilled to have had the opportunity to help pull together such a successful event. It speaks to the commitment of the amazing… Read More →
A Twist on the Classic Italian Dessert By Gail Simmons
Austin’s Favorite Neighborhood Bistro Opened in 2010 by Ned Elliott, this 47-seat small bistro is celebrated for creative seasonal cuisine and unforgettable pastries and desserts. A golden-winged pig adorns the outside of the building, so it’s no surprise that pork plays a vital role in the menu, but it’s not the only praiseworthy protein—the expertly… Read More →
Austin’s Favorite Neighborhood Bistro Opened in 2010 by Ned Elliott, this 47-seat small bistro is celebrated for creative seasonal cuisine and unforgettable pastries and desserts. A golden-winged pig adorns the outside of the building, so it’s no surprise that pork plays a vital role in the menu, but it’s not the only praiseworthy protein—the expertly… Read More →
For Adventurous Tapas Chef Michael Smith owns two of Kansas City’s most lauded restaurants, his eponymous fine-dining eatery and the adjacent Extra Virgin, a more casual spot with a playful atmosphere (think jewel tones, oversized paintings and a central wood-and-iron bar) and a creative menu of Mediterranean tapas. Go with a crowd and share family-style, making… Read More →
For Adventurous Tapas Chef Michael Smith owns two of Kansas City’s most lauded restaurants, his eponymous fine-dining eatery and the adjacent Extra Virgin, a more casual spot with a playful atmosphere (think jewel tones, oversized paintings and a central wood-and-iron bar) and a creative menu of Mediterranean tapas. Go with a crowd and share family-style, making… Read More →
Family-Style Modern Israeli Cuisine Located in Philly’s Society Hill neighborhood, Zahav is often touted as the city’s best restaurant. The menu is a mashup of Israel’s culinary heritage, celebrating the region’s bold flavors with both classic and reinterpreted dishes from chef Michael Solomonov’s homeland. For first-timers I’d recommend the tay’im, or “taste of Zahav.” You’ll start with… Read More →
Family-Style Modern Israeli Cuisine Located in Philly’s Society Hill neighborhood, Zahav is often touted as the city’s best restaurant. The menu is a mashup of Israel’s culinary heritage, celebrating the region’s bold flavors with both classic and reinterpreted dishes from chef Michael Solomonov’s homeland. For first-timers I’d recommend the tay’im, or “taste of Zahav.” You’ll start with… Read More →
Save room for dessert Gooey, sweet pecan filling nested in a buttery crust. The perfect end to a Thanksgiving dinner. Serve with rum raisin ice cream.
Comfy, Contemporary & Downright Delicious At Tilia, Steven Brown has elevated the concept of a neighborhood cafe into a contemporary, family-friendly gastropub. It’s a place I can take my kid for breakfast, my wife for lunch and my lawyer for dinner. It has style, but most importantly it’s a place that feels instantly comfy. I… Read More →
Comfy, Contemporary & Downright Delicious At Tilia, Steven Brown has elevated the concept of a neighborhood cafe into a contemporary, family-friendly gastropub. It’s a place I can take my kid for breakfast, my wife for lunch and my lawyer for dinner. It has style, but most importantly it’s a place that feels instantly comfy. I… Read More →
My Go-To Dessert I first came across this dish while traveling with my father in the mid-1970s in Spain, where we saw this cake on almost every dessert table. Over the years, I was always trolling for a recipe like this and finally found one in an old Penelope Casas cookbook. I promptly started playing… Read More →
Here’s what’s on my mind October 24th is National Food Day. Check out FoodDay.org for events in your hometown and how you can get involved! I am going to be at Babson College doing my best to promote sustainable healthy food production and consumption in America. I believe in the civic power of entrepreneurship to change our lives… Read More →
Here’s what’s on my mind October 24th is National Food Day. Check out FoodDay.org for events in your hometown and how you can get involved! I am going to be at Babson College doing my best to promote sustainable healthy food production and consumption in America. I believe in the civic power of entrepreneurship to change our lives… Read More →
Queen of the Test Kitchen Tasting Table‘s senior food editor Raquel Pelzel lives and breathes food. As director of TT’s test kitchen, her head’s in the fridge most days crafting creative content for their daily email publications, she’s also written over a dozen cookbooks (including a few James Beard award-winners) and she still loves to… Read More →
Seasonal and Spontaneous By Bob & Sue David Kinch is one of the most innovative chefs of his time. We ate a special tasting menu, beginning with black olive madeleines on roasted red pepper gelee and ending with chocolate madeleines on strawberry gelee. In between were 18 bites which included two abalone courses, spot prawns… Read More →
Seasonal and Spontaneous By Bob & Sue David Kinch is one of the most innovative chefs of his time. We ate a special tasting menu, beginning with black olive madeleines on roasted red pepper gelee and ending with chocolate madeleines on strawberry gelee. In between were 18 bites which included two abalone courses, spot prawns… Read More →
A Northside Culinary Gem Chef Erick Harcey is reinventing pub classics at this neighborhood eatery in north Minneapolis, where your chef is also your waiter and the whole staff collaborates. This is one of the top (and maybe most underrated) restaurants in the Twin Cities. Every item on the chalkboard menu is a worthy adversary–from… Read More →
A Northside Culinary Gem Chef Erick Harcey is reinventing pub classics at this neighborhood eatery in north Minneapolis, where your chef is also your waiter and the whole staff collaborates. This is one of the top (and maybe most underrated) restaurants in the Twin Cities. Every item on the chalkboard menu is a worthy adversary–from… Read More →
Fresh. Simple. Pure. A neighborhood bistro in Miami’s design district where chef/owner Michael Schwartz showcases fresh, local and often rare ingredients in his simple, refined American cuisine. From the open kitchen and wood-burning oven come masterpieces like roasted whole snapper, spear-caught local grouper, slow roasted beef short ribs and chargrilled octopus. The menu changes daily… Read More →
Fresh. Simple. Pure. A neighborhood bistro in Miami’s design district where chef/owner Michael Schwartz showcases fresh, local and often rare ingredients in his simple, refined American cuisine. From the open kitchen and wood-burning oven come masterpieces like roasted whole snapper, spear-caught local grouper, slow roasted beef short ribs and chargrilled octopus. The menu changes daily… Read More →
Food to be taken seriously By Bob & Sue We dined at Chef Graham Elliott Bowles’ restaurant where his revamped 19-course tasting menu revisits his successful run at Avenues. Among the special offerings were a delicious lobster risotto with sea urchin, pig jowl with date and Iranian pistachios, a perfectly cooked guinea hen with matsutake… Read More →
