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KISMET: turning Hollywood dining upside down
KISMET is a locally sourced, contemporary bistro turning in food savvy Angelenos. Brisk, unpretentious, yet unique, past the star-studded boulevard on its quieter strip, at KISMET Eastern Mediterranean traditional cuisines ...
Chef’s Table at Brooklyn Fare: #foodporn² in low-carb, luxe tasting menu on Manhattan
The Chef’s Table at Brooklyn Fare has entered a legendary status on the New York culinary scene. The whispers of the hedonistic tongues have tipped the heavily Japan-inspired, in French-cuisine-trained ...
The Single Thread experience: seamless Japanese omotenashi hospitality in the agrarian California
There is nothing comparable to Single Thread in the complex genre of seasonal kaiseki in America. The Chef's Table famed N/naka in LA, curated by Japan-born chef Niki Nakayama nods ...
Zuni Café: slow food in San Francisco is worth waiting for the best chicken in America
Zuni Café is to San Francisco what Chez Panisse is to Berkeley, an institution where locals gather over sustainably sourced superb food. Like Alice Water, Judy Rodgers was authentic with ...
The Charter Oak: "simple is the hardest thing in the world", declares the culinary star of Napa Valley
The Charter Oak restaurant is a relative newcomer to the indulgent Napa Valley dining scene, yet the historic farmhouse has already lifted up, literally, the ceiling of culinary experiences around ...
Fine & Raw Chocolate: life tastes better with chocolate made in Brooklyn
The Brooklyn manufactory of Fine & Raw Chocolate is a spectacle blending in seductive aromas, churning machinery and hand-wrapping that happily ends in decadent chocolate hedonism. Their bean to bar, ...
Corison winery: making wine sustainably by the best female winemaker in America
Cathy Corison is widely viewed as the best female winemaker in America. She parades an elegant stride of Napa Cab as nobody else in the valley. Her wines are always ...
CLOSED – SHED: connecting the land and table sustainably in Healdsburg, California
It tears my heart, when a superb, forward-looking restaurant shuts down. Ahead of its time in its particular location, SHED CLOSED just before the global mayhem of 2020. In my ...
Farmshop: families and locavores indulge casually California farm produce in Santa Monica
Like a city barn filled with edibles Farmshop is a casual eatery and food market inside the Brentwood Country Mart. Set in the concurring triangle of Brentwood, Santa Monica and ...