Restaurant Critic Robin Goldstein, author of the new book Wine Trials, set up a fictitious restaurant and a fake wine list–even including some dogs that WS had panned in earlier reviews — and showed that Wine Spectator Awards are only ...
I’m a big fan of the burgers at Camillia Grill. So are the Manning brothers. Here’s what they told Esquire’s Tom Chiarella in October’s Esquire Magazine: ESQUIRE: Who has the higher Wonderlic score? ELI MANNING: I killed ...
Kim Wallace and Chris Carpenter know a lot about wine. Wallace, who once worked at Brenner’s Steakhouse in Houston, was crowned the Best Sommelier in Texas in 2006 by the Texas Sommeliers Conference. So when Wallace and winemaker Chris ...
The Cabernet Sauvignon from Napa’s Reynolds Family Winery could be a cult classic, but that doesn’t seem to drive winery owner Steve Reynolds. Reynolds was recently in town and shared a bottle of his 2005 Estate Cab with me. Year after ...
Balvenie’s U.S. Ambassador, Andrew Weir, hosted a scotch dinner at Pappas Bros. Friday night for twenty lucky patrons. Bottles included 15-year-old single barrel, 18-year-old madiera-cask, and 21-year-old doublewood scotches, all paired with ...
Working up a sweat on the back end of a 45-foot wooden fishing boat five miles out at sea seems an unlikely place for a golfer to spend a perfectly good morning. Yet here I am, draped head to toe in waterproof gear, entrenched in hand-to-hand combat ...
Hallelujah! There’s still a place in America where Bud Light is not the most popular beer, restaurants all over town – even fast-food outlets and street vendors – use seasonal, locally sourced ingredients, and more people play golf on an ...