Beef prices have escalated this year to the point where a perfectly ordinary New York Strip is 15.99 a lb. Filet Mignon? 29.99. Last week, I even noted that our favorite neighborhood bistro’s Steak Frites has diminished in size and risen $4.00 in price.…
Duck a l’Orange lives in our memory as one of our first introductions to restaurant food. In Montreal, where we lived, it was fairly ubiquitous on the city’s better menus. We loved it for its sweetness and its crunch. For the dark duck meat…
Chef Eric Ripert The weeknights leading up to Christmas are a time challenge to any home cook. We all want to minimize the time it takes to get dinner on the table so that we can take care of everything else that’s…
This weekend for the first time in what seems like months, we were finally able to walk anywhere without feeling that we were in a race against the cold. So we jumped on the opportunity to visit the High Line. This is an only-in-New York…
You have to be doing something right when you set up shop in 1987, in what was then an unfashionable part of town, and keep people packing your restaurant for the next 22 years. But it’s a love it or hate it kind of place…
PONANT EXPLORES THE GLOBE WITH A DECIDEDLY FRENCH ACCENT.
