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The Charter Oak – St. Helena, CA
In 2020 the Glass Fire tore through northern Napa and Sonoma in an unprecedented disaster for California's epicenter of wine growing....
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the_maestro
- Dec 21, 2022
- 7 min
The Back(b)log: Tasting Wine on Colorado's Western Slope
It's a small obsession of mine to find places making wine where you'd never assume excellent grapes would grow. Most recently I visited...
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the_maestro
- Dec 17, 2022
- 6 min
Mom's 65th at Angler – San Francisco, CA
Since Josh Skenes stepped away from the kitchen at Saison, his new flagship project is the mini-chain of Angler restaurants in San...
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the_maestro
- Dec 14, 2022
- 6 min
Back(b)log: Roister and Aviary – Chicago, IL
One of the evenings I missed writing up in the shuffle of my big move out west was a combo dinner and cocktail night during Chicago Pride...
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the_maestro
- Dec 11, 2022
- 5 min
Nari – San Francisco, CA
Most often, the experience at eating at a Thai restaurant in any given city in America is largely predictable––inexpensive food in strip...
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the_maestro
- Nov 20, 2022
- 4 min
Boulevard – San Francisco, CA
Nothing could have made me happier than a visit from my mother and sister a few months after my move to northern California, even more...
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the_maestro
- Oct 11, 2022
- 5 min
The Maestro in California
I finally left academia after my rather disastrous and traumatic experience teaching at Davidson College. Making woefully little money,...
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the_maestro
- Jul 18, 2022
- 16 min
Blue Hill at Stone Barns (2) – Pocantico Hills, NY
Regular readers of the blog have doubtless come across at least one of the reviews of my meals at the Stone Barns Center for Food and...
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the_maestro
- Jul 13, 2022
- 6 min
Comparing Impossible and Beyond Burgers
I confess I was a shameless ridiculer of the new meat-substitute products that have flooded the market and taken even fast food...
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the_maestro
- Jul 4, 2022
- 11 min
The Inn at Little Washington – Washington, VA
Decades before the widespread propagation of the very idea of "fine dining" in America, DC native and self-taught chef Patrick O'Connell...
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the_maestro
- Jul 2, 2022
- 7 min
Albi – Washington, DC
As covered previously in the latest installment of the "Eat Like the Maestro" series, during my little road trip out east a multi-day...
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the_maestro
- Jun 29, 2022
- 4 min
Eat like the Maestro in DC
Car Talk, my very favorite old NPR show, took calls from all over the country, and whenever Tom and Ray got a call from DC, Tom always...
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the_maestro
- Jun 21, 2022
- 4 min
Eeva – Philadelphia, PA
Eater has been doing a pretty cool "Best New Restaurants in America" list of late, and since I found myself with a car and no real...
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the_maestro
- Jun 18, 2022
- 5 min
The best lobster roll in Maine, Part 2
Once I'd dropped off my friend's new Bernedoodle puppy in Boston and enjoyed some culinary offerings in one of my favorite cities in the...
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the_maestro
- Jun 12, 2022
- 8 min
A day tasting wine in the Finger Lakes
I made the probably silly but still fun decision to help out some friends by picking up their freshly-adopted Bernedoodle puppy in...
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the_maestro
- May 19, 2022
- 20 min
A journey down Kentucky's Bourbon Trail
Planning to coop myself up at Mom's in Iowa for much of the summer while I plot my next move meant that I needed to drive myself and my...
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the_maestro
- May 17, 2022
- 3 min
Eat Like the Maestro in Asheville
I'm on the cusp of bidding "adieu" to Charlotte for good but have many fond memories of the Queen City, particularly its many green...
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the_maestro
- May 7, 2022
- 7 min
Sushi|Bar at Scratch – Los Angeles, CA
Y'all already know the Maestro's first item on his to-do list when visiting Los Angeles––eat sushi. Because of LA's proximity to the...
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the_maestro
- May 5, 2022
- 10 min
Sonoma County and an Exercise in Wine Adjectives
People rightfully make fun of the highfalutin nature of descriptors for wine that wineries, critics, tasting room staff, sommeliers,...
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the_maestro
- May 1, 2022
- 4 min
Pacific Cocktail Haven – San Francisco, CA
Just over a year ago a fire claimed the original location of Pacific Cocktail Haven, perhaps the most important cocktail bar to open in...
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