It was wonderful to be back in London, the site of a brisk 36-hour layover en route to meet my sister's probably-future in-laws in...

I can't stay away from omakase meals in New York City. My last NYC omakase at Nakazawa just reinforced what I already knew––an excellent...

I am bad at making reservations. I tend to wait to book trips until only a few weeks before, and at that point it's too late to get the...

Charlotte is a budding food city, and a particularly good locale for many varieties of Asian cuisine. The notable exception is...

I am having a passionate love affair with Sichuan cuisine these days. This started with my exploration of one of the most classic Sichuan...

I have few particular complaints about my single lifestyle. It allows me to be nimble and spontaneous, easily adapt to new circumstances,...

When I was first preparing to move to Charlotte, I heard all around that South End was the happening-est neighborhood in town. When I...

There are some restaurants that are just too precious, wonderful, and important than can be believed––institutions of food that quietly...

Certain areas of Charlotte experienced a mass migration of rural Appalachian and Carolina Piedmont populations, as well as formerly...

It's hard to pinpoint a seminal dining experience that made me into the insatiable food lover that I am today, but the closest thing I...

I've always been a staunch defender of northern California's food scene over New York City's, mostly because that's where I learned to...

Sushi omakase meals are a dime a dozen in New York City (or, perhaps more accurately, three grand a dozen). The super-high-end sushi...

The Maine coast has approximately 24,398,423,876,323,907 restaurants serving lobster. This is the land of “lobstah,” especially this time...

Boston is one of those cities I feel bad that I haven't spent more time visiting. I finally got up to Boston to see a dear friend's...

I must admit that I have been pretty bad about exploring my new city and environs and seeing what's on offer. When I had dinner with a...

I hadn't been back to Chicago since my last (brief) visit mid-summer of 2020, when almost everything was shuttered, but my sister and I...

Back in the era of big name European celebrity chefs establishing outpost restaurants, in the heyday of places like the Bellagio, when...

Both regular readers of my blog know that I adore José Andrés, the Spanish celebrity chef who is also the founder of World Central...

When I lived in Los Angeles, I used to visit Mélisse, one of West LA's most storied fine dining destinations, with some regularity, since...

Los Angeles is probably the best sushi city in the United States. New Yorkers may @ me, but much of the better sushi in NYC, while world...