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ran across this item in the wash post about a restaurant happening in our little burg.
6/24/00 very fine dinner and lots of future promise for Blue Hill--1) nice wine list with modest markup 2) fresh seafood with tasty presentation and the prices are fair!! 3) there is an outdoor garden (we forgot to look at it)
4) desserts were super--they are new and will grow like adding a cheese plate which would have been nice when we ate--maybe there was too much butter but this is something i need to figure out is it that essential to fine dining...
alex are you aware of the NYC Rooftop Honey?? Linden, Locust, clover and flowers provide the pollen!! Ther are upper west side cuvee's.
6/18/00 We had dinner at Surya a high-end Indian and Indian influenced cuisine. I think the group of seven all found it very tasty and some dishes were super yummy (a sprouted lentil salad!!). They are at 302 Bleeker St. near 7th Ave South. But for me the best Indian food (in NYC) is the vegetarian Vatan 409 3rd Ave near 29th, set like a small South Indian village. Great food but terrible wine list and will not allow you to bring w/ corkage fee:<( I would love to eat there one day with a bunch of German and Alsacian wines...
strawberries are all over the Green Market!! w/o even tasting just look at the difference between the organic ones and the inorganic--the organic look like the rarer French fraise!!--do you know that strawberry is a great absorber(sp?) and it hold all those pesticides etc very very well--so buy organic strawberries or dont care!! also according to Andrew Weil next to strawberry is bell pepper and cantalope w/ major pesticide levels--most cantalopes come from the big mexican farms mass produced and very untasty (to me) and full of....eat less / eat better!!
found this listing of vineyards while searching for stagecoach vineyards. my father has some stake in it. i dont think they are bottling wines,just harvesting. he mentioned that they grow for cabernet and one of the buyers was kendall jackson. thats about all i know.
6/10/00 Chez Polaner--learned a simple Sardenia dish--will cook it soon--tuna steak that you wash than dry in a towel and do as the French Laundry chef does run a knife over the it and scrape any water off the surface (it help's sear better)--grill or pan cook than slice up add salt pepper herbs olive oil, cover with arugala and chill--later serve by scooping the tuna holding the arugala and flip on plate--great w/ french red burgundy or cab franc from the loire valley both slighty chilled too!!
reports are that Blue Hill is awesome--lots of buzz in the food / wine bizz--chef came from???...El Bulli!!!
6/8/00 dinner at 71 Clinton Fresh Foods--fab again--i didnt taste but he did a Foie Gras(sp?) soup that freaked the table--new desserts were twisted and expanded presentations of the dishes rocked--we all brought the best wines we could get and mine were the top two (not only to me)--1978 Bartelo Moscarello Barolo & 1995 Weinbach Tokay Quintessence de Grains Noble "Cuvee 100th Year" (best dessert wine i ever tasted) other yummy's were 90 Echezeaux DRC, 92 Weil Spatlese Trocken, 92 Grivolet Meursault Clos de Perriere...SPOKE TO WYLIE ABOUT THE "GREAT CHEFS AND SHAMANS" DINNER BY AMAZON CONSERVATION TEAM AND SUSAN SARANDON....
coincidence?? i was on my way to 71 Clinton St for dinner and in the cab was a book full of #'s and personal photos and Huichol photos--there was a card for Chicama (see below) and it turns out he did the glass wear for them--just tracked him down through Chicama's manager at a friends house and he is on the way over to pick it up (p.s he hadnt even realized he lost this--maybe that means he didnt)
6/7/00 Rhone Restaurant new spot with 99% Rhone list (champagne)--we liked the food, chef ex Gramercy Tavern, wine list is of course interesting and will be even better when the more 98's roll in this year. and if they start to rock hopefully lots of older and rarer juice will show up...they got 16 bottle's of Raymond Trollat Saint Joseph 1996 (now 15 and list saz 97) @ $44--it is really worth a trip to the bar or a cheese plate!! VERY RARE JUICE
the owners of Babbo, Lupa etc have opened a fish restaurant called Ekra?? 43 and 9th--i am going week of June 18th anyone want to come w/ me and the lovely Linda (hope shes coming)--Suyra also that week too so lets pick some dates--i'm on liver detox next week all 7 days!!
6/6/00 first nyc mojito (very expensive) excellente but we will try to do better on the roof of 135R one night??:>) than to Meigas was very taste E--my favs was salmon served in a cream gaspacho(sp?), the seafood risotto with seared scallop's on top, pepper's stuffed w/tuna, everything was good to excellent one dish was weak due to overcooking, all reports on the suckling pig were top notch--dessert super super fun, bread very very weak (but the same in spain / its very rare to find good bread)--wine list lacked something but we had some tasty older wines for fair prices--expensive night over all--MB has put Suyra as next stop on the World Pro Sustenance Tour
6/5/00 lots of food at Chez Beavers but best of all was the Mag of 1960 Vega Unico (thanks Peter Wasserman)
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I'm passing this question on for a friend (oh O.K., it's for my Mom.) Any words of wisdom for her?
"I leave Friday the 16th in the AM for two weeks in Burgundy at a house we have rented in Vezelay (near Auxerre).... Please ask Michael if he has any wine or winery suggestions. We will have two cars and lots of time. We are about 1 hour drive west of Dijon or Beaune. We have cut out many articles and understand the vagaries of the grape in that area. We are just south of Chablis, yet the four of us are generally red wine enthusiasts, but not stupid or intransigent. It may just be that this area is not as lush as the prior rental in Provence just up the lane from Gigondas. Now that was a place to drink wine!"
For breakfast Pillsbury cinnamon rolls hot from the oven, coffee (Community brand New Orleans blend with chickory mixed with the last few ground up Columbians), and the sweet solitude of la casa blanca on Dumaine.