Category Restaurant / Pub / Cafe / Event

Table Verte – the only French Vegetarian restaurant in NYC

This post is no longer valid.  This restaurant, sadly, closed as of Dec 2013.  RIP Table Verte….. ——————– French and vegetarian?  Yes, that is what Table Verte (Green Table??) is.  It’s a (relatively) new vegetarian restaurant in the East Village / Alphabet City area providing more vegetarian options to NYC.  Table Verte offers vegetarian, vegan, and […]

Jeanne and Gaston – a contemporary French restaurant

A week spent in Paris and the Loire Valley makes me no expert to talk about French food on this blog (and no, living in NYC with amazing French restaurants do not count, because I do not visit them often), but if the Association of Maitres Cuisinier de France invites a Chef to be Maitre […]

Chilean Wine Class at Puro Wine NYC

My first introduction to Chilean wine (rather the one that I remember) was in Aruba when we bought Chilean wines at a grocery store.  Why?  It was when we chose to stay at an all-inclusive resort when we did not quite understand what an all-inclusive resort really meant – how often has something like that […]