Amsterdam Food Round-Up: Indonesian, Pancakes, and Herring!
Restaurants: De Witte Uyl, Amsterdam: Low-key local with interesting combos (NOW CLOSED!)
Events: New Taste of the Upper West Side: Local foods in delicious abundance
Events: Austria Uncorked: Juicy reds and crisp whites
Events: Txikifest: Basque wine poured on high
Restaurants: Cyrus, Healdsburg, CA: Lovely food on the low-key side
Restaurants: Tojo’s, Vancouver, BC: Where’s the sushi?
- by liz humphreys
- posted in: Austria: Wachau, Wine: Wineries
Out of our two days of winery visits in the Wachau region of Austria, our favorite was at Nikolaihof. 31-year-old Nikolaus Saahs, now the winemaker, showed us around his family’s winery and cellar, the oldest winery in Austria, with origins dating back to the year 985. Nikolaihof was also the first winery in Austria – if not the world – to use biodynamic practices.
- by liz humphreys
- posted in: China: Beijing, Food: Restaurants
For our last day in China, Jay and I wanted to try something different. We’d sampled a lot of pretty standard “Chinese food” – a few too many greasy, fried meats and vegetables passed around a Lazy Susan – but we hadn’t tried cuisine from the Yunnan province in the far southeast of China, which shares a border with Vietnam, Laos, and Burma.
- by j f grossen
- posted in: Food: Michelin Stars, France: Lyon
Valence, France / July 14, 2009 / dinner
Winederlust Rating (details below): 6.75 out of 10 / Winederlust Worthy: No
We were looking forward to eating here because Anne-Sophie Pic was the only female chef in France to crack the male-dominated French chef culture and be awarded three Michelin stars. (Plus she’s young – 39 – and petite, like me.) But we were also scared because when we looked up her tasting menu online the night before we visited, it said it was 395 euros.Per person.
