Search
first taste
chefs + restaurants
First Taste: Diverxo, As In Diverse
DiverXo sits on a drab street in a drab part of town I can honestly say I had never been to before.
06.15.07
- Keywords
- lisa abend,
- madrid,
- first taste
chefs + restaurants
First (And Last?) Taste: Rech
An old-fashioned fish house in the 17th Arrondissement has recently been taken over by chef Alain Ducasse. And that should have been a good thing.
06.13.07
- Keywords
- alexander lobrano,
- paris,
- first taste,
- paris first taste
chefs + restaurants
First Taste: Spork
The hippest stretch of Valencia Street, in the Mission District, just got a lot hipper, thanks to Bruce Binns unpretentiously chic diner, Spork, in a former KFC.
06.13.07
- Keywords
- peggy knickerbocker,
- san francisco,
- first taste
chefs + restaurants
First Taste: Chéri Bibi
Tucked away on the eastern slope of the Butte de Montmartre, Chéri Bibi is a sure sign this appealingly ramshackle neighborhood is up for gentrification.
06.07.07
- Keywords
- alexander lobrano,
- first taste,
- restaurants,
- paris,
- france
chefs + restaurants
First Taste: Indika
Chef / owner Anita Jaisinghani's flavors are brash as pinball machines, louder even than the noise in the room.
05.23.07
- Keywords
- first taste,
- restaurants,
- indian,
- houston,
- francis lam
chefs + restaurants
First Taste: Grom
Grom, the new gelateria from Torino (a Slow Food favorite) is turning out fabulous and entirely organic gelatos.
05.22.07
- Keywords
- first taste,
- restaurants,
- new york,
- dessert,
- ruth reichl
chefs + restaurants
First Taste: Acquolina Hostaria
Angelo Troiani, the Michelin-starred chef at Il Convivio says he decided on a dare to open a fish restaurant and to create one of Rome's best seafood places.
05.02.07
- Keywords
- mimi murphy,
- first taste,
- rome,
- seafood
chefs + restaurants
First Taste: Gonpachi Beverly Hills
L.A.'s newest, biggest Japanese restaurant turns dinner into a movie.
05.01.07
- Keywords
- francis lam,
- first taste,
- japanese,
- los angeles
chefs + restaurants
First Taste: Provence
"This was the first 'nice' restaurant I ever came to in
New York," said one of my dinner companions, looking around.
04.26.07
- Keywords
- john willoughby,
- first taste,
- new york,
- french
food + cooking
First Taste: Insieme
The best lasagne in New York is now being served on
Broadway. It is, all by itself, reason to visit the new Insieme.
04.24.07
- Keywords
- ruth reichl,
- first taste,
- new york,
- italian