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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)
Ask the Wheel
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.
Dave suggested sustenance as a name for this section. I like it. Any objections? Other suggestions?
6/4/00--La Bouillabaisse on Atlantic ave in Brooklyn--was good but too rich on the sauces for me--i enjoyed the two dishes with the spicy marinara(sp?) sauce most--but lots of fresh seafood (and other stuff) not a fun list but only $4 corkage--we ended the meal w/ poached pear & blue cheese served with 90 Quinterelli Amarone(thanks Jim)
green market report: a new very tiny red potato, the organic dudes are on fire as usual, start of the awesome sugar snap peas and asparagus...
well i checked with a couple people on Meigas, both glowing reviews. they are both in the wine biz and one travels to spain to eat, the other is of cuban blood. it is a fancy place and higher end but also of interest is that the chef was sous-chef at??....El Bulli
our fear full leader before the mojito's---http://www.eatonweb.com/photos/newyork500/
i want to go eat at Meigas(sp?) on hudson near king?? spanish food--its grilled sardines season i believe...on the mojito trail heres some ideas Isla 39 downing st bedford/varick 212-352-cuba after 10 the table's are moved and a dance floor is made!!!...and Chicama douglas rodriquez's new spot he was at Patria and hes doing Unico soon (wants to have a 4* spanish!!) any way Chicama is in the old ABC/ Colina space--they make fresh to order ceviche and grilled octopus in a black olive sauce plus good music and lots of tasty drinks inc mojito's....
el bulli is the most talked about restaurant these days--most i talk to dislike or feel indifferent but some say fun and even if not great think its genius and will stop by at some point again--one looser dish recently reported was beet broth with olive oil sorbet sprinkled with powdered yogurt, another interesting to me was a ravioli made from squid that had coconut and ginger inside with something that when you bite it it bites back (something exploded) i think that has lots of possibilitys....
my tickets for Fiji arrived today from Qantas's tour arm called Jet About so if anyone has any restaurant suggestions for Nadi or Suva--please advise!!