Food and Drink
Recipe of the week: Beyond tapas: Small plates with Mediterranean flavor 
Sasa Mahr-Batuz and Andy Pforzheimer offer recipes for swordfish and mussels from The Barcelona Cookbook.
Vampiro: The perfect morning-after cocktail
This concoction will cure even “the mother of all hangovers.”
Another day, another Wolfgang Puck restaurant
At the Austrian-born celebrity chef's latest venture, the service is superb, the wine list “thrilling,” and there are several can’t-miss dishes.
Recipe of the week: The restaurant is forgotten, but the recipe lives on
Chef Matthew Kenney's Manhattan restaurants are now closed, but his dishes live on in his cookbook, Big City Cooking.
Brown Sugar Kitchen: Where Oakland’s waffle fanatics flock
BSK's spice-scented waffles are so good that, to paraphrase Raymond Chandler, they’d “make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.”
Recipe of the week: September in Nova Scotia: Cod cakes with chowchow
In Nova Scotia, potatoes are a prominent feature of cod cakes.
New York’s newest four-star restaurant
I haven’t handed out many four-star ratings as a food critic, said Frank Bruni in The New York Times
‘Brett’ ales: A walk on the wild side
Lately a few pioneering U.S. brewers have been courting a bug called Brett, said Greg Kitsock in The Washington Post.
Recipe of the week: A cheater’s guide to super-crusty steaks
The perfect steak is salty, sizzling, and singed on the outside, said the editors of Cook’s Country.
Cru Beaujolais—fine sipping any time of year
A tasting panel at The New York Times recommends ...
Re-creating southwestern France in West Hollywood
Chef Sébastien Archambault has turned the restaurant at the Andaz West Hollywood into LA's newest hip hangout.
Recipe of the week: French cuisine: A simple classic from Julia Child
For the first time, Child's classic Mastering the Art of French Cooking is at the top of The New York Times’ advice and how-to best-seller list.
Valpolicella: Not always mediocre
The Italian winemaking renaissance has finally come to Valpolicella.
Three ‘best new restaurants’ that serve local food
These three new restaurants are standouts that caught the fancy of the editors at BonAppetit.com.
Recipe of the week: Pork tenderloin: Perfect for grilling, indoors or out
Francis Mallmann, the renowned chef from Argentina, shows how the effect of cooking with an open fire can be achieved indoors.
Portuguese reds that rival Napa’s
The Duoro Valley of Portugal has become one of the world’s hottest wine regions.
Boston’s Il Casale: ‘Naked’ pasta—and a fire pole
This three-star celebrity magnet in the suburb of Belmont is housed in a former firehouse.
Recipe of the week: Seafood: Local delicacies from Seattle’s Spring Hill restaurant
The Pacific Northwest has become one of the most exciting foodie destinations in America.
The year’s ‘Top 25 Beers’
Three winners from Draft magazine's 'Top 25' of the year.
Austin’s thriving restaurant scene
Country music stars, button-down legislators, cowboys, and hippies all call the capital of Texas home.
