There's a piece in today's (Nov. 26, 2008) New York Times' Dining section about how dinner hosts can achieve a successful Thanksgiving dinner, and the advice comes from business school professors. "The CEO of Thanksgiving Dinner." I read it out loud to Julia and within 10 seconds, we both had the same thought: "This could apply to our Gourmet Club." In case you haven't read it, here's the link: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/26/dining/26dele.html?_r=1&ref=dining .
Happy Thanksgiving,
Leonard
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Monday, October 27, 2008
Restaurant Ramblings
This is my first time contributing to a blog, and since this one was created I've been to a few great restaurants. One of them was in Chicago last May, while visiting
Rachel. It's called North Pond. http://www.northpondrestaurant.com/ It's nestled in Lincoln Park in a beautiful old building, with wonderful food, noted for focusing on local produce, meats and all things within an hour or so radius of Chicago. They're serious. When the waitress asked for drink orders, I put in an order for my standard cocktail, a Stoli on the rocks. I was surprised when she said the restaurant bar did not carry the famous Russian vodka, but they did have several vodkas from the region, including ones from Wisconsin and Illinois. I ordered one and it was quite good. The food too, needless to say, was wonderful.
Then in August, while at a wedding for a first cousin's son in Napa, Calif., Julia and I spent our wedding anniversary having a celebratory lunch at Ubuntu, a wonderful vegetarian restaurant in downtown Napa that's so creative you'll be enchanted throughout the meal. We might have gone for dinner, but the wedding was that night. It's claim to fame is that the New York Times' restaurant critic Frank Bruni lisited it as one of his top 10 most influential restaurants in America for 2008. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/27/dining/27count.html?_r=1&ex=1204779600&en=4ede7ee9683b0376&ei=5070&emc=eta1&oref=slogin .
Finally, while in Israel in September and early October, we ate at a great home-cooking Yemini restaurant in Tel Aviv, the name of which escapes me now, but I'd be happy to give you if you contact me. (I have their card.) And a great Asian fusion restaurant called Wang's Grill in Eilat. Actually the only great thing there were these spring rolls filled with absolutely delicious duck. Of course for me the fun thing was ordering meat with abandon since Wang's Grill, as the Tel Aviv Yemini restaurant were both kosher.
Rachel. It's called North Pond. http://www.northpondrestaurant.com/ It's nestled in Lincoln Park in a beautiful old building, with wonderful food, noted for focusing on local produce, meats and all things within an hour or so radius of Chicago. They're serious. When the waitress asked for drink orders, I put in an order for my standard cocktail, a Stoli on the rocks. I was surprised when she said the restaurant bar did not carry the famous Russian vodka, but they did have several vodkas from the region, including ones from Wisconsin and Illinois. I ordered one and it was quite good. The food too, needless to say, was wonderful.
Then in August, while at a wedding for a first cousin's son in Napa, Calif., Julia and I spent our wedding anniversary having a celebratory lunch at Ubuntu, a wonderful vegetarian restaurant in downtown Napa that's so creative you'll be enchanted throughout the meal. We might have gone for dinner, but the wedding was that night. It's claim to fame is that the New York Times' restaurant critic Frank Bruni lisited it as one of his top 10 most influential restaurants in America for 2008. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/27/dining/27count.html?_r=1&ex=1204779600&en=4ede7ee9683b0376&ei=5070&emc=eta1&oref=slogin .
Finally, while in Israel in September and early October, we ate at a great home-cooking Yemini restaurant in Tel Aviv, the name of which escapes me now, but I'd be happy to give you if you contact me. (I have their card.) And a great Asian fusion restaurant called Wang's Grill in Eilat. Actually the only great thing there were these spring rolls filled with absolutely delicious duck. Of course for me the fun thing was ordering meat with abandon since Wang's Grill, as the Tel Aviv Yemini restaurant were both kosher.
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Aslyum Avenue Hazardous for Eaters of Food!
You are all invited to view a befuddled me on Channel 3 News, hopefully before You Tube removes it for possible copyright infringement. I labeled it "inadvertent Jewish humor". When you get the page with the video, read "More..." about it, in the upper right hand corner. Michael the link is below, just copy and paste it and enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZqn59qoyhw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZqn59qoyhw
You are SUCH a movie star! rb
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Connecticut Restaurants
I like the idea of restaurant recommendations; we had dinner last night at 2 Hopewell
in S. Glastonbury and do recommend it; it is all local produce and organic meat and
fish and was delicious. The ambience is nice too.
in S. Glastonbury and do recommend it; it is all local produce and organic meat and
fish and was delicious. The ambience is nice too.
Hi Linda. I changed the posting title to Connecticut Restaurants. All of us are now administrators of the blog, so we can edit anything. rb
Friday, July 18, 2008
Food Allergies/ Strong Dislikes/Preferences
Sam- no hummus, no sesame seeds(his tongue DID swell after Judy's chicken which Sam chose to eat). rb
Leonard- kosher.rb
Boston Restaurants
Lumiere- West Newton. Wonderful. A Green Restaurant. Organic/Local/Sustainable. rb
Blue Ginger- Do NOT go there. Had a horrible dinner there last August. rb
I ate at Rendezvous in Cambridge(Central Square) earlier this week. Really good. Local/ best seafood chowder with striped bass, clams, corn and tomatoes. rb
Chicago Restaurants
I ate lunch at Rick Bayless's Frontera Grill this past weekend. Great. Relatively inexpensive, fresh preparation. I had a tortilla soup and it was delicious. rb
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