Recent content by Thor

Unless there's blood sausage. ;-)

Jay, I'd be more worried about you than the very amenable Arnold.

Glad you got back OK. Hope there wasn't too much residual damage from the previous evening's festivities. You're exactly right about the wine list. Though the Saumon was a nice surprise.

ROFL. Chave.

M. Iverson and I ate at a Paris resto this week where the wine list proudly announced "Parker 100/100" for one of the wines on the list. Yeah, that was a drag. Good restaurant, though.

Yes, that beet sushi was quite something. As was the beet "merguez." Nice to see you over pork and marrow, Jay.

Expensive, yes. Surprisingly short for a three-star (a lot of pages, widely-spaced entries on them). Very short of anything mature or mature-ish, at any price. A few natural wines, as if they'd dabbled for a while, but otherwise few surprises, other than what's missing. I really struggled to...

FWIW, I've also had terrific, indeed legendary, vegetarian meals with Stuart and at his (or JD's) house. And at the late-unlamented Spiedini, at which Stuart's friends regularly joined together to contribute to a month of Stuart's free post-Spiedini dining on the leftovers. (Sorry, was that...

That seems unwise, on multiple levels.

Romney is campaigning in PA to try to win the popular vote. If he thought he could still win the electoral vote, he wouldn't be in PA. PA doesn't help him if he loses...well, any number of scenarios that Sam Wang, Nate Silver, or any number of analysts will explain in terms of the math. But PA...

"Gust at 158 km/h clocked at Bec de l'Aigle" - a few days ago, from a Facebook friend who lives in Provence (with photo).

That's a lot of contact fluid.

I'm a full ocean away, so your gin is safe.

If you'll pardon the interruption, by sheer coincidence I found myself at Vivant Cave the night after Bruno Verjus published the email exchange, and had the opportunity to chat with Pierre Jancou for a good long while. In the aftermath, what pissed him off wasn't the request for a comped meal...

I blame Eric Texier.