Category: Restaurant Reviews

Restaurant Review: Moto, Chicago
Smack dab in the middle of the meatpacking and grocery district of Chicago, it would be easy to miss Moto

Restaurant Review: Quince, San Francisco
Pasta will never be the same in this town. It would be very easy to call Quince the best Italian

Restaurant Review: Sushi Ken, Tokyo
Most people I’ve met who consider themselves devotees of a particular food style have a gold standard ” one restaurant

Restaurant Review: Yokaro, Tokyo
To say that I have eaten at Yokaro more than any other restaurant in the world might be an outrageous
The Best Sushi in New York City: The Excel Spreadsheet
Epicurious has recently redone their site and they now have a food column called The Corner Table. They recently got

Restaurant Review: Frisson, San Francisco
San Francisco has been a dining destination for years, but to those familiar with the New York restaurant scene, there

Restaurant Review: Manresa, Los Gatos
“In the future, I think we’ll go even further in mixing cuisines. French and Italian, Italian and Japanese, etc. We’ll

Restaurant Review: Bar Masa, New York City
There’s just something I will never get over about going to a fine restaurant in a shopping mall. Even if

Restaurant Review: Alma, San Francisco
When the moors invaded Spain, they brought rice with them, and spices, and when they departed they left behind palaces,
WWGE: Where Would Guliani Eat?
From Right This Way, the Fodor’s Blog: If you were the Republican national committee and needed to get the list

Restaurant Review: The Public, San Francisco
The last time I walked into the building at the corner of 11th and Folsom in San Francisco’s SOMA district,

Restaurant Review: Lombardi’s Pizza (and Every Good Pizza Restaurant), New York City
So I sat down this morning to write a snappy review of some of the best pizza I’ve ever eaten
Top 100 Lists for Inexpensive and Good NYC Restaurants
From the Fodor’s Travel Blog, Right this Way: Village Voice critic Robert Sietsema’s annual themed lists of the “best and

Restaurant Review: Jean Georges, New York City
Why do I splurge occasionally on a meal? Not just because I love good food, but because every meal I

Restaurant Review: H&H Bagels, New York City
OK. OK. So it ain’t a restaurant. Heck they won’t even toast a bagel for you, not even if you

Restaurant Review: Bao 111, New York City
In San Francisco we tend to think of ourselves as flush with good fusion restaurants of all sorts, especially Vietnamese.

Restaurant Review: Rubicon, San Francisco
I’ll just get it right out of the way and say that Rubicon is, and has been for years, quite

Restaurant Review: Circolo, San Francisco
I tend to forget how difficult it is for a good restaurant to create a harmony of food, service, and

Restaurant Review: Tartine Bakery, San Francisco
There’s something sinfully delicious about sitting at a sunny sidewalk table in the middle of a weekday eating a pastry.