Texas does not have a single Michelin Star restaurant. The reason has nothing to do with the quality of food or inventiveness of Texas chefs. To award stars there must be a Michelin chapter in the state. Texas does not have one. This said, for just one night, there was a Michelin Star meal served in Texas. Karen and I found Ferrari’s Italian Villa and Chop House shortly after they opened at…
Everyone’s tastes change over time. Whether it is in clothes, movies, friends, or favorite activities. Your tastes also change in food and beverages. You go to a new restaurant and just love a dish they have. You go out with friends and they introduce you to a new beer or wine or mixed drink. That becomes your go-to beverage… for a while. The problem is there is just so many different beverages…
A Boston Sommelier’s Insights Karen and I were recently in Boston for a long weekend, visiting the Presidential Libraries there and in Hyde Park, New York. Two very different leaders, responding to two very different times in the history of our nation. We became interested in visiting all of the libraries of the fourteen presidents who have them, after a visit to the Bush library here in Dallas. We discovered the National…
Karen and Byron, with consultation from our California friends Pam and Warner, developed the itinerary for a day in Napa. The day would consist of driving out from San Francisco, where Byron lives and we are visiting, to Bistro Don Giovanni, located at 4110 Howard Lane in Napa, where we met Pam and Warner who were in Napa for a conference. Earlier in the week they had been to the Patel Winery,…
A number of years ago we did a private tour of Sicily which has never been forgotten. Giuseppe was both our driver and guide. The thing we always harken back to was while we met Giuseppe in Palermo to begin our adventure, we asked if we could stop in Corleone along the way. The terse response was ‘My father is not respected in Corleone.’ Obviously, we never toured the hillsides where Michael…