Posts by amw5g

We made them about 10 days in advance, as our "backup" in case the French Laundry didn't pan out since the hopes seemed bleak. We were not disappointed and I would hate to categorize it as some bastardized second. They do...

Rats! :(

Chez Bernard, on West Broadway I believe a few blocks up from Canal. Very laid-back, simple cuisine. Bernard runs the kitchen with a few helpers while there is one FOH woman (daughter?). I'm assuming it's still there although it's...

We tried for French Laundry over several days- even had my travel agent's concierge calling for us through a backdoor number. We stopped in daily while in Napa to see if we could get bumped from the wait list to a reservation. After...

Fair 'nuff. I'll keep that in check. Many thanks, Andrew

Let me lay out for you just what happened. As an anniversary present, my parents gave my wife and me a gift certif to a very well-respected and highly regarded restaurant in our city. We went and could tell that the kitchen was either...

Recently took a tour of San Francisco, Sonoma & Napa Valley with many oportunities to sample the aponymous cuisine. Here were some highlights. The wife wrote them in the context of a larger trip recap, so the flow may be a bit odd...

I am of the opinion that a chef and/or owner would welcome constructive criticism in conjunction with positive comments. A colleague of mine tells me that I'm wasting my time and making enemies if I do so and that the staff "is not...

Excellent review- consider goin' pro ;). My gal and I ate at JG in January of 2001 just before we moved from the Big Apple as a present to ourselves for having survived living there for over two years. Perhaps we set our sights too...

I'm sorry, I thought the original post was discussing alternate pronounciation of the same word rather than two separately spelled words. Kinda like "learned" and "learnED". Didn't mean to perpetuate that...