L.A. is fully in the era of the $400 tasting menu. Plus, a golden era for Champagne, a good bowl of pho, Feast of the Epiphany pastry and cheese so good it could make you cry. I’m Laurie Ochoa, ...

Tasting menus are a strange contradiction-filled curiosity in the culinary world. Though a relatively novel culinary standard that has become popular in little more than half a century, they have an ...

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We recently touched on the growing trend of tasting menus and noted how popular they have become, not only here, but all over the country. In that article about Quarter Acre’s ever-changing daily chef ...

In 1981, Mimi Sheraton, the New York Times restaurant critic at the time, was fed up with tasting menus. Nouvelle cuisine was all the rage, and this new trend, tasting menus (aka the “menu de ...

Tasting menus have been a cornerstone of fine dining in major cities globally, have never really caught on locally. However since the Michelin Guide landed in Dallas, a shift is taking place across ...

That was how Julia Burke, wine buyer for Flatiron Wines and Spirits in New York, described the Tarlant Brut Nature Zero Champagne when I visited the store recently. The tasting notes on Flatiron’s ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Writing about wine, spirits and related travel and hospitality. There’s a school of thought that says wine is not a good pairing ...

Tasting House in Los Gatos isn’t exactly new to pushing boundaries. The downtown wine bistro has already built a reputation for its globe-spanning list of over 1,000 bottles, 65 plus wines by the ...