I recently had a fun evening shooting in the kitchen at elements with chef/owner Scott Anderson and guest chef Kevin Sbraga (above), who won Top Chef last season. The dinner was a special prix-fixe event (scroll down for the menu). I got to try a few
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SF Chefs spanned three days, August 5-7, and looked like it landed from somewhere in outer space, onto Union Square (notice how the tent is “punctured” by the Dewey Monument pole in the photo below). I went on Sunday around 1pm and the sides of the ginormous tent were lined with 25 chefs’ booths. We somehow
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Mario Batali‘s Del Posto restaurant in NYC was just awarded FOUR STARS by Sam Sifton of the New York Times. Usually I could give a shit, but this really excites me– mostly because I am a huge Batali fan, deep deep down. This
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PREFACE: Tales of the Cocktail Recap Part 1 Tales of the Cocktail Recap Part 2

New Orleans is perhaps most famous for its great food and rich musical tradition. They’re what folks often point to as the most tangible markers of a New Orleans culture that’s sometimes too intangible
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In Vegas, every other thing that came out of my
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Just found another one!!!

Watch the other two here.

Sorry for the last minute notice, but I just found out.

If you missed it, the video should be here afterwards.

Everything about Batch, Pichet Ong’s new bakery on West 10th Street, is just as lovely, adorable and amazing as he is. Pink walls, yellow peonies and eclectic hand crafted chandeliers made me almost as happy to be there
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Via Erin:

FOX’s sizzling unscripted series Hell’s Kitchen is now casting. Do you have the stamina to meet world-renowned Chef Gordon Ramsay’s extremely high cooking standards?

“Hell’s Kitchen” will follow the aspiring chefs 24/7 through the perils
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With my dining partner Matt in tow, we were off to the METApacking District for a restaurant week lunch at Morimoto. When Hua told me that Morimoto NYC was like being in Vegas,
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