Few of the restaurants that I have ever enjoyed have their origins quite as geographically widespread as those that underpin the charming Calliope on New York's Lower East Side....

No sooner had Mia Van Der Water, the petite sommelier at North End Grill in Battery Park, New York, poured our first glass of Burn Cottage Pinot Noir 2010 (made by a Californian in New...

See our new  guide to all readers’ restaurant reviews . It was an accident waiting to happen, I suppose, but it caught the three of us by surprise, right at the outset of a recent long...

Joe Bastianich, with whom chef Mario Batali has opened over 20 restaurants in New York, Las Vegas and Singapore – and they now have their sights set on opening in Hong Kong – was in...

Over breakfast with friends at Maialino in the Gramercy Park Hotel, New York, I became aware of two emerging social phenomena in the city. The first, and more depressing, was evinced...

New York has been so closely associated with Italian restaurants for so long that news about the openings of Marea and Locanda Verde (pictured) earlier this year, and of Maialino a fortnight ago,...

See Linda's tasting notes next week. New York, one America's most progressive states and arguably its most powerful (Washington DC doesn't count as it's a district), remains...

The wine life of Peter Max (MF) Sichel of New York had always seemed to me quite interesting enough to warrant an article on these pages, but that was before we sat down to the dinner over which I...

Corton used to be Montrachet. Before this statement strikes consternation into lovers of Burgundy, where Corton and Montrachet are two of the most revered vineyards, or those who have...

Although the contents of the menu at Elettaria, the Indian-influenced restaurant opened by chef Akhtar Nawab and two partners earlier this year in New York’s West Village, are highly...

In a nutshell : Especially fine dry Rieslings. Main grapes : Concord and hybrids giving way to the usual suspects. New York state is an important wine producer with five quite...

I walked in the early evening sunshine from my hotel, The Alex on E45th street, down 1 st Avenue to 7 th street, where the Lower East Side meets the East Village in Manhattan, confident of some...

See also more tasting notes on New York wines. A recent trip to a part of the world where Hillary Clinton is regarded as a saviour and "a true missionary" was an eye-opener in many a...

This is an extremely partial look at some of the best wines being made in New York State which I had the chance to taste while filming in the Finger Lakes in mid September. Since the main focus...

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