Kristina O’Neal and Adam Farmerie are exceptional in the restaurant world in that they are restaurant designers turned restaurateurs. Their New York-based architectural and design firm AvroKO...

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,...

In New York six months ago, Chris Corbin and Jeremy King from The Wolseley in London joined forces with Graydon Carter, editor of Vanity Fair , to re-open The Monkey Bar in the Elysée Hotel, a...

Here are highlights from my all-too-brief, not-at-all-comprehensive tasting of 2007 and 2008 Finger Lakes Rieslings [readers may remember similar comments that prefaced my set of tasting notes on...

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...

The blackboard outside Eisenberg’s Sandwich Shop, which has been in business on Fifth Avenue just south of Madison Square since 1929, displayed a clear message in four different coloured chalks....

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...

My first interview with the chef April Bloomfield took place five years ago, just before she set off for the US to make such a success of The Spotted Pig in New York’s West Village. It was...

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...

Despite being a frequent visitor to New York, I made my very first trip across the Brooklyn Bridge only a fortnight ago with many others from Manhattan as we headed for a Paul Simon concert at...

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”...

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...