Gawain Young, UK: The wine list at The Harrow does indeed look impressive. However, I can't help but notice the mark up on the wines compared to retail prices. I appreciate restaurants have...

At 8.30 pm, as the sun finally set, the outline of Villa Más, one of Europe's most unusual restaurants, finally began to take shape. It is located in the centre of the bay of Sant Feliu de...

The wine element in any restaurant bill is the elephant in the room. Size is the most obvious comparable element in this analogy because any bottle of wine, other than the house wine, is...

I found two great restaurant wine bargains last weekend in Paris, at opposite ends of the scale. Some of you may think I have gone a bit crazy about Turkish wine . It's certainly true...

When the media picked up yet again on that old chestnut of ‘exorbitant wine mark-ups in restaurants’ a couple of months ago I decided to seek out the views of a London restaurateur...

Feedback as a result of my recent purple prose 2003 story on the Wine Spectator Restaurant Awards set me thinking about what I reckon constitutes an exceptionally good wine list. I note for...