Since 1978, four-course Early Bird Dinners (5-6pm) for just $15.95 and four-course Prix Fixe meals for only $23.00 have helped Christophe Restaurant Francais carve out a nice niche for itself as a country bistro amid a landscape of Italian, Japanese, Thai, Mexican and other ethnic restaurants. I dined here often 15 years ago when I…
Cork’d is a free service for wine aficionados like you and me. Here, you can: • Catalog, rate and review the wines you’ve tasted. • Track the wines you’d like to try and buy. • Subscribe to what your buddies have reviewed. • Discover and share wine. • And more. Plus, it’s all free, all…
Art hotels are muy popular these days. In Cape Town, there’s one that only has 13 rooms, but it’s set up like an interactive art exhibit. Like others, each room of the Daddly Long Legs Art Hotel is custom-designed by a local artist. But here, designers, musicians, poets and photographers are also involved so the…
This company makes absolutely, drop-dead gorgeous Argentinean leather cases for all of your electronics –– from MP3 players, Smartphones and Mobile Phones to Games and Accessories. I’ve actually written about them in catalogs for Palm PDAs. Build the case to fit your taste: www.vajachoice.com. Add text and graphic personalization, belt clips, matching accessories, and more.
Prada. Tiffany & Co. Saks Fifth Avenue. Bergdorf Goodman. FAO Schwartz. And Apple Computer? If you think I’m mixing apples and oranges, look who just opened its newest retail store last Friday in Manhattan on 59th & Fifth Avenue. The store, Apple’s 147th, will feature a 32-foot glass cube entrance, a glass-and-steel circular staircase, 24-hour…
With “Poseidon” playing on movie screens across the US, audiences are again intrigued by cruise ship disasters. But the grandmother of them all remains the “H.M.S. Titanic,” which sunk after hitting an iceberg 453 miles southeast of Newfoundland on April 15, 1912. If you want to see a piece of undersea history, visit “Titanic: The…
If you can’t fly for 19 hours from California to New Zealand to sample the wines, don’t worry. The Hotel Bel-Air, that Mobil five-star award winner, is bringing the best of New Zealand wines to you. Celebrate with the LA hipster crowd at 6:30pm on June 8 at a special fifth annual culinary event and…
Don’t you just love summer? The smell of barbeques, family reunions, warm weather, and of course, baseball. One of my favorite things about summer is the outdoor concerts, festivals, and parades. The editors of MSN have composed a list of must see attractions for the summer. Choices include spending an evening at New York Central…
For several years, I made my own beer at a storefront in my little suburban town. Every other month, I’d get together with my buddies, AKA the “Brews Brothers,” and create a few batches from scratch. I was in heaven. Now, you can have the same experience with wine at Crushpad. Here, you can choose…
The 94th annual Bay to Breakers Race is this Sunday, May 21, starting at 8 am downtown. This 7.8-mile trek begins a few blocks from San Francisco Bay near the Ferry Building, goes up Howard Street, cuts across 9th, crosses Market, then climbs up the Horrendous Hayes Street Hill (where I once saw a man…
For 40 years, Pinor Noir vines have thrived in Oregon’s distinctive Willamette Valley winegrowing region, becoming one of the world’s most respected sources of these wines. Today, there are more than 300 wineries utilizing over 14,000 acres of vineyards, producing over 1.6 million cases annually of a handful of wines. But Pinot Noir is their…
I once did a scuba dive off the shores of eastern Florida, to see a Rolls Royce Silver Cloud that had been sunk with much Palm Beach panache to become an artificial reef. But it looked like any other rusted car and could have just as well been a Chevy or a Ford. Now, the…