[NOTE: This is Part Two of the Navarra, Spain Article featuring Restaurant Tubal posted on February 22, 2007.] Oozing boyish charm and patience, Chef Nicolás Jimenez sweetly smiled as he shook my hand and told me (after I had gone on for a good 10 minutes about how happy I was to meet him and…
All I knew about Navarra, Spain was that it is where Pamplona’s Fiestas de San Fermin, the annual “Running of the Bulls” is held. Then I heard that the American Institute of Wine & Food was flying in Nicolás Jimenez, from Tubal Restaurant to prepare two special wine pairing dinners, (one in NYC and one…
Mark your calendars for February 1. The American Insitute of Wine & Food (AIWF) in San Francisco is putting on a once-in-a-lifetime wine pairing dinner featuring some excellent wines from this wild and wooly area of Spain, as well as flying in one of the region’s top chefs, Nicolas Jimenez of Tubal Restaurant, to prepare…