Always Up For An Anniversary… A quick peruse of this website will reveal that the Insider is always up for a great meal, party or anniversary. So when I got an invite in my email to celebrate a Vancouver landmark restaurant, CinCin’s 30th anniversary with a terrific 3 courses for $30 offering I couldn’t walk [...]
20 Years and Counting... PERCY BRANDON Vintners Resort offers one of the more special places to stay and dine in Sonoma County. It has an in house spa, wine country tours and a fine dining restaurant in John Ash & Co. Considering all of the amenities Vintners offers, perhaps it's no surprise that its General [...]
Inspires Loyalty... Sommeliers are notorious for not staying with an establishment for no more than five years at the most. Even if they're wildly happy with a place, it just seems to be the nature of the beast that wine people move on. So it was a pleasant surprise when recently conversing with Elizabeth Cahill, [...]
From Ryan Gosling to Sandra Oh … Recently while scrolling thru my Esquire mag feed I came across a headline about actor Ryan Gosling when he was preparing for a role where he was supposed to be so suave and smooth that he had to know how to make an Old Fashioned for his on-screen [...]
Canlis Pivot & Evolves... If you ever visit Seattle, there are certain things that most people do... a visit to the Space Needle (the restaurant for a tourist place is actually pretty good), a stroll thru Pike Place Market with maybe a stop across the street at the original Starbucks. If you like rock n' [...]
A Pierson to Pearson message... A while ago the web gal and I did a tasting at the Robert Mondavi Winery and our pourer recommended a trip across the road for a tasting at Opus One. So we took him up on his recommendation and had a nice tasting on their patio. But before we [...]
Two of The Finest Words ... Happy hour. Aside from love you, are there two better words in the English language? I suppose you don’t need a specific hour to be happy, but there’s something about dropping into a bar or restaurant during happy hour and having a ball. Playwright Everything just lends itself to [...]
Aaron’s got you covered.. A total pro. It can mean a lot of things to different people, but for me, it’s always meant doing whatever it takes to get the result you want with bringing the people you like along with you. That’s why I was so impressed with Aaron Diaz, the GM of the [...]
Dinners, Burgers, Tastings .... SOBEWFF Well the 19th annual SOBEWFF festival recently wrapped up and what a blast it was. The festival just keeps getting better and better. Festival kicked off with a nice media reception cocktail party where I got to say hello to Lee Schrager the man who dreamed up the festival many [...]
A Man and A Vision ... One of the best food and wine festivals, the 19th annual SOBEWFF and Stag's Leap Wine Cellars 50th Anniversary Dinner is just around the corner, Feb 19th-23rd, so it was fun to catch up with the man who dreamed up the festival, Lee Schrager, nearly two decades ago. “You’re [...]
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