Grilling without a Grill

Grilled Monkfish with bay leaves

  Grilling without a grill. How can that be possible? It’s simple, because everyone loves the flavor of grilled foods, but we don’t all have the luxury of a back courtyard or a porch, a front garden or even a side alleyway where a grill can sit year-round. So, the following recipe for Bay Grilled […]

Table Restaurant in Paris

What are the ingredients that go into making an esthete? I think Bruno Verjus, chef and owner of Table restaurant in Paris, probably has the answer to that, because he is one. His restaurant is achingly contemporary yet intensely warm and personal, much like the home of someone who loves to live there. Everywhere you […]

Poems on Plates

Sa Qua Na is a two-star restaurant in Honfleur, tucked on Place Hamelin among tourist shops, cafés, and restaurants serving moules-frites. The façade is discreet, the window shades hung at different heights as though someone got distracted in the midst of pulling them up. Peering in the window, the restaurant looks dark, closed. Once inside, […]