What was spectacular about the event that it was not simply a lunch in the main dining room, but in the private cellar where presidents such as Richard Nixon and movie stars such as Liz Taylor kept their private bottles in decades past. Guests at the 21 Club. Did you know that the U.S. Over 20 million bottles were shipped to the U.S. MORE >>

Gary Grunner, National Sales-Brand Manager of Cantina di Soave, invited me on a recent Sunday afternoon, to Il Poeta , one of the finest new Italian restaurants in Queens, New York. Fine dining and exceptional service is what you can expect when you visit there. MORE >>

What's on David Burke's fine-dining menu? From The Wall Street Journal by Katy McLaughlin "On one menu, he crossed out prices of wine and listed new prices with the term "sale" -- a rarely seen word in fancy restaurants." Consider: His restaurants are mainly in hard-hit areas including Manhattan's Upper East Side and Las Vegas. MORE >>

group of 6 guys sat at a large table loudly enjoying themselves, a suave looking middle-aged man dined alone, enjoying a half bottle of white with his first course and then a half of red with his main dish, and a handsome middle-aged blond woman sat at the table closest to the fire with her yellow lab for company. MORE >>