Marriott International (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I'm a frequent traveler and a long time Marriott hotel guest, dating back to 1974 when my very first office was inside the long demolished City Line Avenue Marriott in Philadelphia. So when I read that Marriott was rebranding I was all gooy inside, feeling nostalgic, thinking back to the … Read more
Image via CrunchBase Ever since some friends got me into the wine world I've been a BYOB type. Why? It's all about the collection baby. Once you assemble a wine collection, you don't just have it to look at. You want to enjoy and share it. Well, over at SNOOTH, one of the trendy, what's … Read more
I now know how famed Parisian, well actually worldwide, chef Guy Savoy felt when he earned his first every three stars and broke down and cried. I felt the same way this morning after former client and friend Ray Haddow of Nokia forwarded me a link to the first ever review of the 2009 Comunicano … Read more
Image via Wikipedia Last night I dropped by my local watering hole, that just happens to be one, if not the best restaurants in San Diego's North County area. Chef pal Jeffrey Strauss for many years has set the high water mark in the Del Mar, Solana Beach area and is widely regarded as the … Read more
Image by mohamedn via Flickr Since 1998, Ken Rutkowski and I have co-hosted KenRadio's World Technology Roundup, and while we've been missing for a few weeks due to Ken's travel and mine, I can't pass up this opportunity to wish him a Happy Birthday.
Recently my wife bought two bottles of Big House Red at Trader Joes in Sacramento. It was the most recent vintage, likely 2009 and they were in her words, "horrible" with the second bottle worse than the first. What I didn't realize was that Bonny Doon had in the past few years sold off the … Read more
Image via Wikipedia My trip down Languedoc lane continues with this nice nine year old St. Chinian red. As a fan of Mas Champart, it's nice to see other producers making wines of memorable quality from a region that's not very well known on the west coast and where we see so little diversity in … Read more
