the mad innnkeeper ver 3.0 Santa Barbara Restaurants and more

Sweetheart Meal We arrived at Lupa in Greenwich Village late one Sunday afternoon. The sun was setting and a chill was sinking into the air like ink on paper.(more)

Ca Dario is a charming little Italian restaurant that has a wonderful wine list and great food. The carpaccio is a treat as are the lamb chops.
Ca Dario 37 W. Victoria Street Santa Barbara, CA 805 884 9419

	SB's latest sauve creation from the minds of David Cecchini and Leslie Tucker (both formely from Wine Cask). The atmosphere is top notch, great bar area and lovely outside patio. Formal dinning room experience. Food has been good to great. NU
NU 1129 State Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101 Telephone: 805.965.1500

OK...Finally someone has opened a hip, happening, big-city-like, pacific rim restaurant in SB. The decor is IT! The food, wonderful, and the hospitality top notch.
DISH 138 E. Canon Perdido Santa Barbara, CA 805 966 5365

The Top 50 Restaurants It is hard to imagine a task more difficult for food lovers than choosing the best restaurants in the United States. We sifted through hundreds of reports, ate thousands of meals, and traveled millions of miles.(more)

Zinfandel Muscles In on the Big Boys At the top of the wine world, where spitting is an art form, zinfandel has been alternately tolerated and scorned.(more)

Some city restaurants have an uncanny way of allowing themselves to be reinvented for each generation of diners (more)

SOMETIMES, the only thing worse than a bad location is a good location. Anyone who doubts that might consider the tortured history of Zitoune, a little restaurant perched on the edge of the meatpacking district and therefore destined, like so many others, to languish in the shadow of Pastis. (more)

	Come visit one of the best restaurants in Venice: Ristorante da Carletto

awesome cookbooks

	Saveur Cooks Authentic Italian

	Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home by Julia Child, Jacques Pepin

	The Paris Cookbook by Patricia Wells

	Chez Panisse Cafe Cookbook by Alice L. Waters

	Hungary (Culinaria) by Aniko Gergely