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...contest was as strictly controlled as the production of a Chateau Lafite. The nine French judges, drawn from an oenophile's Who's Who, included such high priests as Pierre Tari, secretary-general of the Association des Grands Cms Classes, and Raymond Oliver, owner of Le Grand Vefour restaurant and doyen of French culinary writers. The wines tasted were transatlantic cousins-four white Burgundies against six California Pinot Chardonnays and four Grands Crus Chateaux reds from Bordeaux against six California Cabernet Sauvignons...
...Tour d'Argent is one of only four Parisian restaurants that consistently earn three stars-the highest rating-from the Guide Michelin, France's arbiter of gastronomy. The others: Maxim's, Las-serre and Le Grand Vefour...
Ineffable Light. Since Moses & Co. enigmatically disclosed six weeks ago that the Guide would incorporate "a big decision about one Paris restaurant," culinary Cassandras have been predicting disaster for one of the capital's Big Four: Maxim's, Lapérouse, Grand Vefour, Tour d'Argent (which was demoted to ** in 1952, restored in 1954). Last week, within minutes of the Guide's release, gastronomes learned that, instead, Michelin had pinned a third star on Lasserre, an epicurean pavilion off the Champs-Elysées. Among its celebrated specialties: Sole fourrée Bagatelle ($2.20), breaded...
Their great, last-fling romance is unintentionally amusing since the high spots all seem to be haute couture and haute cuisine. She orders a batch of gowns from Balenciaga. He orders Dom Perignon 1934 and Chateau Lafite 1937 and takes her to dinner at Le Grand Vefour in Paris and other three-star restaurants in the Guide Michelin. When they look up from the menus, the lovers philosophize, ques-tion-and-answer fashion. She: "What are we, the bulls or the matadors?" He: "Always the bulls. But we think we're the matadors." As the lovers' time together...
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