Telos Delosil @ Gabriella

Telos Delosil @ Gabriella

gabriellainvol.jpgThe chef with the intriguing name has moved into the top slot at Gabriella, after a year getting to know the kitchen and clientele.

We sampled some of Delosil’s beautifully presented plates last night and came away smiling. Gorgeous beets, gemlike Dungeness crab involtini, and an astonishing plate of risotto laced with wild nettles and golden chanterelles.

To create the clever involtini appetizer (shown here), chef Delosil tucked fresh crab into curls of watermelon radish, (more…)

Joze Goes Persian – March 27

Persian New Year comes to India Joze restaurant on Sunday, March 27, 2011 from 4-8 PM with a special evening of Persian food, poetry, and dance. If you think chef Joseph Schultz does Thai and Indonesian cuisine brilliantlyl (and he does, oh he does), then you’re in for a big treat.

He has no rivals in wok’ing the middle eastern culinary landscape, and the upcoming, multi-course feast should prove gastronomically enchanting. Make reservations @ the India Joze website.

Pasta La Posta

Pasta La Posta

pasta.jpgOnce again proving that some pastas ARE better than others, the kitchen at La Posta wow’d us last night with this plate of succulent pappardelle verde laced with housemade sausage and braised wild nettles. Tangy, buttery, utterly delicious, it had the four of us vying for each tender slippery bite.

Molesky Show @ Winfield Gallery

Molesky Show @ Winfield Gallery

molesky.jpgStarting today, new oil paintings by David Molesky will be on view at Carmel’s chic Winfield Gallery — strategically located smack dab in the fashionable center of everybody’s favorite tourist town-by-the-sea.

Dolores between Ocean & 7th – Mon-Sat, 11-5 and Sundays 12-5.

Just go and see. You’ll love these atmospheric paintings by romantic realist Molesky.

Pinots and more pinots!

Pinots and more pinots!

Just in case you think that wine tasting is a piece of cake, check out this sea of stemware—and pinot.jpgthis is only partial snapshot—up at the historic Burrell Schoolhouse, yesterday, where a few dozen of us worked through four flights of Santa Cruz Mountain pinot noirs for ranking at this year’s Pinot Paradise.

(That’s Hallcrest’s John Schumacher at far left and Big Basin’s Bradley Brown right, front.)