 Six Peaks Grille at the Resort at Squaw Creek, located in Olympic Valley, California offers a fine dining experience where Chef de Cuisine Chad Shrewsbury creates innovative cuisine and the culinary focus is on steaks, sustainable, biodynamic produce, and seafood.
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 Rocker at Squaw located in The Village at Squaw Valley, in Olympic Valley, California was the perfect break after a well-spent morning skiing with Olympic Gold Medalist Jonny Moseley at Squaw Valley.
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 Village Bistro in Tannersville, New York, is a charming, intimate restaurant owned by Chef Edward Lanzinger and Shake Kertoyan. The restaurant is a lovely surprise in the Catskill Mountains, where the portions are plentiful and the service is welcoming and inviting.
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 Arnaud's restaurant located in the heart of the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana has been a fine dining tradition since 1918, and has excellent Creole food, old-world elegance, charm, ambience, and impeccable service by tuxedoed waiters who add to the family-owned restaurant's mystique. The talented Chef de Cuisine Tommy Digiovanni focuses on classic French and innovative Creole dishes.
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 The award-winning restaurant Commander's Palace, located in the Garden District of New Orleans, Louisiana, and steps away from the historic St. Charles Avenue Streetcar line, has been a grande dame of New Orleans fine dining since 1880. Enter the landmark turquoise and white Victorian building and you feel like you are entering another time. Executive Chef Tory McPhail is the creative talent in the kitchen who enjoys keeping things fresh.
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 In a city of great restaurants, Coquette Bistro Wine Bar, located in the historic Garden District of New Orleans, Louisiana, owned by Chef Michael Stoltzfus and Lillian Hubbard, is a hidden gem. Although it has a French-sounding name, Chef Michael Stoltzfus focuses on American-style cuisine that is ever evolving. Housed in a late 1880s two-story building, the restaurant is gorgeous with its historic bar, high ceilings, wood floors, exposed brick walls and extensive art collection; it is a restaurant that once you find it, you want to keep returning.
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 Café Adelaide at the Loews New Orleans Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, was named for Adelaide Brennan, a vivacious redhead known to her family as Queenie, and to her nieces and nephews as ‘Auntie Mame and then some." The attractive contemporary ambience restaurant features the talented Chef Chris Lusk in the kitchen whose culinary focus is described as "Boosted New Orleans Bistro."
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 L'Astral Bar-Restaurant Rotatif at the Loews Hôtel Le Concorde Québec, in Canada is a delicious dining adventure in the sky where Executive Chef Jean-Claude Crouzet and Sous Chef Pierre-Laurence Valton-Simard tempt your palate to complement the 360-degree panoramic views from the revolving restaurant located 600 feet above sea level.
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 The Supper
Room at Glenmere Mansion is an elegant restaurant located in Chester, New York
(less than 50 miles from New York City)
where Executive Chef Rob Stella and Executive Pastry Chef Taiesha Martin are the talents in the kitchen complemented
by Sommelier Michael A. Cimino. Housed in Glenmere, a luxurious 18-room and suite Relais & Chateaux Country House Hotel, The Supper Room
will enchant you with innovative cuisine and impeccable service.
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 We had an elegant dinner at
the fine dining French restaurant, Aux
Truffes Restaurant, in Mont-Tremblant, Canada awarded Four
Diamonds by the AAA/CAA every year since 1998. Located in the Pedestrian Village, Chef Owner Martin
Faucher focuses on creating innovative fine cuisine using the best
local ingredients in season, and is renowned for his duck foie gras and
truffles.
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 Eating at Crêperie
Catherine in Mont-Tremblant, Canada in the
heart of the Pedestrian
Village is like
having a delicious meal at the home of a good friend. Located in a small
chalet, the ambience is comfortable and inviting, and watching and chatting
with Chef Catherine Schmuck and her sister, Lorraine
Schmuck as they create the homemade crêpes is an added
bonus.
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 75 Main Restaurant
Lounge Club, located in Southampton, Long Island, New York
opened in June 2010, and is already making a name for itself as a Hampton hot spot under the
guidance of Owner Zach Erdem. An attractive restaurant,
an inviting ambience, Executive Chef Matthew L. Lewis in
the kitchen, an excellent wine list, and a professional and attentive staff
make 75 Main Restaurant Lounge Club a new darling.
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 Damascus is a mix of old
world charm set against a cosmopolitan city, and the gastronomy at the La
Veranda restaurant at Beit Zafran Hotel de
Charme, located in Damascus,
Syria, mirrors this mix, where Chef Sewar al Bittar blends Syrian specialties
with new world flair.
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 The restaurant Qsine,
located onboard the luxury Celebrity Cruises - Eclipse cruise
ship, is a play on the word, cuisine, which clearly defines its focus
on being "uniquely unordinary." Chef Jacques Van Staden is the
man behind the innovation of menus presented on iPads, where wait staff are
"Culinary Tour Guides", Sommeliers are "Grape Connoisseurs," and innovative
food presentations are all part of the delectable culinary experience.
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 The Tuscan Grille
located onboard the luxury Celebrity Cruises - Eclipse cruise
ship is a harmonious blend of steakhouse and Italian favorites.
Excellent cuisine and professional and attentive service made for a delicious
evening of dining.
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 Syria is a melting pot of many different cultures and the Al Manara restaurant at the Afamia Rotana Latakia,
located in Latakia, Syria,
is the perfect
place to dine and experience an international fusion of cuisine with
themed
nightly menus to tantalize your palate.
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 It is not every day that one has the opportunity to dine in
a 300-year old mansion, which is why I especially enjoyed my lunch at
the
restaurant Kaser Al Wali (Castle of the
Governor)
in Aleppo,
Syria,
that was once the home of the Governor of Aleppo.
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 Dining at The
Silk Road at the Sheraton
Aleppo
Hotel in Aleppo, Syria sets the tenor for
a Mediterranean experience featuring Aleppine regional dishes, as well
as Oriental
and international cuisine to appeal to the palates of its guests.
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 Ibiza
Restaurant is a
sleeper of a Spanish
restaurant located on High Street in the heart of
downtown New Haven,
Connecticut where Executive
Chef Manuel Romero is the creative talent in the kitchen.
Nestled
amongst Yale University
buildings, the restaurant has vibrant energy and style. Combined with an
excellent
wine list, and attentive professional wait staff, Ibiza Restaurant is a
winner
on the New Haven wine and dine scene.
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 The Giraffe Room Lounge and
Restaurant located
at the Inn at Great Neck in Great
Neck, New York, has whimsical giraffe
sculptures and an
impressive, vibrant collection of Art Deco paintings that set the
ambience for
the intimate restaurant where Chef Naim Bellan focuses on
international cuisine.
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 Bucks
County, Pennsylvania is a treasure trove of historical
properties,
and the Logan Inn,
located
in the village of
New Hope
has proudly upheld the tradition of hospitality since it opened as a
tavern in
1722. Chef/Owner Pete Gialias continues the tradition of
hospitality with his approach of using the freshest of ingredients at
the
restaurant.
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 The Marsha
Brown Creole Kitchen and Lounge brings a delicious taste of
Creole
New Orleans to New Hope in
Bucks County,
Pennsylvania.
Caleb Lentchner, the General Manager and Chef, is in
charge of
the kitchen, which uses many of Marsha Brown's Louisiana family recipes.
Located in a
former Methodist church, the restaurant is a unique dining experience.
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 The Bridgetown Mill
House
in Bucks County
in Langhorne, Pennsylvania was built as a
private
mansion in 1791. In 1998, this stunning Federal style building was
transformed
into a tiny luxury inn, and in 2003, the owners added an elegant fine
dining
restaurant.
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 A memorable evening of romance and fine dining at the
award-winning Restaurant
JEAN-LOUIS in Greenwich, Connecticut owned by Chef
Jean-Louis Gerin and his charming wife Linda, had me
fondly
recalling memories of Paris. Since 1985, Restaurant JEAN-LOUIS
has
focused on the art and style of French cuisine with the perfect dash of
intimate ambience and attentive yet unobtrusive service; located only 37
minutes from New York City, it is well worth the drive.
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 Located in the heart of historic Bowen's Wharf, Fluke Wine, Bar & Kitchen in Newport, Rhode
Island focuses on relaxed modern American
cuisine. The restaurant, owned by the personable Jeff and Geremie
Callaghan, features the talented Chef Neil Manacle in the kitchen,
an inspired cocktail menu, and fresh farm, and ocean to table cuisine.
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