Tag: Saipin Chutima

James Beard Foundation Awards 2010

Rather than regale you with the wry, sardonic and and semi-cynical prose for which he known, ELV thought he’d just let these snaps of Monday night’s James Beard Foundation Award ceremony and reception speak for themselves….mainly because he can’t think of anything wry, sardonic or cynical to say about the event.

More tasty snaps of his adventures in New York City will be forthcoming, if and when he can squeeze in some posting in between his gallivanting about Vegas Uncork’d for the next four days.

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LOTUS OF SIAM is Ready for Its Closeup

The renovations took two months longer than expected, and the wine bar won’t be fully operational for another two weeks, but here is your first look at the new, improved and expanded Lotus of Siam.

It will be, by far, the classiest digs in all of Commercial Center, but Saipin Chutima assures us not a darn thing’s gonna change on the menu…and America’s best German wine list promises to just keep getting better and better.

Expect the wine bar to be packed with industry and non-industry oenophiles from the day it opens.