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Clay at the Gardiner Museum is a quiet, polished pause in the middle of the city.

Full review is now live. 🔗 in bio. 🍽️✨
@clay.restaurant @gardinermuseum @fooddudes

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A few weeks ago, I included Claudio’s Ristorante in a pizza roundup story for Vancouver Sun and The Province pizza. Now, I circle back — Claudio’s deserves a couple of thumbs up for its pastas, too. The dough is made fresh daily with sensitivity and understanding of its sometimes fickle nature and transforms it into satisfying dishes like the single raviolo with truffle ricotta and egg yolk or trofie, a Ligurian pasta that’s rolled and rustically twisted — the pesto sauce on it was perfectly balanced. Cappalletti (hat-shaped) squid-ink pasta with a cream sauce, tagliatelle bolognese with pork shoulder, prosicutto, mortadella, precorino and grana padana — mwah!
The restaurant’s operated by the two sons of Claudio Magagnin who operated Pasta Amore in Burnaby until 2021.

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My column on Nero Tondo, which offers a great value $79 tasting menu where almost all ingredients are local and curated for quality. No lemon? They source local makrut, finger limes, calamansi. The tuna dishes are outstanding!

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🍕 @freshbrothers limited time Detroit style pizza 🤤 and I swear… this crust hits different. Thick, fluffy, crispy cheese edges? THE BEST 🤤 We tried the Motor City with the pepperoni cups and that drizzle of @mikeshothoney… sweet heat perfection. Pair it with the cheesy breadsticks and you’ve got the ultimate pizza night. 🍕🔥 Less

The new restaurant was fully booked, online at least, so I took my chances and called the place to see if there might be space for two, even at the bar. Much to my surprise, someone not only picked up the phone for a stranger, but went the extra step to check out the bar situation. That’s hospitality. Icing on the cake: The small plates @islarestaurant.dc —seafood fritters, curried goat, chocho slaw — are worth the journey. Less

@_sushi_guys_ is a true hidden gem! 💎🍣

This is EPISODE 6 of my series looking for the best sushi in the greater Boston area — and by sushi I mean nigiri and spicy tuna maki, the two categories you voted for.

Sushi Guys is a small, hidden spot on 📍Southie with a 4.8 average rating on my matrix — almost unheard of.

DOWNLOAD THE SUSHI MATRIX —> Link in bio
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This week, my @d_magazine colleagues and I threw dinners at both locations of @writtenbytheseasons to celebrate Dallas Veggie Week, our weeklong series about vegetarian and vegan cooking in Dallas, fresh produce, and the diversity of meatless dining in a city that is still falsely labeled "meat and potatoes." Written by the Seasons proved our point with a spectacular menu celebrating all kinds of veggies. Red kuri squash in a spicy curry; a marvelous beetroot carpaccio that won over at least two guests who thought they hated beets; roasted root veg (super tender turnips!) and terrific lentils; two dessert choices. (I attended both dinners so I tried em both. What a life.)

It was a joy to meet our readers and talk about dining out in Dallas - by the way, fewer than half our guests were vegetarian. The idea that everyone in this town WANTS steak every night is another myth, busted. We got to taste some dishes I'm hoping might appear on a WBTS menu soon. And we at D Mag got to test a format you might see more of next year. We're hoping 2026 will bring more sit-down dinner experiences for our readers. And heck, maybe Veggie Week will become Veggie Month. Less

A peek at Red & the Wolf, now open in Clawson, one of the 17 bars, restaurants and cafes that opened in Metro Detroit in October 2025. Pictured are not giant mozzarella sticks but incredible sous vide Szechuan spare ribs with a peppercorn/cinnamon/sugar dry rub that I won’t soon forget. Lots of vegan stuff here, too. Read the full list of this month’s openings and closings at Detroit News - link in bio 🐺🍖 @redandthewolfclawson #clawson #detroitrestaurants #newrestaurant #spareribs Less