The stately Georgian Room at Seattle's venerable Fairmont Olympic Hotel has been given a new coat of lemon-yellow along with a new GM and--fresh from New York's Le Bernardin and Bellevue's Seastar--the expert, Austrian-born sommelier Joseph Linder.
At lunch last week, a smokey, plank-roasted filet of salmon, accompanied by a superb white Burgundy, the Clos des Mouches from Drouhin. Ahhh.
Posted by Ronald Holden at August 22, 2004 1:43 PM
French Chef Sally is my friend Sally McArthur, who hosts luxurious,
week-long cooking classes at the Chateau du Riveau in the Loire Valley.
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