Please The Palate Pick of the Week: Pebble Beach Food & Wine and Dinner with Champagne Billecart-Salmon and Chef Alain Passard

Written by Allison Levine on April 20, 2019

Lifestyle Food Wine

If there is one event I look forward to each year, it is Pebble Beach Food & Wine. The wines, the food and the people, set among the beauty of Pebble Beach, makes for a spectacular weekend. There are seminars, lunches and dinners featuring wines and chefs that you might have thought could only happen in a dream. And this year was no exception.

Almost one year ago to the date (April 10 2018), I was honored to be invited to a magical dinner at the Waldorf Astoria in Beverly Hills to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Champagne Billecart-Salmon. The dinner was prepared by three-star Michelin Chef Alain Passard of l’Arpege restaurant in Paris, as well as two-star Michelin Chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten. One year later (April 13, 2019), at Pebble Beach Food and Wine, I was again invited to dinner with Champagne Billecart-Salmon for a Decadent evening wit h Chef Alain Passard. Not once, but twice I had an exquisite meal and that is why Pebble Beach Food & Wine and Dinner with Champagne Billecart-Salmon is the Please the Palate pick of the week. Read More +

Please The Palate Pick of the Week: 49 Boxes at Black Rabbit Rose in Hollywood

Written by Allison Levine on April 13, 2019

Lifestyle

Storytelling, mysteries, puzzles, art and magic. If this intrigues you, then you will understand why 49 Boxes at the Black Rabbit Rose in Hollywood is the Please The Palate pick of the week. 49 Boxes is running from April 14 through May 26 in Los Angeles and I had the privilege to attend a media preview for a fully magical evening.

Taking up residence in Black Rabbit Rose in Hollywood, we entered the vintage-adorned bar. Large tables of eight filled the room and on each table were a number of wooden boxes of all shapes and sizes.

At the front of the room is a display of artifacts, as well as a large box with 19 padlocks. We took our seats at the tables, forming groups that we would be working with to solve the mysteries. Read More +

Please The Palate Pick of the Week: Matcha on-the-go with David’s Tea Matcha Maker

Written by Allison Levine on April 6, 2019

Lifestyle Food

With hectic days filled with non-stop work, I have to remind myself to take a deep breath regularly. Stretching classes are part of my weekly routine to help keep me centered and focused. So, when I was invited to a morning yoga and meditation class followed by a matcha tea tasting, I could not say no. Not even morning traffic would stop me as I traveled across the city to Wanderlust Hollywood for a morning of meditation and matcha. Before and after class, I enjoyed a variety of matchas from the new matcha collection from David’s Tea, all served in David’s Tea Matcha Maker. This handy, portable matcha maker let’s you make matcha on-the-go and is the Please The Palate Pick of the Week.