SCHMOOZE\WELL-FED HORDE AT SPAGO LETS ZAGAT BE THEIR GUIDE.Byline: Larry Lipson Daily News Restaurant Writer What: Tim and Nina Zagat, publishers of the nation's best-selling "Zagat Survey" restaurant guides are in town briefly as part of a promotional tour. Where: Spago restaurant in West Hollywood. Menu: The Zagats and three tables of food press and survey winners began with Billecart-Salmon brut bubbly and such tidbits TidBITS is an award-winning electronic newsletter and web site dealing primarily with Apple Computer and Macintosh-related topics. Internet publication TidBITS has been published weekly since April 16, 1990, which makes it one of the longest running Internet publications. as Spago pizzas topped with salmon and/or caviar, plus one with cheese and black truffles. Once seated, the Zagat party nibbled terrine ter·rine n. 1. An earthenware container for cooking and serving food. 2. Any of various dishes prepared or cooked in a terrine. [French; see tureen. of foe gras with mache (lamb's lettuce) and pear butter on grilled walnut bread and washed it down with an Alsatian gewurztraminer, 1993 Hengst, Domaine Zind Humbrecht. Then came lobster risotto ri·sot·to n. pl. ri·sot·tos A dish of rice cooked in broth, usually with saffron, and served with grated cheese. [Italian, from riso, rice, from Old Italian; see rice. with thin ginger crisps and asparagus and 1994 Alois Lageder, Alto Adige sauvignon blanc; roasted Sonoma lamb chops with black truffles and 1993 Andrew Murray syrah; a lemon grass lem·on·grass also lemon grass n. A tropical grass (Cymbopogon citratus) native to southern India and Sri Lanka, yielding an aromatic oil used as flavoring and in perfumery and medicine. Noun 1. souffle souffle /souf·fle/ (soo´f'l) a soft, blowing auscultatory sound. cardiac souffle any cardiac or vascular murmur of a blowing quality. with gingered blueberry blueberry, plant of the large genus Vaccinium, widely distributed shrubs (occasionally small trees) of the family Ericaceae (heath family), usually found on acid soil. They are often confused with the related huckleberry. compote and 1993 riesling, a Schloss Lieser Auslese; and chocolates, petits fours and coffees. The celebration: The current local Zagat restaurant survey is the 10th consecutive annual guide, and kudos were swapped by the Zagats and co-editors Karen Berk and Merrill Shindler. Also mentioned was the Zagats' new Los Angeles Marketplace Survey of food-related retailers released late last year. The plan: The Zagats are going global with a London survey in the works, Paris next, and eventually every major city in the world. CAPTION(S): PHOTO Photo Tim Zagat toasts friends, colleagues and others at Spago during a stop on the tour promoting the "Zagat Survey" guides he publishes with wife Nina. Tina Gerson/Daily News |
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