Paso Robles finally has its third place. 🍷

New on Cuisineist: Club 7970, the luxury social club that just opened in a modern barn on Vineyard Drive — Soho House polish meets supper club warmth, with rotating chefs, Hot Stove cooking classes, a piano bar, afternoon tea, an art gallery, and a curated wine list pouring local, national and international wines.

We`ve covered Paso for a decade — DAOU, the Allegretto, J Dusi at harvest — and this feels like the region growing into itself. Full story at the link in bio.

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Art lesson from my studio 🎨🌵 Art by Elaine Harris

Mixing greens for desert plants

After 10+ years teaching art, this is one I return to again and again: desert green is never just one green.

Look closely in "The Bird and the Bighorn Sheep" — bright leafy greens behind the bighorn, a pale silvery shrub in the center, and deeper greens in shadow, all against warm orange rock. That contrast makes the greens sing.

My simple mix: start with blue + yellow, add more yellow for sunlit leaves, cool it with a little blue or grey for sage and shadow, and mute it with a speck of its opposite, red-orange.

Try it on your next walk — count how many different greens you can actually see.

Originals and prints are available at artbyelaineharris.com

— Elaine

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D`Agostino`s Trattoria Celebrates a Grand First Year in Its Expanded Las Vegas Home 🍝

One year after its grand reopening, we look back at our night with Dan & Brandi Thompson — a family table that simply grew bigger.

Read it: https://cuisineist.com/2026/11/dagostinos-trattoria-celebrates-a-grand-first-year-in-its-expanded-las-vegas-home/

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Behind many grand Louisiana houses stood a little building where the sons slept — the garçonnière, the French word for a bachelor`s quarters. 🌿

We`ve walked past them at Houmas House and along River Road for years without knowing their story: the card games, the late hours, mothers watching the lamplight from across the yard, and those outside stairs so a son could come home after midnight without waking the house.

Our new piece is live on Cuisineist — link in bio. 🏠

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In the kitchen with a Michelin star ⭐️🇨🇭 We spent a whole day cooking with Chef Yannick Crepaux at LeMontBlanc, LeCrans — aprons on for his table d`hôtes, a savory brioche French toast crowned with shaved truffles, a tasting with his sommelier, then a five-hour dinner as the snow fell. Now the 2026 MICHELIN Guide is out: Crepaux keeps his star, and so does Franck Reynaud at L`Ours, where he joined us at our table. Edo holds its Bib Gourmand, and Le Partage, FIVE, Le Bistrot des Ours and Byakko are recommended. Full story on cuisineist.com — link in bio. @cransmontana @natjaorg https://cuisineist.com/2026/11/in-the-kitchen-with-a-michelin-star-our-day-cooking-with-chef-yannick-crepaux-in-crans-montana-and-the-2026-stars-are-in/

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Three hours early, on purpose. ✈️🥂 Our travel days begin at the Centurion Lounge — bags down, a proper drink, a real meal — at LAS, LAX, SFO and wherever in the world we are. Now @americanexpress is building its biggest lounge ever: 30,000+ square feet at Newark Liberty in 2027, plus Heathrow, Philadelphia and Houston expansions. Our ritual, and what`s coming — link in bio / cuisineist.com. @natjaorg

📸 Centurion Lounge, JFK Terminal 4, by ajay_suresh (CC BY 4.0)

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