The Hotel at Portmeirion has kicked up its culinary offering a few notches with an ambitious tasting menu using the finest local produce.
Then Walter Paepcke, the president of the Container Corporation of America in Chicago and a man of ambitious tastes, began hatching grand plans with his wife, Elizabeth, to reinvent Aspen.
Jacques Torres offers big bars of chocolate from Ghana, Peru and Costa Rica for $5. Pralus, the French chocolate maker known for its intensely aromatic chocolate, offers an ambitious tasting stack of 10 single-origin wafers, each a little smaller than a matchbook.
Bedell's ambitious 2009 Taste Red ($35) showed Mr. Olsen-Harbich's masterly touch with its blend of merlot, syrah, cabernet sauvignon, cabernet franc and petit verdot.
Now it's served every night but Tuesday, when the Craft empire's august paterfamilias, Tom Colicchio, may be using the space and stage-set kitchen here to prepare ambitious, expensive tasting menus under the rubric Tom: Tuesday Dinner.
Even Washington's courtship of Martha is overly idealized, treated as love at first sight, though it must have been no negligible fact to an ambitious man whose taste ran to the finery on display that he was wooing perhaps the wealthiest widow in Virginia; he also might have, as some historians believe, actually fallen in love with a friend's wife.
Clos Thalès Côtes Catalanes VdP, $45, ** Clos du Pêcher 2007 Ultra-fruity and powerful, with lots of oak and tannins; tastes ambitious.
The pared-down version looks like a long, narrow New York loft with one wall in red brick and an open kitchen in the back; the other, more upscale version with a more ambitious (and expensive) tasting menu, sits in what was once a traditional Parisian bistro.
She's more ambitious in her cultural tastes: she sees nearly every American movie, and she loves TV.
But their ambitious leader, Gamal Abdel Nasser, gained a taste for power.
