Kendall-Jackson Wine Estate and Garden in Fulton is a culinary center, tasting estate and an organic garden that highlights the famed wines that have been the gateway Chardonnay to many an oenophile.
In a wry bit of understatement, Kluge has named the Estate's culinary center the "Farm Shop": In reality, it's an elegantly stocked Parisian-style food hall that has surprisingly materialized in the heart of Virginia hunt country.
An intimate tasting room serves produce from the estate's extensive culinary gardens and Executive Chef Justin Wangler's food and wine pairings highlight the fact that "KJ" does not just mean big, oaky Chardonnays (although they have those, too).
All that architectural touring and artistic strolling left me famished, so I took a 10-minute drive in search of a culinary respite at the Mission Estate Winery in the Taradale Hills above Napier.
The grid is given a more sinister spin in Ellen Paul's assemblage "Meal Estate," which uses the culinary pun to comment wryly on the way housing development consumes the natural environment.
But this is Brooklyn, not New Orleans; that Big Easy feeling is a testament to the culinary prowess of Claire Wood, a real estate lawyer in Clinton Hill, and Gabrielle Smith, a project manager from Montclair, N.J.
The Labor Department filed a civil lawsuit against him in 1977 to recover $24.9 million lent by the culinary workers' fund for two real estate developments run by Mr. Shenker and Mr. Kahn.
In 1984, the business closed its doors, and Ms. Morton took a job outside of the culinary industry as an administrative assistant in commercial real estate to support her family.
Besides their culinary options, all three offer a lesson in New York restaurant real estate: it pays to know your audience.
After young families, attracted to the neighborhood's tiny Victorian homes and narrow, walkable streets, created a real estate boom a few years ago, others built on the culinary foundation that had helped spark the turnaround.
