After 18 years, Balzac Wine Bar, the cozy wine bar and restaurant at 1716 N. Arlington Place, will close Nov. 22. Balzac opened in 2005, offering east-side residents and visitors sharable plates for ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. + Sydney's Eau de Vie has edged out three finalists from New York City to be named the World's Best New Cocktail Bar at the annual ...

“Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress” is not a movie I’ve seen before. A perfectly drawn love story, it’s set deep in the mountains of China during the cultural revolution of the early ’70s and ...

Bent on killing himself by throwing himself into the Seine after losing his shirt at the gaming tables, Raphael de Valentin, the romanticised, doomed young hero of Balzac's early novel, 'La Peau de ...