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Discover the art of eating better, traveling wiser, & drinking smarter.

Hello! We’re Marc and Pamela, a chef and sommelier duo. We’ve spent a lifetime discovering great wines, innovative food, benchmark restaurants, bucket list resorts and entertaining bars. We created this website to inspire you to explore new horizons and to help you eat better, drink smarter, and travel wiser. We believe leisure is an art, so grab a libation and get ready to make the world your comfort zone.

Marc
MarcChef, Co-Founder & Storyteller
Committed to celebrating hospitality with pride, Marc Hinton is a chef, freelance writer and editor-at-large for the online wine publication Enobytes.com and the author of “A History of Pacific Northwest Cuisine: From Mastodons to Molecular Gastronomy.”

Marc is a regular contributor at Portland Interview Magazine, and Travel Ideas by Flight Center and is often quoted by news outlets like the San Jose Mercury News, Tacoma News Tribune and the Washington Post. He has also appeared on Portland’s “Vine Time” on News Radio 750 KXL and on California’s Central Coast “From the Growing of the Grape to the Glass” on KUHL-AM 1410. Follow Marc on OregonLive.com with his unique and engaging Wine Bytes© column in his relentless quest for finding the ultimate food and wine experience.

Pamela
PamelaVP, Design & Operations
As a food & beverage consultant, Pamela provides restaurant operation efficiencies to improve profitability and personalization. When she’s not consulting, she is on a mission to share the best food and wine across the globe.

Her designs, photos and writings appear in print and online, including the Los Angeles Times, National Public Radio, The Harvard Gazette, Vegetarian Times, Portland Monthly Magazine, The Sommelier Journal, The Oregonian, Wine Bytes©, U.C. Berkeley Astrobiology News, the Washington Post, Saveur Magazine, The Associated Press and USA Today. At 28, she was America’s youngest female to judge the San Francisco International Wine Competition and continues to judge the San Francisco Chronicle and Boston Wine Competition.

Enobytes (“Eno” – short for Enology: a science that deals with wine and wine making, and “bytes”, a unit of digital information) has been around since 1997, making it one of the internet’s oldest wine blogs in the United States, and certainly the first in Oregon. Back then, we worked in the hospitality industry and provided consulting services for the restaurant industry on the West Coast. Since then, we’ve evolved.  In 2001, the domain name was established, and the online version of Enobytes.com emerged as the business expanded their services to educate and share their passion and knowledge of wine and food with their readers across the globe. Today, we’ve helped 12 million people across the globe discover the art of eating better, traveling wiser, and drinking smarter.

Enobytes vision is simple: We’re here to inspire you to explore new horizons and to help you eat better, drink smarter, and travel wiser. We believe leisure is an art, so grab a libation and get ready to make the world your comfort zone.

We’ve appeared in a number of different outlets, including the Los Angeles Times, National Public Radio (NPR), The Harvard Gazette, Vegetarian Times, AboutFace Magazine, The Sommelier Journal, VIV Magazine, The Oregonian, U.C. Berkeley Astrobiology News, Serious Eats, the Washington Post, Saveur Magazine, The Associated Press, USA Today, the San Jose Mercury News, Tacoma News Tribune, the Washington Post, Portland’s “Vine Time” on News Radio 750 KXL and California’s Central Coast “From the Growing of the Grape to the Glass” on KUHL-AM 1410. For additional insight, visit our media kit.

Your stories have inspired us to get out of our comfort zone and travel to Spain. Thanks for the great recommendations on where to wine and dine! We followed your itinerary and visited Peñafiel, La Rioja and Castelldefels and had a great time. We’re looking forward to your next story, and will always be longtime subscribers.
Lauren and Ben
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