NEW YORK – Restaurants in San Francisco, Cambridge, Mass., Chicago and Austin, Texas, are featured by Bon Appetit in the magazine’s annual September restaurant issue.

The restaurants appear on Bon Appetit’s list of 10 of the country’s best new restaurants, along with a recommended dish. They are:

_Bar Jules, San Francisco, lamb with preserved lemons

_No. 7, Brooklyn, N.Y., pumpkin-seed-crusted tofu

_Spring Hill, Seattle, black cod with fennel chowder

_Hungry Mother, Cambridge, Mass., cornmeal-crusted catfish

_Mado, Chicago, clam and calamari seafood stew

_Feast, Houston, braised beef with fresh pears and ginger

_Cakes & Ale, Decatur, Ga., citrus arancine (rice balls) with pecorino cheese

_Olivia, Austin, Texas, milk-braised pork shoulder

_Woodberry Kitchen, Baltimore, spiced pear flatbreads

_The Greenhouse Tavern, Cleveland, potato-crusted goat cheese tarts

NEW ORLEANS – The New Orleans house where Impressionist painter Edgar Degas lived for a time is hosting an exhibit about his sojourn, including a larger-than-painted reproduction of the most important work he did in the city.

The house, now known as the Degas House, was owned by relatives of the artist’s mother and dates to the early 1850s. Degas was 38 and not yet famous when he arrived in 1872 in New Orleans, the city of his mother’s birth, after service in the Franco-Prussian War. He remained in New Orleans for 4 1/2 months.

The exhibit includes reproductions of eight of the 18 paintings he made in New Orleans, some photos of his hosts, Degas and the house; reproductions of letters he wrote home during that time; and other information about his life and work.

The reproductions include “A Cotton Office in New Orleans,” which was the first work by Degas to be bought by a museum. His host family, the Mussons, were in the cotton business, and the scene depicted the office where they worked. The reproduction is about 40 inches across, almost four inches wider than the original, which is owned by the Musee des Beaux Arts in Pau, France.

For more information about Degas House, visit http://www.degashouse.com. The house, located at 2306 Esplanade Ave., offers tours and is also a bed and breakfast with rates beginning at $99.

HOOD RIVER, Ore. – The historic Columbia Gorge Hotel is expected to reopen in September, according to The Oregonian.

Nobody bid for the property during a foreclosure auction in July, leaving it in the hands of its mortgage holder, Shorebank Pacific.

ShoreBank, which set $4 million as the minimum bid, has retained North Pacific Management Inc. to run the hotel built by timber tycoon Simon Benson in 1921 as the “Waldorf of the West.”

The bank still hopes to find a buyer.

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