Attica: Melbourne
Brilliance can quietly manifest itself in the strangest places. Not that there’s anything wrong with this strip deep in the suburbs of southern Melbourne; it’s just that it’s more a place you might expect to [...]
Aqua: Wolfsburg
Locations for a world-class restaurant don’t come much more unlikely than a motoring theme park adjoining Volkswagen’s car factory, but that’s exactly where you’ll find Sven Elverfeld’s inimitable Aqua. In Wolfsburg, a somewhat bland modern [...]
Le Calandre: Rubano
The Alajmo brothers’ burgeoning dining group opened its first restaurant outside Italy last year in Paris, but standards remain stratospheric at the Paduan restaurant where one of the most intriguing stories in modern Italian gastronomy [...]
Quintonil: Mexico City
Mexican chef Jorge Vallejo’s star is certainly rising. Kicking off his career on cruise ships, he had a thorough training under Enrique Olvera in Mexico City and a brief stint at Noma with René Redzepi [...]
L’Astrance: Paris
Chef Pascal Barbot followed an interesting career path before opening his tiny Paris restaurant, which is widely fêted for redefining French fine dining. A five-year stint working under Alain Passard at L’Arpège in Paris was [...]
Biko: Mexico City
Chefs Mikel Alonso (French by birth but Basque-Mexican by heart) and Bruno Oteiza (from Spain's San Sebastián) fuse native Basque flavours with Mexico’s ingredients; mix in fellow Spaniard Gerard Bellver’s culinary techniques honed at El [...]
