When El Bulli closed its doors in 2011, fans of Spanish techno-emotional cuisine may well have mourned the passing of a great, but there was a ready-made replacement waiting in the wings in the form of Quique Dacosta. Tweezers in hand, the Extremaduran chef behind this eponymous restaurant has been changing perceptions of the Costa [...]
While Thomas Keller’s French Laundry in California will always hold a special place in the history of American (and even global) cuisine, its sister restaurant in New York certainly doesn’t live in the shadow of its elder sibling. Per Se, whose kitchen is headed up day-to-day by chef de cuisine Eli Kaimeh, has three Michelin [...]
Set in a former house in São Paulo’s leafy Jardim Paulistano suburb, Maní is immediately welcoming with its outdoor patio centred on a beautiful tree. Large wooden front doors open on to a long, white corridor decorated with contemporary art, where diners can enjoy close-up views of husband-and-wife team Daniel Redondo and Helena Rizzo’s kitchen. [...]
With both the Pacific Ocean and the Andes at his fingertips, the terroir of Chile is a culinary playground for Rodolfo Guzmán, who actively sources ingredients the ample length and narrow breadth of his unique homeland. With a focus on unearthing native species, this voyage of discovery takes the chef – who trained with both [...]
Tickets may have been open a few years now, but it still feels like the future of top-end gastronomic dining. A sense of fun pervades every facet of this cinema-themed operation, from the door staff’s eccentric uniforms to the ice-cream cart’s bell that signals the end of the savoury phase of the meal. The chefs [...]
Nikkei food is the Peruvian-Japanese cultural blend that has emerged from more than 100 years of Japanese immigration into Peru. The Miraflores restaurant Maido is widely regarded as the place to find the finest execution of the cuisine, led by its leading proponent: twinkly-eyed Lima-born chef Mitsuharu Tsumura. Tsumura studied in the US and trained [...]
There’s a refreshing lack of fuss or pretension at this stripped-back restaurant in Copenhagen’s foodie Nørrebro district. Diners help themselves to cutlery from drawers in the simple wooden tables and pour their own wine, while the menu is a straight choice between four or seven courses. Set up in 2010 by Christian Puglisi and Kim [...]
Restaurant André celebrates its fifth birthday in 2015, making it a mere youngster in the elite gastronomic sphere, where it can take restaurants a decade just to establish themselves and find their true identity. And yet this leading fine dining establishment in Singapore, led by chef-owner André Chiang, is already admired and respected around the [...]
No one can accuse Alain Ducasse, arguably the most successful chef on the planet, of resting on his laurels. His flagship Paris restaurant has been entirely reinvented, reopening last autumn with a sparkling new dining room and radically revised menu – and a fundamentally different approach. The restaurant interior – by Patrick Jouin and Sanjit [...]
Experience a journey of the senses in a fairytale castle - It’s hard to imagine a more romantic setting for dinner than this castle in the Swiss Alps where the stunning mountain views are matched by the exquisite cooking of Andreas Caminada. The Swiss chef honed his skills at fine dining destinations such as Wirtschaft [...]
