Azurmendi – Bizkaia
It’s impossible to discuss Azurmendi without mentioning the ultrasound. Employed to alter the texture of food, this is just one of the cutting-edge techniques that chef Eneko Atxa has pioneered since his first restaurant opened [...]
The Ledbury – London
Originally from Newcastle in Australia, Chef Brett Graham trained with British stalwart Phil Howard at The Square before opening The Ledbury in the west London suburb of Notting Hill in 2005. The airy restaurant is [...]
Le Chateaubriand – Paris
A former stonemason and gardener, whose family hails from the Basque country, Inaki Aizpitarte seems an unlikely candidate to spearhead a mini-revolution in the Parisian restaurant scene. The chef opened Le Chateaubriand in 2006 and [...]
Nahm – Bangkok
At Nahm, Thai culinary tradition overrides the affectations of swanky top-level dining. The Metropolitan Hotel by Como may be plush in the extreme, but the cooking here is rustic, gutsy and entirely free of pomp. [...]
White Rabbit – Moscow
Heading a new wave of Russian chefs that is embracing the vast country’s amazing natural produce, chef Vladimir Mukhin claims to have borscht running in his veins. The famous beetroot soup certainly flows at his [...]
Ultraviolet by Paul Paired – Shanghai
A visit to Ultraviolet is a surreal experience: part glamorous James Bond lair, part mind-bending psychedelic trip. Guests meet at chef Paul Pairet’s central Shanghai restaurant, Mr & Mrs Bund, to be driven by minibus [...]
Fäviken: Järpen
Billed as the world’s most isolated restaurant, Fäviken, in the north of Sweden, has captured the imagination of the world’s media and intrepid foodies in equal measure. Housed in an 18th century barn on a [...]
Alinea: Chicago IL
Grant Achatz’s famed Chicago restaurant is well known for its brave and unconventional approach to food, with dishes served in all manner of creative ways, but there’s more to Alinea then culinary pyrotechnics. As the [...]
Piazza Duomo: Alba
Famed the world over for its truffles and elegant wines, Alba is the foodie capital of Piedmont – a region that itself lays claim to being the gastronomic heartland of Italy – and is, therefore, [...]
The Test Kitchen: Cape Town
British-born Luke Dale-Roberts spent much of his career working across Europe and Asia before settling in his adopted home of South Africa. And his travels are certainly reflected in the food he serves at The [...]
Nihonryori RyuGin: Tokyo
Chef Seiji Yamamoto’s mission at his acclaimed restaurant in Tokyo’s Roppongi district is to convey the richness of Japan’s natural environment and its fluctuating seasons through a traditional kaiseki menu. The daily-changing selection of small [...]
Vendôme: Cologne
Joachim Wissler, a pioneer of new German cooking continues to push the boundaries. A leading light of the so-called ‘new German school’ of cooking, the highly respected Joachim Wissler breathes new life into traditional German [...]
Restaurant Frantzén: Stockholm
The reputation of Björn Frantzén’s restaurant has spread well beyond Sweden’s borders since opening in 2009, winning widespread praise for its modern Scandinavian cooking. Originally known as Frantzén/Lindeberg, it changed its name in 2013 when [...]
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 [...]
Amber: Hong Kong
Escape the clamour of Hong Kong’s Central district to relax on caramel leather sofas at Amber in an elegantly low-lit bar on the seventh floor of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel. Guests sip cocktails that give [...]
Quique Dacosta: Alicante
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 [...]
Per Se: New York
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 [...]
Maní: São Paulo
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 [...]
Boragó: Santiago
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 [...]
Tickets: Barcelona
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 [...]
Maido: Lima
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 [...]
Relae: Copenhagen
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 [...]
Restaurant André: Singapore
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 [...]
Alain Ducasse au Plaza Athénée: Paris
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 [...]
Schloss Schauenstein: Fürstenau
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 [...]
Blue Hill at Stone Barns: Tarrytown NY
Located at the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture – a working four-season farm and educational facility approximately 30 miles north of New York City – co-owner and executive chef Dan Barber’s goal is [...]
Dulce Patria: Mexico City
Critically acclaimed chef Martha Ortiz presents a kaleidoscope of colour and flavour. Chef Martha Ortiz's restaurant at the Las Alcobas hotel channels the spirit of artist Frida Kahlo with an avant-garde interior design that is [...]
Rafael: Lima
Explore the diverse culinary heritage of Peru. Rafael Osterling's eponymous restaurant, housed in a beautiful Art Deco townhouse in the chic Miraflores area, celebrates Peru's eclectic food culture. The menu draws on Peru's diverse culinary [...]
La Bourgogne: Punta del Este
Authentic French fare in a charming forest setting. Serving as holiday home to Latin America’s élite, the town of Punta del Este is the perfect spot for this French fine-dining restaurant, which serves authentic Burgundy [...]
Fasano: Sao Paulo
Italian tradition within an iconic São Paulo hotel Something of an institution in Brazil, Rogério Fasano’s vast hotel and restaurant group stretches as far as Uruguay’s stylish Punta del Este resort, but the eponymous restaurant [...]
Harry Sasson: Bogota
Housed in a mock-Tudor mansion, extended with a stunning glass and steel annexe, Harry Sasson’s eponymous restaurant is a polished jewel in Bogotá’s burgeoning food scene. One of the country’s most famous chefs with a [...]
Corazón de Tierra: Guadalupe Valley
Corazón de Tierra, meaning ‘Heart of the Land’ in Spanish, is the creation of young chef Diego Hernández, whose belief that the best flavours come from the healthiest, freshest food sparked the idea for the [...]
Amaranta: Toluca
Punchy flavours and a focus on pork characterise this Mexican outpost. An hour’s drive west from Mexico City, Amaranta should be on the hit list of anyone looking to experience progressive Mexican cooking. Chef Pablo [...]
Sepia: Sydney
If Australia can credit the meeting of Europe and Asia as one of the secrets of its culinary success, Martin Benn is certainly well placed to make the most of it. The British-born chef got [...]
The French Laundry: Yountville CA
After more than two decades in business, Thomas Keller’s The French Laundry has lost none of its appeal. The restaurant continues to attract food lovers from around the globe, who travel to Yountville in the [...]
El Celler de Can Roca: Girona
The collective genius of the Roca brothers is well documented. The holy trinity of head chef Joan’s thoughtful but original cooking, pastry chef Jordi’s imagination-defying desserts and sommelier Josep’s beautifully considered wine pairings already adds [...]
