Potatoes déclinaison with white Alba truffles and egg yolk at 2 Michelin starred Dolder Grand hotel restaurant i Zurich. Brilliant dish.

The hardest to reserve restaurant in the world is not in Brooklyn, Barcelona and not even in Copenhagen. It’s in Tokyo and you’ve probably never heard of it before. I’ve been trying to get into Kawamura steakhouse without any success each time I went to Tokyo. And I am not…

Baked sea bass at the legnedary Club 55 beach restaurant in Saint Tropez.

I don’t think that 3 Michelin starred L’Arpège in Paris needs any introduction. The legendary master of vegetables Alain Passard has not only influenced many chefs around the world, but has also shown through his brilliant work that a simple onion or a cabbage are not just the “poor cousins” of…

I first came across Alexandre Gauthier last spring, at Opinionated About Dining 100 best European restaurants launch event, where together with some other new generation European chefs he cooked an “8 hands” meal at Saturne restaurant in Paris. The dish Alexander chose to serve was frog legs, one of the…

When my friend, who travels often to Singapore, mentioned that it has the best street food in the world, I didn’t realize to what extent it was true. So the first thing I did after arriving in Singapore was to go to Maxwell road hawker centre, one of many food…

Despite August being my least favourite time of eating raw fish in Japan, Harutaka sushi-ya was as outstanding as always.Harutaka Takahashi, who started his sushi chef career at the famous (or… infamous) Sukiyabashi Jiro, was especially generous this time. The snacks prior to sushi (otsumame) included abalone and three types…

Three months ago I asked a similar question after my visit toL’Ambroisie restaurant in Paris which despite being very classic and, for some, too old fashioned, is a brilliant embodiment of classic French cooking. La Grenouillere is the complete opposite of L’Ambroisie yet also represents the French gastronomy in a…

Before you ask me how I managed to get a reservation at Kawamura steakhouse in Tokyo – I didn’t. There are two Kawamuras which both happen to be in Ginza. The famous one where it’s almost impossible to get into as the chef gives priority to his regular customers (I…