A friend of mine forwarded a certain Wow confidential newsletter May 2009 that uses a picture of me and Joel Robuchon that was taken by my friend in NY in 2006. Dear Wow newsletter, I don’t mind that you use this image (although I don’t understand what I have in…

Steamed pork buns with hoisin, cucumbers and scallions from Momofuku SSam bar and Momofuku Noodle bar. I don’t have enough words to describe the brilliance of the combination of delicate steamed buns, juicy, but crispy at the same time pork, scallions, slices of cucumber and spicy hoisin sauce. On Tuesday I…

The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2009 (or here, if the link doesn’t work)list is out and once again it proves how subjective and irrelevant it is. (It does get huge exposure in the world’s media though, a great marketing trick by San Pellegrino?) One of the “new entries” is Le…

Dining in Aida was like travelling to Japan. The sober and discrete exterior and interior, warm but reserved (in a good way) service and delicious cooking with ingredients of the highest quality. It is also the only Japanese (teppanyaki) restaurant in Paris to have a Michelin star which makes reserving…

Umu is the idea of a restaurant that I dreamt of ever since I had that very intriguing, but maybe too authentic for Westerners eyes and taste buds meal in Kikunoi in Kyoto .”Could anybody recreate the Kyoto style kaiseki meal but with a modern touch in Europe? “, I…

Every person I spoke in London praised Hunan, “a Chinese “gem””, where there are no menus and you will “explode” of the amount of delicious food. And indeed, Hunan is “not your typical Chinese restaurant.” You don’t get any menu, and the waiter just asks how spicy you would like…

As I’ve posted last year, Milan is not only about shopping for designer bags and shoes, but also about delicious Italian food and certain Milanese style that you can’t find anywhere else. I don’t speak about the new rich sweeping away “Dolce” and “Giorgio” shops, but about the old Italy…

The most luxurious bistro? I know, it is crazy to call this two Michelin stars restaurant located in the sumptuous hotel particulier in the centre of Paris, “a bistro”. But since the post by Food Snob, I couldn’t but be more and more convinced that many creations of Jean-Pierre Vigato…

I know paella is not the speciality of Catalonia and no paella in Barcelona can compare to paella Valenciana, but the black squid ink paella in the very pleasant Botafumeiro ( El Gran de Gracia 81, 08012 Barcelona, tel.+34 93 218 42 30 ) was something special, higher than all…

This is not an “Opera” cake – it is an amuse-bouche of foie gras, eel and soy sauce jelly at Benkay. A nice dedication to French and Japanese cuisines. Speaking of Japanese ingredients and toro in particular (see my previous post), Benkay located in Novotel hotel in the 15th arrondissement…