I found this old Michelin guide at a hotel lounge in Rio de Janeiro. What is interesting that five out of six 3 Michelin starred restaurants in Paris in 1976 are still well and opened after 35 years. (Four of them still have Michelin stars).

Dear Readers, I wanted to thank you for visiting my blog and wish you lots of success, joy and love in 2012!

You can find the whole list here. Fantastic chefs, great food bloggers, critics… Luxeat as well 😉

Luxeat’s meal of the year is on the list! (so as some of the best chefs’ in the world, writers’ and fellow food bloggers’)

“Sushi and Beyond: What the Japanese Know About Cooking” by Michael Booth is an amusing and super informative book about Japanese food and culture. If you are passionate about Japan like me, you will really enjoy it.

A bottle of water for 200 euros at La Pergola restaurant in Rome. ( No, I didn’t drink it!)

…at least when I was in Brussels. Kriek is Belgium beer fermented with cherries. Normally I don’t like beer, but this one tastes like a slightly alcoholic cherry drink(very distinctive and natural flavour). I wonder if you can buy it elsewhere… P.S. Apologies for being absent from the blogosphere recently…

A 342 kg bluefin tuna has been sold for a record $400 000 this morning. I guess it will be more and more expensive in the future because of the overfishing…

An excellent WSJ article by Amy Ma about the trend at contemporary restaurants to give their dishes nondescript names. El Bulli famously does that, Bo Innoovation so as many other modern restaurants. While I agree with the Hong Kong blogger Peter Chang that such menus are ” really annoying”, what…