Opinionated About Dining continues the great tradition of asking chefs and bloggers what was their meal of the year. You can see the whole list here. Ms Luxeat is on the list too 😉

..club sandwich with foie gras, black truffles and celery. Obviously, Fauchon continues its tradition of high end “fast food”…

I was inspired by Turkish aubergine salad when I was in Turkey earlier this year. What I love about it that you don’t have to do a lot (when it comes to my own cooking, I like to keep it simple) – the oven does the work you. The recipe…

If you love Japanese culture, you must have seen or heard of an eighties movie called “Tampopo”, Japanese comedy about love, life and ramen. The movie starts with a younger truck driver Gun (Ken Watanabe) reading a book about ramen to an older truck driver Goro (Tsutomu Yamazaki). The younger…

Only in Tokyo – 3 melons for around 500 dollars, found in a fruit shop in Ginza… No, I didn’t buy one.

I am in my favourite city in the world and my first dinner here was at Ukai-tei Ginza , teppanyaki restaurant in Ginza. Needless to say the “super top quality” beefsteak was a reminder that the Japanese have the best beef in the world…

Here is a recipe of strawberry trifle that is fresh, refreshing and very fast to make. And as I am not a big cook and almost never cook I love effortless recipes 🙂 I was inspired by a recipe I found online but made quite a few changes. Instead of…

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…

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…

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…