While I am not a big fan of baos at Bao London, the new restaurant by same owners looks promising. XU is a take on 1930s Taipei tearoom and serves revisited Taiwanese cooking. Some dishes were better than others, but, overall, it was a good experience.

I met Kamal Mouzawak at Tawlet, one of the six restaurants he owns in Beirut and elsewhere in Lebanon. We found a common language right away – he is a visionary social activist, a restaurateur, and, most of all, passionate food lover with a deep knowledge of Levantine cuisine. Since…

Apart from few exceptions (which are really worth a special trip), I usually prefer casual restaurants to fine dining in Spain. First, because Spain has really the best seafood, meat and some other produce in Europe and usually Spanish chefs and cooks respect those ingredients (Etxebarri and Elkano are the…

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Bean-to-bar chocolate making is much more than wrapping up the bars in fancy paper and selling for a high price. It’s a lifestyle that encompasses the whole production from the moment cocoa beans are harvested, personally knowing your cocoa farmers and being socially responsible. I first met Samantha Aquim at…

If there’s one place I keep coming back to in Paris, it’s Le Duc. Opened in 1967 by Jean Minchelli, this seafood restaurant was one of a pioneering generation of “Nouvelle Cuisine” establishments that broke with tradition by doing away with heavy sauces and long cooking times to let ingredients…

Two chefs whose work I admire are not classically trained at all, but someone who had other lives before running their restaurants. Hedone’s Mikael Jonsson used to be Monaco based lawyer; Bruno Verjus, French doctor and businessman, now cooks at his restaurant La Table in Paris. What brought them behind…

My lunch in pictures at The Sportsman, one Michelin star gastropub 2 hours drive from London. (I visited it on the 17th of January 2017.) Chef/owner Stephen Harris, who only uses local produce, has never trained as a professional chef yet some of his dishes could easily qualify for 2…

Impeccable techniques and stellar (local, whenever available) ingredients at The Ritz London.If I had to choose the best fine dining restaurants in London, it would definitely be among my top 4 at the moment. (Together with Hedone, The Ledbury and Bonhams).

After working for Joël Robuchon for 16 years in Paris, New York and other cities, Yosuke Suga came back to pursue his career in Japan. He has participated in Iron Chef Japan and now runs a restaurant, open only on those days he decides to open. Apart of the difficult…