Very interesting cooking at West Africa flavours inspired Ikoyi in London, a brainchild of Chinese Canadian philosopher turned chef Jeremy Chan. He chose this African region, because it’s still unexplored and there are “countless possibilities of interpretation and creativity”. Before opening Ikoyi 7 weeks ago, he researched for a few…

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…

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…

Disfrutar is the only restaurant I know that does molecular cooking in 2016 and gets away with it so successfully. This was a stellar meal- tasty, relevant and creative like I haven’t seen anywhere else. Pictures were taken on the 15th of July 2016 (First visit – 7th of December…

I met Česlovas Žemaitis last autumn, when my friends insisted I visit Šturmų Švyturys, the fish restaurant he opened with his wife Asta in Vilnius’ up-and-coming Uzupio district. The restaurant in Vilnius is their second location; the first is a peaceful hotel on the shores of the Curonian lagoon, where…

What is beautiful about Israeli cuisine is that it is so diverse because of the different cultures brought by the Jewish diaspora. So at The Palomar in London, which revisits and reinvents Jerusalem cooking, you might have kubaneh, Yemeni pot baked bread to start, then continue with Morrocan style oysters…

Because of the big backlog of all the posts I have to make and little time, will keep the few upcoming posts short but useful I hope 😉 So this was my recent dim sum lunch at A Wong in London. Still very tasty, masterful modern Cantonese cooking and good…