I am jealous of all the great sushi restaurants you can find in Manhattan. In that sense, Europe is sad (I know, I am repeating myself ;)) – the fish quality is bad most of the times, the sushi masters (or those pretending to be sushi masters) don’t slice fish…

Katz’s Delicatessen is not only a pastrami institution, it’s part of New York history. If you visit New York, you must go there the same as you must eat a buttery croissant when in Paris or spicy currywurst when in Berlin. The question is, is it worth a return? Yesterday…

Address: L’Astrance (3*) (4 Rue Beethoven 75016 Paris, tel. 01 40 50 84 40 ) Chef: Pascal Barbot Have I been there before? Twice. First time when it already had one Michelin star and once when it just got it’s the second star. Ambiance and service: Friendly, professional, yet less…

Address: Passage 53 (53 Passage des Panoramas 75002 Paris – 01 42 33 04 35) Chef: Shinichi Sato (former of l’Astrance (Pascal Barbot) and Aida) Have I been there before? No Ambience: nonexistent. Because the restaurant is so small and has a huge window to the Passage des Panoramas (it used to…

Address: La Régalade (14 Avenue Jean Moulin 75014 Paris – 01 45 45 68 58) Chef: Bruno Doucet Have been there before? Yes Ambience: busy, lively and convivial Food: rustic, very generous… A Parisian bistro that sets the standards of how “a typical Parisian bistro” should be. What is in the plates?…

Harutaka (1*, Kawabata Building 3F, 8-5-8 Ginza, tel. 03 3573 1144 ) – the last sushiya from the sushi from Tokyo series this year. And my favourite so far. Harutaka Takahashi ( left) comes from Sukiyabashi Jiro “school”, so you can see many similarities with Sukiyabashi Jiro Roppongi (and, I…

Claude Colliot ( 40, rue des Blancs Manteaux, 75004, Paris, tel.01 42 71 55 45) is only two weeks old. Maybe you can feel the freshness of the place in the decor and the attitude of the waiters, but the cooking of Claude Colliot is solid and memorable (He used…

I missed my plane back to Europe, so instead of waiting at Narita for the evening flight I went back to Tokyo and had lunch at Sukiyabashi Jiro in Roppongi Hills. (The one Michelin English speaking sister restaurant of the three Michelin Sukiyabashi Jiro in Ginza. The sushi chef is…

Before this trip to Tokyo, I agreed with those who were sceptical about other than Japanese food in Japan. Well, after my dinner at 3 Michelin stars L’Osier, I don’t share this opinion anymore. Imagine what happens when the excellence of French gastronomy collides with Japanese perfectionism. It is a…

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…