TranslationThe black one.. Po Cha is one of those dodgy-looking Korean eateries on the strip off St Giles Central that I have frequented for years but never got round to remember its name. I just call it “the black one” due to the black paint on the restaurant’s facade. Unappealing from the outside, but intimate …
TranslationSpringy, squeaky, squishy, squid-y… There are a limited number of vocabulary to describe an out-of-this-world sushi experience. (I won’t attempt it). Let’s just say that if you think you can die for sushi and happen to be in Singapore, Shinji by Kanesaka is the place to be. This small sushi bar with an awkward shopping …
TranslationThe man who has matured I was told, by head chef and owner Filip Claeys, that De Jonkman was translated into “The Young Man”, the phrase representative of himself when he opened this modern restaurant with rooms off Bruges’s city centre. Filip has a good culinary pedigree, having worked for Bruges’s 3-Michelin-starred institution restaurant De …
TranslationLust at first sight Rough. The kitchen bar at 10 Greek Street was stunningly rough. I couldn’t take my eyes off it – that high metallic bar, white-tiled walls, wooden floor and a high conservatory-like roof. I could sit facing the busy brigade of young chefs in their rough-and-ready kitchen. No. I opted for one …
TranslationFertile ground Karpo is the Greek goddess of fruit of the earth, the concept which isn’t only materialised in the restaurant’s own rooftop vegetable garden but also its living wall of mostly inedible plant. The interior – a mixture of mix-and-match ivy, wood, granite and graffiti art – was that of serenity vis-a-vis buzzing hip-ness. …
TranslationCars.. Restaurant Aqua is, practically, a restaurant in a car park. Situated on the ground floor of The Ritz-Carlton Hotel in a small, kind-of-chaavy industrial town of Wolfsburg, this is a fine dining lair in (pretty much) the middle of nowhere. While Wolfsburg itself isn’t a no-go town, its attractions are tailored only for car …