Cat Food.. You know…Chef’s Table at Brooklyn Fare is a three-Michelin-starred, 18-seat restaurant appendixed to a supermarket. You know, chef Cesar Ramirez is Mexican but inspired by the Japanese impeccability.The chef’s table concept is developed from a sushi bar. But, chef Ramirez is a man with great toys – an impeccably modern kitchen centrepiece, an …
Not the world’s 50 best restaurants.. Had I but world enough and time, trotting the globe to eat wouldn’t be such a crime. I am a self-confessed World’s 50 Best Restaurants junkie. I find it commendable that the list is streamlined towards unearthing innovations where (occasionally) no ordinary foodie has reached. There is a catch, …
The Bar with a Star Mathias Dahlgren is, arguably, Sweden’s most celebrated chef and a possessor of three Michelin stars across two venues – Matsalen** and Matbaren* – at the Grand Hotel Stockholm. The former was noted for its sumptuous scene; the latter was a brilliantly-designed-yet-laid-back bar restaurant where you can kick back (albeit with …
ACE!? I felt marooned at Ace Hotel (where hip boys and girls play dress-up and doormen can tell a Raf Simons from a Prada bling) on the cusp of Midtown and Koreatown. In that premise there are a Michelin-starred (where I had an underwhelming breakfast), an oyster bar (I gave it a miss) and a …
This is LOVE.. I bloody love Arkady Novikov. If you look into the list of restaurants and chain restaurants the guy owns in Russia, you know he surpasses the definition of a successful restaurateur, more.. perhaps ..of a Russian restaurant mafia. When in Moscow, I visited two of his places (Vogue Cafe and Uzbekistan) and …
The new address.. Thierry Marx is no new chef on the block. Often labelled “French Andria Ferran,” this possessor of two Michelin stars from Bordeaux is widely known for his molecular approach and iconoclastic take on French gastronomy. This I found very exciting, especially when the Paris top (Michelin) dogs – Gagnaire, Passard, Robuchon, or …