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Frantzén/Lindeberg, Stockholm
To front the line.. (Very) luckily, I was among the first few to brave the newly erected kitchen table at two-Michelin-starred + World’s 50 Best‘s ‘One To Watch’ Frantzén/Lindeberg in Stockholm,...
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Faviken Magasinet, Jarpen
(Since the review below, I also returned to Faviken twice. You can graze through my August 2012 album and January 2013 album here) Snow and a frozen lake My first impression of Faviken was that it...
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Chez Dominique, Helsinki
Facts I know very little about Helsinki. Say, this capital city of Finland wasn’t founded by the Finnish but by King Gustavus Vasa of Sweden. It fell under the Russian power from the grandiose court of...
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Not The World’s 50 Best Restaurants..
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...
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Chef’s Table at Brooklyn Fare, New York
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...
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Il Ristorante @ Bvlgari Hotel: Italian Ducasse del Knightsbridge
Something very, very Ducasse-ian Knightsbridge has recently seen erected another luxury hotel Bvlgari (nearly opposite the pomp that is One Hyde Park) within which an Italian restaurant is contained....
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41° Experience, Barcelona
41° Experience There is so much brilliance I can recall about this meal, but I have decided not to put all into writing. Lazy blogger, no. Necessity, yes. The “elements of surprise” are crucial,...
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Michelin London 2013 (Leaked?)
Another year (2013) When I feel Michelin (and the other Best Restaurant list) has become a little bit of banality, there is an explosion of findings on Twitter via Michelin’s own website of the results...
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HKK by Hakkasan: The Morsels of Modern Chinese Banquet in City
City, culture(s) and HKK Despite my being harsh – you will see – I actually like HKK very much. I am talking a new concept modern Chinese restaurant in the City by Hakkasan Group that, contrary to...
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An Intermediate Guide to Fine-Dining in Japan (Tokyo/Autumn)
Why not for the beginners… This is an “Intermediate” guide for aspiring fine diners visiting Japan. My “Intermediate” means something between knowing the basic (i.e. different types of Japanese...
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London Round Up: Little Social + Brasserie Chavot + Ametsa + Outlaw’s +...
AMETSA WITH ARZAK INSTRUCTION RATING: 2/5 Replacing David Thompson’s Nahm at the Halkin Hotel is Ametsa, a spin-off restaurant by 3-Michelin-starred Arzak from San Sebastian, Spain. The team, comprised...
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Kaiseki (Japan) + Late Spring/Early Summer Produce
Kaiseki only.. This is a catching-up of my Intermediate Guide to Fine Dining in Japan, with a focus only on kaiseki (multi-course haute cuisine) and the availability of produce in (late) spring and...
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Passage 53, Paris
Fated! My visit to Passage 53 was accidental. The first minute I rested my wearied buttocks in Paris I received an apologetic phone call from a hard-to-book, 2-Michelin-starred restaurant whose table I...
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Aqua Restaurant, Wolfsburg
Cars.. 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...
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Frantzén/Lindeberg, Stockholm
To front the line.. (Very) luckily, I was among the first few to brave the newly erected kitchen table at two-Michelin-starred + World’s 50 Best‘s ‘One To Watch’ Frantzén/Lindeberg in Stockholm,...
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Faviken Magasinet, Jarpen
(Since the review below, I also returned to Faviken twice. You can graze through my August 2012 album and January 2013 album here) Snow and a frozen lake My first impression of Faviken was that it...
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