World’s best restaurants 2017
On the final day of this year, we present to you our list of best restaurants 2017. Last year we introduced it and for those of you wondering who we are, please check the introduction…
Grant Achatz: nostalgia on a plate
If there’s one restaurant high up on our list, it’s Grant Achatz’s Alinea. We were planning to visit the restaurant this year (along with Achatz’s Next and Roister -fried chicken sandwich!), but then the unimaginable…
Fine dining with an edge at StreetXO
Sometimes the first impression doesn’t say it all. I described our dinner two years ago at Diverxo as a culinary Clockwork Orange full of joy and horror, hopping from wonderful food to dishes that, well,…
World’s best restaurants 2016
Yes indeed, this is our own super-duper alternative list of World’s best restaurants. ‘And who might you be’, you will ask. Well, we’re an enthusiastic bunch of food lovers. We’re the inconspicuous people in restaurants,…
Lost Sons
The erosion of the power of the Catholic church had begun with the ninety-five theses the German friar Martin Luther had hammered on October 31, 1517, on the door of All Saints’ Church in Wittenberg.…
Darine Hotait: home is where you break
photos © Darine Hotait I Say Dust, the short, poetic film by Lebanese-American director and producer Darine Hotait was recently banned in Lebanon by the General Security Censorship Office. Because of a kiss. We caught…
Chef Massimo Bottura: passion in edible bites
all photos © Paolo Terzi Chef Massimo Bottura of three star restaurant Osteria Francescana is very excited about his project in the slums of Rio de Janeiro: a soup kitchen where food, that would otherwise be wasted, will…