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THREE brothers in Spain’s northeastern Catalonia region who snatched the title for the world’s best restaurant, the Celler de Can Roca, humbly trace their inspiration to their mum’s cooking.   The Roca brothers, Joan, Jordi, and Josep, had already wowed critics and diners worldwide with a cutting edge technique and cooking rooted in Spanish and Catalan traditions, earning them three Michelin stars.   But four years after fellow Catalan restaurant El]]>
TOKYO retained its tasty title as the Michelin guide’s world gourmet capital on Wednesday (November 28), although the number of three-star restaurants fell slightly.   This is the sixth consecutive year the capital of food-obsessed Japan has been awarded top honours by the publishers of a guide book regarded by many as a fine-dining resource.   Tokyo was also lauded for having the most restaurants bearing three-stars - the Michelin guide’s top honour - ev]]>
RIGHT NOW Clementine Dupraz is busy slicing a chocolate cake, but soon she may be running a luxury hotel, or crunching numbers in a bank. For this Swiss school trains the elite of world hospitality, teaching them to talk both food and money. “Finance has become a more and more important part of the industry,” explained Fabien Fresnel, dean of Lausanne’s Hospitality Management School, an ultra-modern facility set on the hills above the city. “Back in the old day]]>
FROM au pair to television chef of the moment, Rachel Khoo has come a long way since she landed in Paris from London six years ago, armed with schoolgirl French and a love of cooking. With a bestselling recipe book and BBC series, The Little Paris Kitchen, now under her belt, the 31-year-old looks well placed to be the next big thing on the television chef scene. Or rather, the next small thing. For Khoo’s new-found fame comes courtesy of the micro-restaurant which the bubbly br]]>
MIDNIGHT snack-lovers seeking accommodation on Germany’s River Rhine need look no further. The Food Hotel in Neuwied, Germany offers you the next best thing to sleeping in the supermarket aisle. With furniture that looks like cans in the lounges, stools made of beer crates in the bar and both tables and cushions shaped like biscuits in one of the bedrooms, there is no getting away from food and drink in this supermarket-themed hotel. Thirty-six of Germany’s biggest household names,]]>
THERE is cuisine which aims to excite the palate, and cuisine to please the eye.Argentine neurologist-turned-chef Miguel Sanchez Romera, however, has another proposition: restaurant fare which, with originality and purity, awakens and excites the brain.When he opens his high-concept “Romera” restaurant next month in New York’s edgy meatpacking district, the Michelin-ranked chef will be serving up what he calls “neurogastronomy” meant to deliver complete sensory expe]]>
ELBULLI, the beachside Spanish restaurant repeatedly crowned the world’s best, closed on Saturday (July 30) after pushing the boundaries of cuisine for over two decades under acclaimed chef Ferran Adria. The 49-year-old announced last year that he was closing the eatery overlooking a cove in the Mediterranean in Cala Montjoi near the resort of Roses, a two-hour drive north of Barcelona, and replacing it with a culinary research centre. Preparing dozens of courses each night and fielding ]]>
FORGET five-star restaurants. Food-loving tourists are getting their kicks in other ways, from cooking up a hotpot with a Mauritian grandmother to market shopping with a Venetian countess. More than just fine dining, well-heeled travellers in search of gourmet luxury are seeking out “experiences,” sparking a shift in the tourist industry, according to experts at a recent upmarket travel fair in Cannes. “Gourmet travel as a niche market is huge everywhere,” Jennifer Campbe]]>