There are only two things wrong with the exceptional bagel created by Luca’s Bakery in the South London suburb of East Dulwich:
- It costs £1.40. What chutzpah!
- It’s not a bagel. [Read more...]
Great London Bagel a Case of Pretzel Logic
7 August 2011 By 1 Comment
Osteria Francescana’s Massimo Bottura: “Our Ideas are in Service of the Most Beautiful Foods”
Chef Massimo Bottura of Osteria Francescana in Modena, Italy didn’t win the 2011 The San Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurant Awards on votes but he was tops in decibels. Roars erupted from Monday night’s audience at London’s Guildhall when the chef at the fourth best restaurant in the world, up two places from 2010, was declared the winner of the Chef’s Choice award.
This was the second great honour bestowed upon Bottura in two weeks. On 4 April the local boy made good was awarded the Medaglia d’Oro – “gold medal” – from the commune of Modena (photos here). [Read more...]
20 April 2011 By 1 Comment
Nathan Myhrvold’s Modernist Cuisine: Why Simplify Something When You Make It Complicated?
“If you can suspend gravity you can do wonderful things with a burger,” said Nathan Myhrvold, holding up two of the 2,400 pages from Modernist Cuisine, the six-volume cookbook the former chief technology officer of Microsoft both wrote and underwrote. [Read more...]
15 April 2011 By 1 Comment
The S. Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurants a good bad day for the UK
The UK had a bad night at The S. Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2010. In a glamorous if cacophonous countdown at Guildhall in the City of London, just 3 British restaurants heard their names called. Hibiscus (London) slipped in at 49; St John (London) got its tail in the door at 43; and 2005 winner The Fat Duck (Bray) was demoted from 2nd to 3rd best, behind El Bulli and Noma, the first-time champion from Copenhagen.
With New York placing 6 of its restaurants in the top 50 and Paris 5, proud locals who were calling London the number one restaurant city only yesterday may have been having second thoughts this morning. I too found myself reassessing my position on the matter, only from the opposite perspective: last night was the first time since moving to London 5 years ago I felt inclined to place it above Paris and New York, my prior cities of residence, as the world’s gastronomic capital. [Read more...]
27 April 2010 By 1 Comment
