The Young&Foodish year ended on a high note, with my signing on with Phaidon, the prestigious publisher of books by Massimo Bottura, Ferran Adrià  and René Redzepi, to compile a guide to the world's best pizzerias. This happy development should not come as too much...
Rene Redzepi
Rene Redzepi: “There is No Best Restaurant in the World”
[oqeygallery id=5] "There is no best restaurant in the world," Rene Redzepi told me minutes after Noma, his Copenhagen restaurant, claimed that very title for the second year running at last night's The San Pellegrino World's 50 Best Restaurants awards. "Here...
Is Isaac McHale the next big thing?
Were a CV a sure indicator of a chef's potential, as only gullible restaurateurs and food critics are led to believe, then Isaac McHale would already be counting his Michelin stars. Three weeks shy of 30 and three months from running his own kitchen for the first time...
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...