May 31, 2012
Back in the day when molecular gasatronomists were exploding their food all over the place such as El Bulli in Spain and Fat Duck in England, Wylie Dufresne of restaurant WD-50 in New York was doing equally hair-brained and exciting things with his food. One of his dishes was actually called ‘hair applicator’ where one squirted a substance out of an aerosol into a bowl of steaming liquid only to realise that what formed was prawn noodles. Recently, there was much excitement when he announced that the entire menu at the restaurant would be changing, and a 12 course tasting menu of dishes “which will not only be new to the restaurant, but, as is usually the case with cuisine de Wylie, also new to human civilization itself” (New York Times, 2 May, 2012). It has just so happened that right before this ground breaking announced was made, I had a reservation – after all, this was a restaurant I had marvelled at continually over the years.
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May 28, 2012
It’s only been rated 6th best restaurant in the world this year, and spent the last 8 years on the list of 50 Best Restaurants, been given higher ratings than any other restaurant in North America (with maybe the exception of its sister in California) and I could go on and on, but the truth is that Thomas Keller’s Per Se, aside from its glorification, is also one of the most over-hyped restaurants in the world – one that keeps pushing one’s expectations higher and higher until they could possibly go no further, a very serious contention for disappointment and despair. Having sampled the fare of French Laundry in its London avatar, I wondered just what Per Se might have up its sleeve…
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May 28, 2012
New York, New York…one only has to mention that name and a smile immediately erupts on everyone’s face and they start waxing lyrical about their love for the Big Apple. No less is everyone’s view that it is truly one of the greatest, if not THE greatest city in the world for food – long gone is Paris’ dominance, for New York is apparently where the most exciting food and surely the most varied food is to be found, so for a first visit, it was only befitting that I spend a fair 2 weeks slowly expanding my waistline, beginning with Southeast Asian fare.
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May 4, 2012
In recent years there’s been all sorts of hype and excitement formulated by San Peligrino and its World’s 50 Best Restaurants, a feat accomplished by no less (apparently) than 800 industry experts across the globe, diligently eating away in hundreds of restaurants to bring us a definitive list of the finest eateries. Whilst my personal experience in many of the featured restaurants has been nothing short of dismal, there have been experiences that have made my head swoon and my entire being suspended in a surreal intoxication. Nevertheless, I do find myself leaning towards the list more and more often when travelling, to see for myself how my taste buds will fare, and there’s not a country in South America that hasn’t got a restaurant by the Peruvian chef, Gaston, whether they’re arms of the mother ship, Astrid y Gaston in Lima or thers such as Chicha and La Mar. It is with the mothership, recently voted 35th best restaurant in the world that the ensuing words and emotions are connected.
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