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
Per Se, New York
May 4, 2012
Astrid y Gason, Lima, Peru
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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