August 6, 2012
It’s amazing how much hype and attention is given to winners of TV food competitions and even more remarkable is the quality of food on offer at these restaurants. Having unintentionally eaten at several restaurants run by the US food series Top Chef winners, the expectations from such restaurant just kept getting higher and higher and one such restaurant, The Girl and Goat, in Chicago had been garnering a lot of praise from critics and best restaurant lists alike.
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July 3, 2012
Charlie Trotter: the man’s been a legend for 25 years having run one of the first fine dining restaurants to champion local produce and developing cross cultural cooking to a level that hadn’t been done before. Charlie Trotter’s Desserts was the first cookbook I ever bought, having left college to go work at Gordon Ramsay at the Claridges as commis pastry chef. In that book was a recipe for Goats cheese and grape ice cream – a fabulous combination and one that has been replicated at numerous restaurants. I, of course, being a bit of a rebel and over excited at having learnt how to make ice creams for the first time, decided to attempt a goats cheese and grape ice cream! I’m sure there’s nothing wrong with that, except, I used the recipe for a normal
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June 11, 2012
Gastronomical adventures in the windy city are often only attributed to Alinea, Next and Charlie Trotters. Unbeknownst to most is a little hub of innovation and madness called Moto, with the Willy Wonka-esque Homaro Cantu, serving up a style of food only a handful of people the world over are actually masters of, with impersonators a plenty - a cuisine formerly known as Molecular Gastronomy and what I like to refer to as ‘surreal’. Located near the top end of the meat-packing district, one wonders, whilst walking there, who on Earth would have a restaurant in this neighbourhood – isolated, stark, empty, but then half way down on the other side of the road, cafe’s, bars, restaurants all start showing their cheery heads and one promptly walks straight past Moto before checking the building numbers or Google maps and swiftly turning around and hunting down the front door and finding it located right beside Next/Aviary and feeling a slight glow of happiness, especially as there happened to be a table booked for drinks at Aviary later in the evening!
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