   Frantzen in Stockholm - 3 Michelin starsRating: 100.
Frantzén originally started out as a collaboration between chef Björn Frantzén and his business partner and pastry chef Daniel Lindeberg in 2008, when they established restaurant Frantzén/Lindeberg in Gamla Stan, the old town of Stockholm. The restaurant experienced early acclaim from Michelin, collecting a Michelin star the following year. Perhaps no surprise, because ... Category: Restaurants - Subcategories: 3 stars, Sweden - 16-06-2018READ MORE  Quintessence in Tokyo, Japan - 3 Michelin starsRating: 91.
Tokyo currently has twelve three-star restaurants, of which four have held this accolade since the first edition of the Michelin guide Tokyo was published in 2007 (2008 guide). One of these four is Quintessence, located in Tokyo's Shinagawa ward/district, a difficult but not impossible restaurant to book. When I was in Tokyo I stayed at the Shangri-La Hotel and this was one of the first ... Category: Restaurants - Subcategory Other - 07-06-2018READ MORE  Hide (Above) in LondonRating: 89.
Picture this: you're a Russian multi-millionaire with a love for wine and food and you already own Hedonism Wines in Mayfair, which has quickly become one of the world's foremost merchants in fine wine. It has some 6,500 different wines in stock, including some very rare and very fine bottles, think Lafite and Pétrus vintages which go back to 1949 and 1945 respectively, and a larg... Category: Restaurants - Subcategory UK - London - 28-05-2018READ MORE  Rakuichi Soba in Niseko, Hokkaido, JapanRating: 90.
From the outside Rakuichi Soba is an unassuming restaurant. It doesn't have a large sign, it's housed in a traditional Japanese wooden house/chalet, which you can reach by a narrow wooden bridge. As an unsuspecting foreigner you'd probably walk past without even knowing it's there. But today, everybody knows it's there. The restaurant became famous after it appeared in the Ho... Category: Restaurants - Subcategory Other - Niseko - 25-05-2018READ MORE  Cornerstone in Hackney Wick, LondonRating: 90.
Hackney has become so hip by now, that it's hard to imagine that only a decade ago it was difficult to find a cabbie who would take you from central London to anywhere near Clapton Road aka "Murder Mile". A friend of mine was living on Ickburgh Road at the time, and when we would ask to be taken there, more often than not the cabbie would look at us with a combination of suspicion ... Category: Restaurants - Subcategory UK - London - 22-05-2018READ MORE  Oaxen Krog in Stockholm, Sweden - 2 Michelin starsRating: 95.
In 1994 chef Magnus Ek, together with his wife Agneta Green, opened his first restaurant on an island in Stockholm's archipelago called Oaxen, naming the restaurant Oaxen Skärgårdskrog. Over time the restaurant gained popular and critical acclaim and it entered the World's 50 Best Restaurants list in 2006 at number 48 (Noma entering that same year at number 33) and manage... Category: Restaurants - 15-05-2018READ MORE .jpg) Narisawa in Tokyo, Japan - 2 Michelin starsRating: 97.
Chef Yoshihiro Narisawa (b. 1969) started his career at the early age of 19, training in the three Michelin starred kitchens of Frédy Girardet in Crissier (Switzerland), of Paul Bocuse in Lyon and Joël Robuchon in Paris, and at Antica Osteria del Ponto in Milan, also three Michelin starred at the time. After eight years in Europe, Narisawa returned to Japan in 1996 to open his o... Category: Restaurants - Subcategory Other - Tokyo - 08-05-2018READ MORE  Restaurant David Toutain in Paris - 1 Michelin starRating: 91.
Training with big name French chefs does set you up in the world of gastronomy and David Toutain (b.1981) trained with some of the very best, like Alain Passard, Pierre Gagnaire, Marc Veyrat, and Bernard Pacaud. Add to that two internships at Andoni Luis Aduriz' Mugaritz and Paul Liebrandt's Corton in New York City (now closed) and it will be of no surprise that when Toutain returned to ... Category: Restaurants - Subcategory France - Paris - 02-05-2018READ MORE  Quinsou in Paris - 1 Michelin starRating: 89.
Quinsou has been on the Paris food scene since the end of 2016, but chef/owner Antonin Bonnet is not exactly a new kid in town and has already made a name for himself during his years (2012-2015) as head chef at Le Sergent Recruteur in Paris' 4th arrondissement (then 1 Michelin star, awarded within 5 months after opening). Before relocating to Paris in 2012, Antonin Bonnet was head chef at T... Category: Restaurants - 20-04-2018READ MORE  Restaurant La Condesa in ParisRating: 90.
La Condesa, a small 24-seat restaurant in Paris' 9th arrondissement, opened its doors in September 2017. Chef/owner is Mexican-bron Indra Carrillo, an Institut Paul Bocuse graduate, who has gained experience in some of the best kitchen's in the world, including Le Meurice (during the Yannick Alléno years), l'Astrance, Enoteca Pinchiorri in Florence, Noma in Copenhagen and Ginz... Category: Restaurants - 19-04-2018READ MORE  Restaurant 212 in AmsterdamRating: 93.
Last year, at the end of August, news broke that chefs Richard van Oostenbrugge and Thomas Groot of restaurant Bord'eau (2 Michelin stars at the time), would leave Bord'eau by the end of the year to start their own kitchen counter restaurant in Amsterdam. Two weeks later, around my birthday, I had one final meal at Bordeau, a truly outstanding meal that was nothing short of three-st... Category: Restaurants - Subcategory The Netherlands - Amsterdam - 02-03-2018READ MORE  De Kas in AmsterdamRating: 90.
De Kas has been a steady fixture on the Amsterdam dining scene for many years. Any visitor of the Dutch capital with an interest in food will probably have De Kas on their restaurant list; during both my recent meals there, the dining room counted many nationalities. One of the main attractions of the restaurant is its unique location in a vintage greenhouse which dates bake to 1926, with a... Category: Restaurants - Subcategory The Netherlands - Amsterdam - 14-02-2018READ MORE  Le Pressoir d'Argent in Bordeaux - 2 Michelin starsRating: 94.
Le Pressoir d'Argent is housed in the Intercontinental Le Grand Hotel, located on the Place de la Comédie in the historic town centre of Bordeaux. Owner of the hotel is Michel Oyahon, who bought the property in 1999. At the time, the hotel had already been closed for renovations for years and several more years were spent on extensive redesign and refurbishments before the hotel ... Category: Restaurants - Subcategory France - Bordeaux - 13-02-2018READ MORE  Maison Troisgros in Ouches - 3 Michelin starsRating: 89.
Maison Troisgros ("Troisgros") is a 4th generation family-run hotel and restaurant, originally established in Roanne, France, but since early 2017 relocated to a rather spectacular new, 17-hectare "domaine" in Ouches. The first few glimpses of this new location in the Loire countryside were shown in the Chef's Table France's Troisgros episode, a Netflix series that wa... Category: Restaurants - Subcategories: 3 stars, France - 22-01-2018READ MORE .jpg) Restaurant Anglo in LondonRating: 90. Since the opening in April 2016, Anglo has been getting high praise from Britain's restaurant critics, including two 5-star reviews from Grace Dent (then Evening Standard) and the late A.A. Gill (The Sunday Times), within weeks of opening. Later that year Anglo picked up the Observer Food Monthly's "Best Newcomer" award. Anglo is located just off the lively Leather Lane... Category: Restaurants - Subcategory UK - 21-01-2018READ MORE  Garopapilles in BordeauxRating: 89.
In 2012 Gaël Morand and Tanguy Laviale opened Garopapilles, a wine boutique cum 20-seat neo-bistro in Bordeaux. Morand is in charge of the wine, Laviale of the food. Tanguy Laviale started his chef career in Paris in the early 00's, where he attended Ferrandi culinary school. After graduation he worked in the kitchens of Christian LeSquer's Ledoyen (now run by Yannick Alleno), ... Category: Restaurants - Subcategory France - Bordeaux - 31-12-2017READ MORE  My 15 Best Dishes of 2017
I don't know about you, but my iPhone has over 37,000 photographs of food, 5 selfies, and around 500 photographs of people and dogs. These photographs were all taken between 2014 and 2017. So, on average I take 9,000 photographs of food per year and that is food in the broadest sense of the word. Ingredients such as meat and fish (dead or alive, I do enjoy taking photographs of cows and pigs... Category: Restaurants - 28-12-2017READ MORE  Claude Bosi at Bibendum in London - 2 Michelin starsRating: 96.
During the pre-Brexit Mayfair property boom Claude Bosi decided to sell the lease for his two-star restaurant Hibiscus on Maddox Street when he was able to secure a good deal. And so Hibiscus closed its doors in October 2016 after 16 years, of which 9 years in London. In April 2017 Claude Bosi (b.1972 in Lyon) re-emerged with a new restaurant on 81 Fulham Road, better known as Michelin House. Mi... Category: Restaurants - Subcategory UK - London - 27-11-2017READ MORE  The Black Swan in Oldstead - 1 Michelin starRating: 91.
The Black Swan is a handsome 16th century inn located in the tiny village in Olstead, North Yorkshire. The building was bought by local farmers Tom and Anne Banks in 2006 and together with their sons Tommy and James the couple turned the Black Swan into a successful pub/restaurant with rooms. From 2008 till 2013 the kitchen was run by chef Adam Jackson and in 2012 the Black Swan was awarded a M... Category: Restaurants - Subcategory UK - Oldstead - 18-11-2017READ MORE  Core by Clare Smyth in LondonRating: 92.
Exceptional chefs don't just create great restaurants and great dishes; if they are worth their salt they also generate professional offspring, thereby building there own culinary family tree. In the UK obviously a giant Sequoia chef tree was planted by the Roux family, with chefs with renowned restaurants scattered around the country. Growing right next to it, and yes I believe he deser... Category: Restaurants - Subcategory UK - London - 08-11-2017READ MORE  The Man Behind the Curtain in Leeds - 1 Michelin starRating: 93.
In August this year I tweeted "I don't think many people realise how exciting and mature the UK dining scene has become, both in and outside of the capital". I made this statement on the basis of recent, extensive visits to the UK and many other visits in the past, and I honestly feel that the UK dining scene has shifted up several gears, especially in the north of England. For gas... Category: Restaurants - Subcategory UK - Leeds - 01-11-2017READ MORE  Manoir Restaurant Inter Scaldes in Kruiningen, the Netherlands - 3 Michelin starsRating: 98. Note: In December Inter Scaldes was awarded a third Michelin star in the 2018 guide for the Netherlands
The southwestern province of Zeeland is perhaps the foodiest province of the Netherlands, especially if you're into seafood. The province is one of the least densely populated provinces of the Netherlands, with around 380,000 inhabitants compared to e.g. 2.4 million in the neighbouri... Category: Restaurants - Subcategory The Netherlands - Other - 15-10-2017READ MORE  Where The Light Gets In in StockportRating: 81. Where The Light Gets In ("WTLGI") is a new restaurant in Stockport, which opened its doors in October 2016. Chef/owner is 34-year-old Sam Buckley, who has previously worked in the kitchens of celebrated chefs such as Gary Rhodes, Paul Kitching (at the then 1-star Juniper in Altrincham) and Simon Rogan (at l'Enclume). The 25-seat restaurant is housed in a former coffee warehouse,... Category: Restaurants - Subcategory UK - 27-09-2017READ MORE  Restaurant Sat Bains in Nottingham - 2 Michelin starsRating: 94. Winners of the prestigious Roux Scholarship competition in the UK are allowed to choose a three Michelin starred restaurant anywhere in the world for a three-month stage. When Sat Bains (b. 1971) won the competition in 1999 he picked Le Jardin des Sens, the then famous three-star restaurant in Montpellier, run by the Pourcel brothers. Working there at the same time was René Redzepi and they... Category: Restaurants - Subcategory UK - Nottingham - 25-09-2017READ MORE  Paul Ainsworth at No 6 in Padstow - 1 Michelin starRating: 91.
When Paul Ainsworth opened No 6 in 2006, Padstow's key food attraction was Rick Stein's flagship seafood restaurant. Stein is still the doyen of Padstow, but in his wake Paul Ainsworth has built his own successful restaurant business. No 6 is still going strong, having held a Michelin star now for almost five years running, and recently it underwent an extensive refurbishment, inclu... Category: Restaurants - Subcategory UK - Cornwall - 12-09-2017READ MORE  The Dining Room at Whatley Manor in Malmesbury - 2 Michelin starsRating: 92.
Whatley Manor in the southern Cotswolds was originally built as a farm house (and named Twatley Manor) in the 18th century as part of the farm estate Twatley farm. Since then, the manor changed hands several times, was renamed to its current name in the early 60s, and has been running as a hotel since 1987. Current owners of Whatley Manor are Alix Landolt and her son Christian, members of a... Category: Restaurants - Subcategory UK - Malmesbury - 29-08-2017READ MORE  Gidleigh Park in Chagford - 2 Michelin starsRating: 85.
For years Gidleigh Park in Chagford, Devon, was the home of chef Michael Caines, who ran the kitchens from 1994 up to and including 2015. The restaurant has held two Michelin stars since 1999, making it one of the longest running two-star restaurants in the UK. At the end of 2015 it was announced that Michael Caines would be leaving the restaurant after 21 years, to pursue a new business adventu... Category: Restaurants - Subcategory UK - Devon - 26-08-2017READ MORE  The West House in Biddenden - 1 Michelin starRating: 90.
"Chefs are the new rock stars" PR people and agents are telling us, and it is true that many famous chefs have become celebrities. I don't really know whether they found the spotlight or whether the spotlight found them, but most couldn't possibly be mistaken for a true rock star. Marco Pierre White would be the obvious exception of course and when you look at the Instagram fee... Category: Restaurants - Subcategory UK - Kent - 21-08-2017READ MORE  The Hand & Flowers in Marlow - 2 Michelin starsRating: 91.
When I visited The Hand & Flowers for the first time back in 2010, Tom Kerridge had just been on Great British Menu (series 5), winning the main course with his slow-cooked Aylesbury duck with duck fat chips and gravy. He prolonged the main course title the next year with a hog roast. Participating in Great British Menu brought Tom Kerridge instant fame, to which Michelin contributed by... Category: Restaurants - Subcategory UK - Buckinghamshire - 28-07-2017READ MORE  Salt by Paul Foster in Stratford-upon-AvonRating: 89. These days more and more restaurants are being financed by crowdfunding. One of the first to set the crowdfunding ball running in 2013 was The Clove Club in London's Shoreditch, which was partly funded by a £250,000 crowdfunding campaign. A particularly spectacular case was Thai restaurant Som Saa in 2015, who forked in £700,000 on Crowdcube in just four days, £150,000 above ... Category: Restaurants - Subcategory UK - 18-07-2017READ MORE  Le Manoir Aux Quat'Saisons in Great Milton - 2 Michelin starsRating: 88.
Facebook showed me an "On this day" memory the other day. It was a photograph of my last visit to Le Manoir Aux Quat'Saisons ("Le Manoir") near Oxford, taken 7 years ago. Seven years, in which Britain experienced huge changes in the gastronomic landscape, certainly in London but also around the country. Things at Le Manoir haven't changed much. The location of t... Category: Restaurants - Subcategory UK - Great Milton - 14-07-2017READ MORE  The Wild Rabbit in Kingham - 1 Michelin starRating: 93. Note (02/10/17): Executive chef Tim Allen has left The Wild Rabbit in August 2017 and the restaurant's Michelin star was retracted in 2018 Michelin guide for Great Britain & Ireland
Daylesford is one of the most famous farm shops in the UK and was without a doubt a pioneering shop when it was established in 2002 by Lady (Carole) Bamford, wife of Lord (Anthony) Bamford, chairman of JCB... Category: Restaurants - Subcategory UK - Kingham - 04-07-2017READ MORE  Restaurant Lafleur in Frankfurt - 2 Michelin starsRating: 93. Germany currently has no fewer than 39 2-star restaurants and in the 2017 guide for Germany the city of Frankfurt was featured with two 2-star restaurants, Tiger-Gourmetrestaurant and Restaurant Lafleur, both part of the the Tiger Palmen Gruppe. Tiger-Gourmetrestaurant was awarded its second Michelin star in November 2013 (2014 guide). Executive chef at the time was Andreas Krolik (b.1974), who no... Category: Restaurants - Subcategory Germany - Frankfurt - 04-06-2017READ MORE  Restaurant Schwarzenstein - Nils Henkel in Geisenheim, GermanyRating: 95. Just last December, it was announced that Burg Schwarzenstein, a luxury hotel located in the Rheingau wine region in Germany, had brought chef Nils Henkel on board to run their gourmet restaurant. Nils Henkel used to be executive chef at Gourmetrestaurant Lerbach at the Schloss Lerbach hotel in Bergisch-Gladbach, but he kind of fell of my radar when Schloss Lerbach ("Lerbach") closed its... Category: Restaurants - Subcategory Germany - Geisenheim - 10-05-2017READ MORE  Dos Pebrots in BarcelonaRating: 89. Dos Pebrots (two peppers) is the second restaurant of chef Albert Raurich, well-known as the former Chef de Cuisine (2000-2007) at elBulli. Raurich opened his first restaurant Dos Palillos (two cocktail sticks), a Spanish-Asian tapas bar, in 2008, followed by the opening of Dos Palillos in Berlin in 2010 (now closed). Dos Pebrots opened its doors in September 2016, with chef Borja García Or... Category: Restaurants - Subcategory Spain - Barcelona - 23-04-2017READ MORE  Restaurant Arles in AmsterdamRating: 85.
Restaurant Arles ("Arles') is a neo-bistro situated in the De Pijp area in Amsterdam, and is owned by hospitality concept developer Ronald Huiskamp and Bob Hamersma, son of renowned Dutch wine writer Harold Hamersma. Huiskamp was recently also involved as concept developer/consultant in the (re)launch of The White Room at the Krasnapolsky Hotel (three-star chef Jacob Jan Boerma's se... Category: Restaurants - Subcategory The Netherlands - Amsterdam - 06-04-2017READ MORE  Pure C in Zeeland, the Netherlands - 1 Michelin starRating: 93.
When Pure C opened in 2010, it was the second restaurant of Dutch chef Sergio Herman, internationally acclaimed for his three Michelin starred restaurant Oud Sluis in Sluis. A lot has changed since then. In the summer of 2013 it was announced that Oud Sluis was to close its doors for good at the end of the year, Herman stating at the time "I've literally and figuratively reached my peak... Category: Restaurants - Subcategory The Netherlands - Cadzand - 01-04-2017READ MORE  Atelier in Munich - 3 Michelin starsRating: 98. Note: in November 2017 it was announced that Atelier was awarded 3 Michelin stars in the 2018 Michelin guide to Germany
Atelier is the fine dining restaurant of Munich's luxury five-star Hotel Bayerischer Hof, recently making the news because of the high-profile 53rd Munich Security Conference that was held at the hotel. Executive chef of Atelier since 2014 is Jan Hartwig (b. 1982). Hartwig... Category: Restaurants - Subcategories: Germany, 3 stars - 26-03-2017READ MORE  Lasarte in Barcelona - 3 Michelin starsRating: 92. In the latest edition of the Michelin guide for Spain and Portugal, Restaurante Lasarte ("Lasarte") in Barcelona was awarded three Michelin stars, taking the total number of three-star restaurants in Spain to nine. Lasarte, part of the Martin Berasategui restaurant group, opened its doors in 2006. Chef de Cuisine at Lasarte is Paolo Casagrande (b. 1979), who has worked together with Mari... Category: Restaurants - Subcategories: 3 stars, Spain - 21-03-2017READ MORE .jpg) Disfrutar in Barcelona - 1 Michelin starRating: 92. Molecular gastronomy has got a bad rep in recent years, mainly because a lot of people associate this type of cuisine with foams, gels and snow. Three important but often misunderstood technical innovations that sadly went from being ground-breaking and having a real purpose on the plate, to being overused and, even worse, often misused and ending up as an obligatory gimmick. Luckily there's s... Category: Restaurants - Subcategory Spain - Barcelona - 13-03-2017READ MORE  Le Bernardin in New York City - 3 Michelin starsRating: 92.
Though it initially originated in France, Le Bernardin has been a permanent fixture on the New York fine dining scene for more than three decades now. The restaurant, originally named Le Moines de St. Bernardin, was established in Paris in 1972 by chef Gilbert Le Coze and his sister Maguy Le Coze. When the duo moved the restaurant to New York City in 1986 it was renamed to "Le Bernardi... Category: Menuknop 1 - Subcategories: 3 stars, U.S.A. - 23-02-2017READ MORE  Hedone in London - 1 Michelin starRating: 92.
Let me start with a little introduction of Hedone - after all it's been more than four years since my last visit. Hedone is the restaurant of chef-patron Mikael Jonsson (b. 1966), who had previously had a successful career as a corporate lawyer in Sweden. In the years before opening his own restaurant he was well-known and respected for his foodblog Gastroville (2005-2011, now defunct).... Category: Restaurants - Subcategory UK - London - 02-02-2017READ MORE |
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