With his three Michelin restaurant Les Prés d’Eugénie, the octogenarian chef Michel Guérard stands as one of the last iconic personas of the French nouvelle cuisine. Set in a remote Relais […]
La Frégate’s convenient location across the Seine river from the Louvre and just a few blocks away from Musée d’Orsay makes it a frequent dining spot on my visits to Paris. Authentic and honest […]
Semilla fills an authentic yet contemporarily-aligned french niche in Saint Germain created by the expats and tourists flocking into Cafe Flore, Brasserie Lipp et al. This millennial Parisian bistro has […]
Chez Davia is one of these rare family-owned restaurants today still handed down through generations. Born of Italian emigrants to the Riviera, first their daughter took over, and currently in […]
Les Trois Vallées is a popular ski area in the Northeast of France thus finding a good place to eat on the ski slopes is not too hard.
The name of the restaurant came from straw baskets (called Escourtins) used to keep ground olive paste after being crushed by a stone wheel. L’Escourtin restaurant is located in a former olive oil […]
The gourmet pursuits in Morocco stretch well beyond couscous, tajine and Moroccan mint tea. During my recent trip to Marrakech, I savoured the best of Moroccan cuisine and sniffed on […]
Here I sum up the best restaurants, dishes and desserts of 2018 that I cannot wait to return to in 2019. It is important, perhaps essential, to reflect on the […]
The chef Kristian Baumann formerly heading 108, a sister restaurant to Noma focused on new Nordic food, has opened a new – by his native Korea inspired venue Koan Copenhagen, […]
Frenchie embodies an old Parisian ambiance blended with modern international gastronomic fare rooted in its French history. The name of this culinary and vinous enterprise comes from a nickname given […]