David Kinch, chef and owner of the three-Michelin star Manresa restaurant in Northern California, is the inaugural guest chef at chef Mauro Colagreco’s 10th anniversary celebration of Mirazur restaurant on Friday May 27. He will be the first of a list of ten illustrious chefs to cook at the restaurant throughout the year. Kinch brings the famed contemporary California … [Read more...]
WY welcomes Isabelle Arpin as new chef at the Mercedes House in Brussels
Isabelle Arpin, the Michelin star chef of restaurant Alexandre in Brussels (which also received 16 of 20 from Gault&Millau) will be taking over the kitchen of WY (Welcome You) at the Mercedes House in the Sablon area of Brussels. The French chef, who succeeded Alexandre Dionisio at Alexandre when he moved to La Villa in the Sky has already started work on the … [Read more...]
Alain Passard is Opinionated about Dining’s top European choice for 2016
Alain Passard’s restaurant L’Arpege has been voted the number one restaurant in the newly released top 100 plus European restaurants 2016 list released by Opinionated about Dining on 23 May 2016. The chef who mentored some of the top chefs in the world including Pascal Barbot, Magnus Nilsson and Mauro Colagreco, is known for fostering the vegetable-oriented minimalist … [Read more...]
Weekly roundup of great reads on food and wine #77
Heston Blumenthal: from brink of bankruptcy to giant of gastronomy: "When I was 15, I went to a restaurant in Provence with my folks. I could hear the legs of lamb being carved and the clink of glasses, I could smell the lavender. The waiters’ feet crunched on the gravel and the crickets sang. I went into a multi-sensory wonderland, and I was hooked.” It was this moment, 35 … [Read more...]
Jock Zonfrillo: A 16 year old journey to discover the taste and origins of Australian cuisine
A trip by Scottish chef Jock Zonfrillo to Australia changed his life and the fate of Australia's indigenous cuisine. He was on a sabbatical from Restaurant Marco Pierre White that won a third Michelin star but that trip to Sydney was the turning point to an amazing journey of discovery. "I went back to Europe after this trip and kept thinking and thinking and asking myself … [Read more...]
