As you prepare to pack your bags for your next holiday, hopefully in the coming days or weeks, take some time to research places to eat in the destination you are visiting. For as long as I can remember, I have planned holidays not only on the basis of the places I wanted to visit but also on the places that I wanted to eat, food markets I wanted to visit and food speciality … [Read more...]
Non-existent restaurant tops TripAdvisor list in Italian village
You find yourself in a city or village you are not familiar with and you have not really carried out any research so you take out your phone or tablet and try to look up reviews on a website like TripAdvisor or Yelp. You look for restaurants close to where you are and find that the best restaurant in the village is just 200 metres away. It has recently opened, has great reviews … [Read more...]
Eight reasons why we think the World’s 50 Best restaurants list may be in trouble
The influence the World's 50 Best restaurants has on the culinary world has been growing every year. But that influence seems to be coming at a price and that price is credibility. The criticism on the way that restaurants are judged has been there for many years but the noise is now growing louder. Over the past years, there were many judges who have quit because they did … [Read more...]
Prepaid meals arrive in restaurants in Europe and could revolutionise the way we eat – but will it work?
Are you ready to pay in advance for a restaurant meal just like you would do when going to a theatre performance, music concert or sports event? In September, when we wrote about Next, the Chicago based restaurant we asked a question whether such a system would work in Europe, given that this restaurant sold tickets in advance. Now, a few months later, the system called … [Read more...]
A year after the Osteria Francescana experience
At this time last year, I was eating a pizza with two dear friends in Modena. Hard to believe after a 12 course lunch at Massimo Bottura's Osteria Francescana a few hours earlier. It was an experience that I will always cherish and it is one of the reasons (though the story is much more complicated than that) why Food and Wine Gazette was born. We are still months away … [Read more...]
