3 Belgian restaurants in top 100 Opinionated about Dining has released the list of Top 100 Classical and Heritage Restaurants in the World. Michel Bras has won the top place with his restaurant Toya in the Japanese island of Hokkaido. French chefs have taken all the top five places of this newly released list, the first time Opinionated about Dining has classified the top … [Read more...]
Archives for 2016
Kobe Desramaults (In de Wulf): ‘Adapt, create, evolve’
Kobe Desramaults, chef of restaurant In De Wulf, Dranouter, has a credo which he likes to use in his kitchen. "Adapt, create and evolve." And that is what he seems to be doing after his shock decision to close the world famous restaurant in December 2016. He tells Food and Wine Gazette that he had reached a point where he needed to decide whether to buy the property from his … [Read more...]
Weekly roundup of great reads on food and wine #74
You can buy a cheap chicken today, but we all pay for it in the long run: Have you ever asked yourself why an everyday “value” chicken can now be cheaper, pound for pound, than bread? Cheap chicken has become the “healthy” meat of choice for most shoppers and sales are booming, up 20% since 2000 in the UK. But is it really either cheap or healthy? Enigma chef Frantzen to open … [Read more...]
Chef’s table trailer released: It’s not about food, it’s about something more
Netflix has released the official trailer for Chef's Table Season 2 and the season promises to be as mouth-watering as the first. Just watching the trailer makes you want to sit down and binge watch. Unfortunately for food enthusiasts, they will have to wait till 27 May for the new season to be released. Using stunning visuals and in-depth interviews with chefs from various … [Read more...]
Father and son Eric and Tristan Martin work in symphony at Maison Lemonnier
Father and son Eric and Tristan Martin are passionate about food, wine and the region they live in. It is therefore no wonder that they work together in an idyllic setting in Lavaux-Ste-Anne in the Belgian Ardennes where they run a hotel and restaurant which has been open for 10 years. Eric has been cooking for more than 25 years while his son Tristan who studied at the Paul … [Read more...]
