When Ana Ros, the Slovenian chef of Hisa Franko cooked at Christophe Hardiquest’s Bon Bon earlier this month she brought dishes with very bold flavours to reflect her style of cooking. “This is my character. I am very explosive. I cannot say that 100 per cent of my dishes are like this but 70 per cent of our dishes are very intense. They call me thunderstorm and I can be … [Read more...]
Archives for July 2018
Matthieu Beudaert: “Tasting menus are dead, we want gastronomic freedom”
Chef Matthieu Beudaert, a former art historian turned chef and his wife Sofie Delbeke have announced that they have decided to close their fine-dining restaurant Table d’Amis and gastro bar Gust to reopen in a more casual style a new restaurant called Beudaert. The decision comes a few weeks after the 9th anniversary of the opening of the restaurant in the Belgian city of … [Read more...]
Nick Bril: “People want to dine in a fine dining restaurant but don’t want to dine in finesse”
Holidays are meant to calm you down and relax you before you are ready to face the daily grind again. And as many people in high stress positions know, that feeling of relaxation can immediately turn sour on return to work. Chef Nick Bril, one of the top European chefs who runs The Jane in Antwerp faced just that last weekend after he returned back to work from a deserved … [Read more...]
Gelinaz! to return with events in Los Angeles, Berlin and an Asia shuffle
GELINAZ! is set to return before the end of the year in Los Angeles with an event Vespertine plays Gelinaz! A series of events is currently being planned for 2019 including ones in Berlin and a shuffle in Asia. Just under a year after the highly successful Gelinaz! does Upper Austria at the Muhltalhof, Andrea Petrini one of the co-curators of the chef collective together with … [Read more...]
Second NEU dinner in Berlin to feature Will Goldfarb with René Frank
The second NEU Dinners will welcome Will Goldfarb, fresh from the latest season of Chef's Table of restaurant Room 4 Dessert in Ubud, Bali to cook one dinner in Berlin with René Frank from CODA in Neukölln. The dinner takes place in Berlin on Sunday 29 July from 7pm. The second edition of Berlin's most exclusive dinner series united two of the most recognised and … [Read more...]
