World’s 50 best restaurants awards 2013
Attending the Worlds 50 best restaurants award ceremony is each time a special emotion. For me it was the second time, but I didn’t enjoy less than last year. It’s wonderful to meet all the worlds top chefs in one place, seeing their friendly interactions and feeling the excitement each time a name of the … Read more
A look back at 10 years of Worlds 50 best restaurants
The World’s 50 Best Restaurants List, sponsored by S.Pellegrino and Acqua Panna , is now in its 11th year. Dedicated to highlighting some of the best dining experiences on the planet the list has become one of the go to guides for new dining discovery. Rene Redzepi from the Noma restaurant in Copenhagen currently sits on top of The World’s 50 Best Restaurants … Read more
Lifetime achievement award winner 2013 is Alain Ducasse
Alain Ducasse has pushed the boundaries of excellence in cooking and the dining experience throughout his 30-year career in gastronomy. The Lifetime Achievement Award, sponsored by Diners Club International®, part of The World’s 50 Best Restaurants Awards 2013, acknowledges not only Ducasse’s reputation for innovative French cuisine but also his indisputable influence over today’s generation of chefs and restaurateurs around … Read more
A Taste Of Noma in London at Claridge’s
“We are delighted to welcome René Redzepi, head chef of Noma in Copenhagen to Claridge’s to create “A Taste Of Noma at Claridge’s”. Three time winner of best restaurant in the world at the ‘World’s 50 Best Restaurant Awards’ (2010, 2011 and 2012), Redzepi has sparked a cultural revolution with his focus on foraging and the reinterpretation … Read more
San Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2011
Yesterday S. Pellegrino released their fairly well-regarded annual list of the “World’s 50 Best Restaurants,” and for the second year in a row, René Redzepi’s Noma is on top. Two new restaurants made the top ten: Alex Attala’s D.O.M. in Sao Paolo, Brazil and Iñaki Azpitarte’s Le Chateaubriand is Paris. Making way for the newcomers in the top ten are Daniel Boulud’s New … Read more
Interview: Marjan Simčič, Simčič winery, Ceglo/Brda, Slovenia
The Simčič wines (attention – we are this time talking about Marjan Simčič, not Edi Simčič, who also creates excellent and well known wines!) are for sure between the best known Slovenian wines abroad. His often awarded wines from the Slovenian Brda region (part of the vineyards are also in Italian Collio) are known as … Read more
Noma’s René Redzepi and the Link Between Nature and the Plate
René Redzepi and his Copenhagen restaurant Noma have been catapulted into fame since being voted the World’s Best Restaurant in last year’s San Pellegrino awards. Known for using foraging techniques to find his produce, the chef is considered to be the founder of the Nordic Cuisine movement. The name of his restaurant is a … Read more
Taste of Noma
A plateful of milk skin with grass, flowers and herbs. Something most of you would go a long way to avoid. Especially at £27.50. But this was not any milk skin, it was René Redzepi milk skin. Redzepi is the genius who has wrested Nordic cuisine away from the Mediterranean influences of El Bulli and Pizza Express … Read more
Primož Lavrenčič and wine estate Burja, Vipava valley, Slovenia
Primož Lavrenčič is young but alredy well known producer of excellent wines from the Vipava valley. Winemaker with a clear vision of wine, which, for him, must be sophisticated, elegant and long – full of noble characteristics, which can already be found in his bottles. What has brought you into the world of wines? I … Read more
And God created … pardon: And chef created …
Photo: Michel Neven Every great chef knows it and every gourmet understands it: Base of every great meal are the great ingredients. That’s why the chefs don’t care only about the creations and preparations of the great plates but they also keep track of the local producers, educate them, collaborate with them and support them. … Read more
