Quest for the best

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World’s Ultimate Meal

The top ten restaurants in the world are anointed annually. In 2012 they were scattered across eight cities. Surely only a fool would embark on a quest to eat at all of them… It’s exacted a toll on both waistlines and mortgage, but in the name of research we have finally ticked them all off. […]

D.O.M

It was the last of the great meals. A destination in itself. After expending hard-to-justify amounts of time, cash, kilometres and kilograms in a vain quest to sample the best, we arrived in Sao Paulo. Our destination? D.O.M; currently ranked as the  fourth best restaurant in the world. Over the last few  years we’ve had […]

Eleven Madison Park

There are some terrific things to eat in New York. The challenge is squeezing them all in. I think I’ve found the solution. A few months ago Daniel Humm evolved the a la carte and degustation menus of his flagship restaurant on Madison Avenue into a 16 course food tour of the Big Apple; of […]

Faviken

Faviken is not a restaurant that you casually decide to go to on a Tuesday night. The location may have something to do with it. More than 600 km north of Stockholm it nudges up towards the Arctic Circle. Visiting this 12-seater restaurant on a 24,000-acre hunting property in Jämtland requires some planning. First, there’s […]

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World’s Best (a crazy quest)

Last night in London lots of the world food glitterati crowded into the Guildhall to eat canapes and drink champagne and celebrate themselves. It’s been referred to as the Golden Globes of Restaurants- perhaps for the questionable mechanics of the voting system (well explained by Cara here) but you can’t deny that the San Pellegrino […]