The most famous restaurants in the world.
When planning a trip, people often think about the question of where to eat. After all, you want to visit the sights and gain impressions, and not cook. Wealthy people who are going to go to Moscow may be interested in the top 10 most expensive restaurants in Moscow. When creating this article, we focused on the average amount that visitors usually spend in the establishments described below.
10 Tommy D Lounge Bar
The average bill in this restaurant is 3000 rubles. "Tommy D Lounge Bar" is located at: Moscow, Tretyakovskiy pr-d, 1. By visiting this restaurant, you can taste dishes from a variety of cuisines: Russian, Japanese, Mediterranean, Italian, French, Scandinavian, Belgian and many others, and also author's cuisine. Jazz evenings are sometimes held in this restaurant: then quite famous musicians arrange their performances in it. On such evenings, if you like such a genre of music as jazz, you can not only enjoy the taste of dishes, but also listen to pleasant music.
9 Sirena
The average bill in the Sirena restaurant is 3,500 rubles. This institution is located at the address: Moscow, Bolshaya Spasskaya st., 15. In addition to delicious food, visitors may be interested in a bar. Banquets are sometimes held in this restaurant. Visitors who like to surf the Internet will be pleased with the wi-fi available in Sirena.
8 Bolshoi
The average account in this institution is 3500 rubles. This restaurant is located at the address: Moscow, st. Petrovka, 3/6, building 2. Visitors are invited to choose dishes from Russian or French cuisine.
7 Turandot
The average bill in this restaurant is 3500 rubles. This establishment is located at: Moscow, Tverskoy Boulevard, 26, building 3. In this restaurant you can taste dishes from various cuisines: European, Japanese, Chinese or Asian cuisine. Turandot opened in 2005 and surprises visitors with its interior. The delightful design of the restaurant combines the echoes of luxurious palaces, sophisticated interiors of the East and amazing elements of high-tech style.
6 MEGU
The average account in this institution is 4000 rubles. This restaurant is located at the address: Moscow, Novinsky Boulevard, 8, building 2. Japanese cuisine is served at the MEGU restaurant. The menu contains a map of Japan, on which the places where this or that product originated are marked. The dishes for this restaurant are made using ancient technology.
5 Pacha Moscow
The average bill in this restaurant is 4000 rubles. This institution is located at the address: Moscow, st. Nikolskaya, 10. In "Pacha Moscow" you can taste dishes from European and Italian cuisine. The interior of this institution is decorated in the style of Pop-art of the 60s. The large screens located in this restaurant give it a somewhat fantastic feel. The pleasant food experience is complemented by good music from well-known DJs.
4 Angelo (Angelo)
The average account in this institution is 4000 rubles. This restaurant is located at: Moscow, 60th anniversary of October, pr-t, d. 5, bldg. 3. In this restaurant, you can order Italian or Japanese cuisine. Visitors can order drinks at the bar. There is a hookah. This restaurant offers karaoke. Sometimes banquets are held in this institution.
3 sixty
The average bill in this restaurant is 4000 rubles. "Sixty" is located at: Moscow, Presnenskaya nab., 12 (Moscow City, Federation Tower). Visiting this institution, you can taste dishes of various cuisines: Russian, Italian, French or Asian cuisine. Sixty Restaurant is located on the 62nd floor. Enjoying the delicious taste of dishes, visitors to this establishment can admire the beauty of the city from a height of over 500 m.
2 Baccarat Crystal Room
The average account in this institution is 5000 rubles. This restaurant is located at: Moscow, Nikolskaya st., 21. In "Baccarat Crystal Room" you can order dishes from various cuisines: European, French or author's cuisine. Visitors who like to enjoy good music while eating will enjoy live music.
1 bistrot
The average bill in this restaurant is 6,000 rubles. This establishment is located at: Moscow, B. Savvinsky per., 12, building 2. At Bistrot, visitors can taste dishes related to Italian cuisine. The interior of this establishment seems to take visitors to an old house. Just a few minutes walk from the restaurant "Bistrot" - and you can stroll along the embankment of the Moscow River.
The exquisite taste of expensive dishes will be remembered for a long time by visitors of the above restaurants.
For some people, a trip is not so much an acquaintance with the country as with the way of life of local people, their way of life, cuisine and history. Therefore, it is not surprising that gastronomic tours are gaining more and more popularity every year. Which countries have the best restaurants? And is there one that deserves the title of the most "delicious" in the world?
Famous restaurants in London
This city is the world capital of high-end catering establishments. Hakkasan Hanway Place is a particularly popular restaurant, serving only authentic Chinese cuisine, such as Peking Duck with Caviar. Chef Tong Chee Hwi loves to delight his guests with personal culinary delights. The restaurant's menu also includes a variety of desserts and drinks, including vintage wines. The interior deserves special attention: these are rooms permeated through with the culture of the East, which is expressed in carved wooden screens made of black oak, antique figurines covered with gold, and other decorative elements. Almost all people in the reviews about the institution put the mark "excellent".
Also included in their list is Sketch Lecture Room and Library. This Art Deco masterpiece is nestled in the former salon of Christian Dior. The restaurant's menu includes European and French cuisines, as well as a large wine list. Reviews from the restaurant are positive, however, some visitors note excessive pathos in the interior design.
The best restaurants in Italy
First of all, you should pay attention to the institution in the city of Modena, which is called Osteria Franciscana. The owner, who is also the chef, with his golden hands produces something that no gourmet in the world can refuse. He puts the maximum of his imagination into the cooking process, likes to experiment and create real works of art from products. The interior of the establishment is the simplest and most unremarkable, but they do not like it at all for the design style.
Another highly rated Italian restaurant is Piazza Duomo in Alba. The owner of the establishment is also the chef, but he has his own team. Together they prepare the most delicious dishes that will satisfy the desires of the most demanding gourmet. The restaurant has a pleasant atmosphere created by modern designers. On the ceiling is a lovely fresco depicting vine leaves. The menu is quite varied: there are fish, mushrooms, and seafood. People who have been there write in reviews that this restaurant is very "warm" and it seems that you are at home. They also note that the dishes in this institution are a paradise for a gourmet.
The most "delicious" Spanish restaurants
According to TripAdvizor, Martin Berasategui in San Sebastian is the best restaurant in the world! Such an assessment was given to him by the people who dined there. The "chip" of the establishment is that the chef and his team prepare dishes that cannot be found anywhere else on the planet Earth. Unless it's Martin Berasategui in another country. Martin, the owner of the restaurant, has designed the rooms simply but tastefully, making them look very elegant. The menu is varied, it probably has everything, even monkfish liver and stewed tripe. But most of all, the way the dish is served is a real work of art. Visitors say that dinner here is not cheap, but it's worth it.
But the best restaurants in Spain do not end there. According to another publication, El Celler de Can Roca in Girona deserves the title of the first in the world. The establishment is run by three brothers who have merged experimental presentation of dishes and avant-garde Spanish cuisine, plus 3 Michelin stars, and the 40-year-old restaurant deserves to be called the best in the world. The modern interior, a huge wine list and a wide variety of goodies make visitors stay longer. A visit to such an institution will also cost a tidy sum, but it will be remembered for a lifetime.
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According to the same TripAdvizor service, Maison Lameloise in Shanyi occupies the third place in the ranking of "Best Restaurant in the World". The institution is located in the hotel of the same name and has 3 Michelin stars. Vacationers write that this restaurant allows you not only to relax, but to do it with taste, because even the most sophisticated gourmet will rate the dishes served here at “5”.
Another owner of three is also popular - Guy Savoy. This one is notable for the fact that the menu changes every season. Chef Guy Savoye has designed his establishment in a contemporary style that predominantly uses white and brown. Specialties are artichoke soup with truffles and puff brioche with mushrooms, sea bass baked with scales in a creamy truffle sauce, and rhubarb ice cream with flowers in vanilla sauce. In the reviews, many vacationers rate the restaurant with the highest score.
Gastronomic tour of Russia: which institution deserves the title of the best?
This, of course, is not, but the opportunity to be above everyone else in the country must also be earned. This title was awarded to the institution "Pushkin", which is located in the 1800s with ease moving visitors. A well thought-out interior made in the style of Pushkin's era, children's performances, live music and many traditional Russian dishes prepared according to noble recipes make this place a favorite among many Muscovites and guests of the capital.
The only and best restaurant in the world - is there such a thing?
It is difficult to name such an institution, because there is no unified system for assessing a place by consumers. And there are a lot of other publications, and they all determine the rating according to their own rules. For example, restaurateurs and gastronomic critics made their list - the top 10, which was published in the British magazine The Restaurant Magazine:
- The first place was given to the Spanish institution El Celler de Can Roca in Girona.
- The honorable second line is occupied by the Italian restaurant Osteria Franciscana in Modena.
- Noma - Copenhagen.
- Central Restaurant - Lima.
- Eleven Madison Park - New York.
- Mugaritz - San Sebastian.
- Dinner by Heston Blumenthal - London.
- Narisawa - Tokyo.
- D.O.M. - Sao Paulo.
- Gaggan - Bangkok.
It's so interesting in every city, in any country to visit restaurants and taste dishes from famous and simply talented chefs. So why not make your own ranking of the best restaurants in the world?
The British magazine The Restaurant Magazine for chefs, restaurateurs and other catering professionals presented the annual top 50 best restaurants in the world. There is also a representative of Russia in the rating, this is the Moscow institution White Rabbit (18th line). And we present to you the top ten gourmet restaurants selected by an international expert jury.
The restaurant is located under the shadow of the mountains in a sleepy village near San Sebastian. In an old stone building, you will be served huge juicy Palamos prawns, fresh buffalo mozzarella and chorizo sausage. The chef of the restaurant pays special attention to frying on an open fire. Dreamed of smoked ice cream with a hint of smoke? At Asador Etxebarri, dreams come true.
9. Steirereck, Vienna, Austria
From the outside, the restaurant building resembles a huge glass cube. And inside you will find an interesting combination of wood, concrete and starched white tablecloths. A table must be reserved three weeks in advance. The portions are small, but in between they bring “compliments from the chef” to visitors. No one leaves Steirereck hungry.
8. Narisawa, Tokyo, Japan
Almost all the ingredients used in this restaurant are purely Japanese. The menu includes dishes according to the environment and the season, so dining at Narisawa is a journey into Japanese seasonality and culture. The restaurant serves fine Japanese wines such as Pinot Noir and Riesling Lion.
7. Mugaritz, San Sebastian, Spain
Already the second, but not the last "Spaniard" in the ranking of the best restaurants in 2016. There are 20 different dishes on the menu. Everything in this restaurant is aimed at surprising and entertaining customers, so get ready to endure a whole cooking show that lasts 3-4 hours and is performed at once for all tables.
6. Mirazur, Menton, France
Could the top 10 best restaurants in the world do without the cuisine of sunny France? The secret weapon of the restaurant is its own farm and a network of suppliers from the market in Ventimiglia, a rich source of delicious vegetables and fresh seafood. The signature dish is oysters with tapioca, pear and shallot cream.
5. Noma, Copenhagen, Denmark
Simple-named dishes like apples and lemon thyme, kale and whitecurrant leaves, and new Danish potatoes provide a richness of flavor and texture you've never experienced before. If you want to visit this restaurant, then hurry up: at the end of 2016, the owner plans to close it and open it as a suburban farm.
4. Central, Lima, Peru
Guests of the restaurant are offered a whole culinary expedition through the ecosystem of Peru, from the Amazon to the Pacific coast. The tasting of the Central menu begins with dishes whose components are found at around 20 meters below sea level. And ends with dishes with ingredients growing up to 4100 meters above the ground. Peruvian jungle, mountains, desert and sea - decide which of the local flora you want to taste.
3. Eleven Madison Park, New York, USA
The chef at this restaurant often improvises with food, creating whimsical, personalized dishes. In the reviews, visitors note very hospitable and polite staff. The main dish of the establishment is dry-aged finger lakes duck with its own sauce, tree fungus and pear. One problem is small portions, not every Russian person can eat them.
2. El Celler De Can Roca, Girona, Spain
The leader of the restaurant rating in 2015. This restaurant, owned by the three Roca brothers, boasts a wine cellar with 50,000 bottles, birch trees growing behind glass, and a menu of dishes from various cuisines of the world. If Asador Etxebarri serves smoked ice cream, here you can try asparagus ice cream and olive ice cream. It is made on a real olive tree in a pot.
1. Osteria Francescana, Modena, Italy
This sophisticated restaurant has only 12 tables and all dishes are unique. The portions are small, but people go to Osteria Francescana to join the world of haute cuisine, and not just fill their stomachs. The wines served in the establishment are made in small Italian wineries especially for the restaurant.
Top 50 Best Restaurants in the World (Infographic)
Eat to live, or eat to wonder. We present to your attention the top unique and unusual restaurants, bars and cafes in the world.
Unusual restaurants of the world
1. "Hitlers' Cross" ("Hitler's Cross")
Mumbai, India
Inside this neo-Nazi restaurant, everything is decorated with a swastika. Owner Puneet Sublock says that before that, he didn’t really think about the name and chose this only to attract visitors, because the menu is mainly Italian cuisine, and not at the cheapest price. Name restaurant many did not like it, because now it is simply called "Cross".
2. "Dans le Noir" ("In the dark")
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Guests of this restaurant dine in complete darkness. You can taste a meal in the dark in several world restaurants, in major metropolitan areas. Before entering the hall, visitors leave in the wardrobe all items that glow in the dark. Mobile phones are no exception. Only then the waiter escorts customers to the table. In the restaurant you will be left only with yourself and with your sense of taste and smell.
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3. "Eternity"
Truskavets, Ukraine
A coffin restaurant called "Eternity" offers dinner in the Ukrainian city of Truskavets. The exterior of the building and the interior are completely connected with the funeral theme. There are many funeral candles on the tables and on the walls. There are coffins everywhere. The menu offers dishes such as "9th day" or "40th day"; a dish called "Meet me in Paradise" is served as a hot dish. It should be noted that the restaurant turned out to be quite popular even for wedding celebrations.
4. Dinner In The Sky
Brussels, Belgium
For those who are tired of noise, smoking and hustle in the halls, we suggest visiting restaurant"Dinner in Heaven" The name speaks for itself. A special table that is lifted into the air by a powerful crane can become another place for a lunch break or an unusual date. True, getting a fallen spoon will be problematic. The institution is located in Belgium, but if there is a desire and means, the organizers are ready to bring it to anywhere in the world.
5. The Hobbit House
Manila, Philippines
The only restaurant in the world where only dwarfs work, but the owners and staff call themselves exclusively hobbits. The institution is located in the capital of the Philippines, so national dishes and live ethnic music are included.
6. Nyotaimori
Japan
In many restaurants in the Land of the Rising Sun, food is traditionally served on a naked human body. This custom was called "Nyotaimori". Girls are specially prepared for such work: at the first stage, the entire hairline is removed from the body, and after that the girl takes a bath using a special odorless soap, and at the end she is doused with cool water. Before serving, the body of a girl (or a guy) must acquire the right temperature for serving dishes (mostly sushi). Also, girls, like real plates, should be able to lie still for several hours. They are also specially trained for this.
Unique cafes
7. "Christian Cafe" ("Christian Cafe")
Shinjuku, Japan
The interior of this cafe resembles a Christian temple. There is an iconostasis, a cross and many statues. The institution often hosts noisy parties, so drinking cocktails, including alcoholic ones, is not uncommon here, but drunken brawls have not yet happened in the Christian cafe.
8. "Modern Toilet" ("Modern toilet")
Taiwan
An institution with the proud name "Modern" for those people whose appetite is difficult to spoil with anything, because food is served here in special toilet-shaped plates, drinks in plastic containers for collecting tests. Visitors to the cafe sit on toilet chairs, under the transparent tables of the establishment there are ordinary sinks. All this is done, according to the manager, to refresh the taste sensations of visitors and, of course, to shock.
9. The Owl Cafe
Japan
You won’t surprise anyone with cat cafes in Japan, so quite exotic establishments began to appear in the country. Owl theme is in fashion now. In a standard cafe, they keep 20-30 owls, with which visitors are allowed to communicate and pick up. The Japanese love to drink their usual tea or coffee in the company of such cute, but still predatory and wild birds. The cafe is usually darkened, because owls are nocturnal birds and their eyes are not used to bright daylight. In these cafes, visitors can buy owl-themed souvenirs, which, by the way, are very popular. And long queues line up at the cafe every day, but even the lucky ones who got inside are given only 1 hour to “date” with the owls. But it's worth it!
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10. "Chongqing"
China
In China, an unusual summer cafe has opened right on the shallow water of the local river. The institution has managed to gain great popularity. To the question " How much does it cost to open a cafe in a place like this?" the organizers, perhaps, will answer that not much, because they saved a lot on the air conditioning system. Also, the cafe is equipped with the usual cheap plastic chairs and tables. The depth of the river at the location of the cafe is only about 1 cm. The long summer here is known for its high temperatures and high humidity, so the cafe on the river makes it possible to get cool.
Original bars from around the world
11. The Brandy Library
New York, USA
To the question "How to get to the library?" the answer "What can be a library at three in the morning" will not be relevant. After all, this drinking establishment is an intellectual bar. They read labels here, and they teach not new words at all, but the names of drinks. The interior of the bar, as the name already implies, is made in the style of a library, but on the shelves there are by no means books, but more than 900 brands of brandy, rum, cognac and liquor. Jazz evenings complete the picture, which, together with the general atmosphere, immerse visitors in the atmosphere of old New York. This bar has become the most popular among tourists visiting.
12. Big Baobab Pub
Sunland Farm, Limpopo Province, South Africa
Who said that on opening your own bar need a lot of money? Here in Africa they just found the largest tree in the world and converted it for tourists into a bar, which is now famous among tourists all over the world. In the bar, despite the unusual appearance, the interior is quite ordinary. The indigenous peoples of South Africa associate many legends with the baobab. The giant baobab from the province of Limpopo is as little as 6,000 years old and about 60 people can easily be there at the same time. The idea in such an unusual way came to a local businessman Van Herdens and in 1993 the bar received its first visitors. The choice of bar drinks is quite standard, the main one being beer. The advantage of this institution, located in the south of the hot continent, is that it always has a pleasant temperature (+22 C).
13. Dick's Last Resort
USA
This is a chain of bars and restaurants in the United States. The highlight of this establishment is the out-of-the-ordinary service. Here are collected all the boors, foul language and bullies, because only such people are hired at Dick's Last Resort. Neither the administrator nor the complaint book in this bar will help you. Insulting and humiliating visitors is one of the duties of the attendants.
14. Museum HR Giger Bar
Gruyere, Switzerland
Sometimes glamorous bars get so boring that you want to spend time in a place where there will really be something new and original. It was this principle that the sculptor and designer, the legendary artist Hans Rudolf Giger, adhered to, before how to open this bar. It was he who once created the concept of creatures and art design in Ridley Scott's film "Alien", and then founded the museum, where he exhibits his best work. But perhaps one of Giger's most impressive creations is the bar at the museum, opened in 2003. Every detail of the interior of the bar makes visitors feel like they are inside an alien ship from the movie "Alien" or just in another reality. The pub was chosen by eccentric personalities and just drinkers in unusual places, and in 2011 this bar won the title of the most original bar in Europe.
15. "The Clinic Bar" ("Clinic")
Singapore
Singaporeans offer tourists to visit an unusual hospital. A client with a sense of humor will easily imagine being sick. This is a world famous nightclub and bar-restaurant. The extravagant D. Hirst worked on the design and concept of the institution. Upon entering the bar, you will feel like you are in a morgue. Inside, instead of the usual places at the tables, you will see wards with beds and gauze curtains, and instead of chairs - wheelchairs; droppers instead of glasses, food in medical plates. Despite all this, there are enough people who want to relax in hospital style. After all these procedures, you can 100% feel like a healthy person.
Such are the excesses for gourmets. Travel and be amazed. Bon appetit!
Sources: YouTube: World's Best Bars, World's Top 10 Unique Restaurants, Owl Café Opens in Tokyo (News), China Business Idea: River Café
noma. Denmark
Copenhagen, Denmark
Kitchen: experimental Scandinavian
Hit: winter potatoes with fermented barley
Address and phone: Strandgade 93, 1401 Copenhagen, +45 3296 3297
Housed in a former warehouse on the docks in Copenhagen, Noma has been named World's Best Restaurant for the tenth time in the award's 12 years. After the institution won the title three times in a row (from 2010 to 2012), in its history came, according to chef René Redzepi, "a gastronomic midlife crisis." In 2012, Noma fell to second place, losing the lead to the Spanish El Celler de Can Roca, but a year later regained the title.
During the year, the restaurant has changed, somewhat moving away from too bold, intuitive experiments, it has become a little more conservative, but at the same time it has not lost its originality and has not lost its purely northern mood.
The style of Noma chef René Redzepi seems a little shocking to many, but those of the guests who can trust the local cuisine will definitely not be disappointed.
Up to 20 dishes can be sampled in one meal, served in tiny portions, and starters alone can discourage an unprepared guest: for example, fried reindeer moss with porcini mushrooms, crispy pork skin with blackcurrants, and fresh radishes that need to be plucked and eat without rinsing, directly from the pot in which it is served, because the earth in the pot is also edible. Main courses include gooseberry oysters served on chilled stones, sea urchin with dill-cucumber sauce and chestnuts with herring roe, walnuts and rye, among others.
At the beginning of 2015, Redtsepy and his team are planning to take the restaurant by ship to Japan for two months in order to feel the philosophy of local cuisine, which is close to them.
El Celler de Can Roca, Spain
Girona, Spain
Kitchen: modern spanish
Hit: cherry soup with tuna and chocolate cigarettes with vanilla ice cream and flavor of Partagas No. 5
Address and phone: Can Sunyer 48, 17007 Girona, +34 972 22 21 57
El Celler de Can Roca was opened by Catalan brothers Josep and Joan Roca in 1986 and was located next to their parents' restaurant, a eatery where Girona's working-class people went. In 2007, the brothers moved into a new location, which gave them the opportunity to implement several interior ideas that define the current style and atmosphere of the restaurant. Now there are three gardens on the territory of El Celler de Can Roca, the main one has the shape of a triangle, and on each table in the dining room there are three stones.
Three is the number one number for El Celler de Can Roca, as experienced chef Joan and wine connoisseur Josep were recently joined by their younger brother Jordi, who has made his own career as a pastry chef and now surprises the family restaurant's guests with intricate desserts like Mojito cookies and chocolate cigarettes.
The cuisine of El Celler de Can Roca, which topped the list of the best restaurants in the world last year, is a combination of Catalan classics and the latest gastronomic trends, skillfully balancing on the verge of tradition and experimentation. Each trip here is a culinary journey of 14 dishes prepared with amazing care and strict adherence to the recipe, the emotional involvement of the client in the process, the involvement of his feelings, emotions, memory. Some dishes in El Celler de Can Roca are real works of art: for example, sea anemone salad, escabeche with cucumbers and seaweed or cherry soup with tuna, and there are dishes that are quite simple, familiar and loved by most of the inhabitants of Girona - this is how a harmonious balance is created, attracting gourmets from all over the world to the restaurant.
Osteria Francescana, Italy
Modena, Italy
Kitchen: modern italian
Hit:“Five generations of Parmigiano Reggiano cheese in different textures and temperatures"
Address and phone: Via Stella 22, 41121 Modena, +39 59 210 118
For the second year in a row, Osteria Francescana ranks third in the ranking, representing one of the main gastronomic countries. Italy rarely appears in such rankings. Most Italians are skeptical about modern technology in cooking. But Osteria Francescana chef Massimo Botura is a rare example of how you can get ahead of fashion without changing traditions. In his restaurant, both conservatives and those who are looking for gastronomic revelations feel equally comfortable.
Massimo Botur's style - sparkling, avant-garde, sometimes defiantly eccentric - is distinguished by perfect execution and impeccable Italian taste.
The restaurant menu is divided into three categories:
The evolution of traditions. Dishes from the Emilia-Romagna region, with little or no gastronomic experimentation, such as tagliatelle with ragout, bollito misto, pumpkin ravioli or cappuccino with traditional balsamic vinegar from Modena.
Modern classics - a section that consistently provides the restaurant with a flow of Italian guests, the game and provocation are present only in the names: “Eel floating on the Po River”, “Snails underground”, “All the languages of the world” and “Potato waiting for the moment to become a truffle."
Sensations. "Deconstruction" of traditional recipes, avant-garde dishes created in completely new ways, such as "camouflage": foie gras powdered with dried rabbit blood, chestnuts and several types of aromatic herbs, creating a sense of "forest disguise" of the dish.
First-time visitors to the restaurant should order at least one item from each category in order to truly appreciate the breadth of the range of modern Italian cuisine.
Eleven Madison Park, USA
New York, USA
Kitchen: contemporary French cooked with New York chic
Hit: roast duck with honey and lavender
Address and phone: 11 Madison Avenue, New York, +1 212 889 0905
Eleven Madison Park is located in the financial center of New York, on the first floor of the New York's Credit Suisse building. Chef Daniel Humm and co-owner Will Gidara have created an Art Deco interior with hardwood floors and oversized display windows that takes guests back to the 1920s and gives classic American cuisine a whole new twist. This restaurant is the best remedy for banality, everything here is interesting, not banal and a little bit different. For example, lunch begins with the fact that from a deck of cards laid out on a tray of a waiter, with the names of ingredients written on them, the composition from which your menu will be built is selected. Here you should try shrimp roll, rustic eggs with parmesan foam, gnocchi with ricotta and goat milk, lobster and be sure to order carrot tartare - a simple, in fact, dish, the serving of which turns into a whole spectacle. First, the waiter sets up a meat grinder right on the table, into which he dips two fresh carrots. As they scroll, the guest is invited to choose from a dozen seasonings, including quail egg yolks, peeled horseradish, smoked bluefin tuna or mustard oil, thus creating their own tartare.
According to the 900 experts who contributed to the list, Eleven Madison Park restaurant's quality of service and interior is the best in North America and one of the best in the world.
Dinner by Heston Blumenthal, UK
London, Great Britain
Kitchen: reimagined historical British
best dish: crab roll (1714): crab, cucumbers, pickled lemons, sea purslane and smoked caviar
Address and phone: Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park 66 Knightsbridge, London,
44 207 201 3833
Innovator, experimenter and avant-garde, Heston Blumenthal, owner of The Fat Duck, a rustic molecular restaurant, opened his second restaurant, Dinner, at London's Mandarin Oriental Hotel in 2011.
Led by Blumenthal's loyal assistant chef Ashley Palmer-Watts, Dinner is a gastronomic reenactment of British history. For example, in the kitchen, separated from the hall by glass walls, there is a block system for roasting on a spit, similar to the one that has been used for centuries at the royal court.
Dishes, some of which date back to the 12th century, are prepared with modern ingredients and the latest gastronomic techniques, making every meal a theatrical performance.
Here you should try the Bohemian Pie, the recipe of which is taken from the book by Agnes Marshall Larger Cookery Book of Extra Recipes 1891. An ordinary lemon cake with chocolate was turned into a modern dessert, done tactfully, clearly and almost imperceptibly - soaking a chocolate sponge cake with the juice of a Japanese yuzu lemon, adding grapefruit jam, chocolate mousse and honey ice cream.
Spain
San Sebastian, Spain
Kitchen: technoemotional spanish
Hit: shaved ice with deep sea red shrimp sauce
Address and phone: Aldura Aldea 20, 20100 Errenteria, Gipuzkoa, +34 943 52 24 55
One of Mugaritz's most famous dishes is "edible stones", which are almost indistinguishably disguised as tender potatoes with "sand" made from bread crumbs and charcoal grilled eggplant. To turn potatoes into stone, Mugaritz cooks use white clay, lactose, cuttlefish ink and the same baked eggplant. At the same time, a real stone may be in the plate among the potatoes. Chef Andoni Luis Aduritz is a hoaxer and magician who loves to surprise and even shock each of his guests. Marzipans are disguised as laundry soap, fish as pork, and tomatoes, sweet in taste, are served with raspberry-looking ice cream, which, in turn, tastes like tomatoes.
D.O.M, Brazil
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Kitchen: contemporary brazilian/amazonian
Hit: fresh palm heart with scallops and coral sauce
Address and phone: Rua Barão de Capanema, 549 Jardins, São Paulo,
55 11 3088 0761
Before Alex Atala opened the restaurant D.O.M (the acronym stands for Deus Optimus Maximus - God Most Gracious and Greatest), French and Italian dishes were at the heart of haute cuisine. Now, and this happened not without the personal participation of Atala, South American recipes are gradually penetrating into the highest gastronomic society.
Alex Atala is not just a chef, he is a botanist and historian who has taken part in expeditions to the Amazon rainforest just to find and research new ingredients for his menu. Attention to detail, scrupulousness in serving are the hallmarks of Atala's bright solutions, which use many traditional techniques.
Spain
San Sebastian, Spain
Kitchen: modern Basque
Hit: squid with onion and lemon sauce
Address and phone: Avenida Alcalde Elosegui 273 20015, San Sebastián, +34 943 27 84 65
The restaurant on this site was opened by the ancestors of the current chef Juan Marie Arzak back in 1897, so the main focus is on rethinking traditional Basque recipes. Respect for traditions makes Arzak a place of constant visits for local gourmets, despite the fact that the interior here is not at all rustic (mirrors, black and white walls). Arzak was among the first chefs in the world, opened his own research laboratory and began to apply scientific developments in cooking. He is the author of the term "techno-emotional cuisine" and constantly invents new technologies for smell and taste extraction. One of his widely used methods is freeze-drying (dehydration of the product by freezing), with which he achieves the maximum concentration of taste. For example, whiting fish frozen in this way is ground into powder, which is sprinkled with fresh whiting instead of salt and spices during cooking.
Chicago, USA
Kitchen: avant-garde
Hit: lily bulbs with apple blossoms
Address and phone: 1723 North Halsted, Chicago, Illinois + 1 312 867 0110
"Alinea is not a restaurant... at least not in the conventional sense" - such a statement greets visitors to the website of the Alinea restaurant, located in Lincoln Park in Chicago. Since opening in 2005, owner Grant Akatz and chef Mike Bagail have been experimenting with food. In fact, the dishes in Alinea are works of modern art that you can eat, paintings, installations and performances with products made up beyond recognition in the lead role. Steaming green scallop with a citrus aroma on a plate, consisting of 14 different textures. Or a living picture of crab, pumpkin flower, saffron and cardamom. Veal cheeks, lapsang souchong, pine needles and blueberries, gracefully scattered on the table - and it is not immediately clear where what is; destroying the completeness of this composition with a banal fork would be necessary (after all, a restaurant), but blasphemy. A green apple for a snack is served here in the form of a balloon filled with helium (you gnaw a hole, draw in the helium and speak in a funny voice), and small tourist fires are made from dried parsnips for a cozy burning right in the middle of the table.
The Ledbury, United Kingdom
London, Great Britain
Kitchen: modern french
Hit: roe deer fillet baked in Douglas fir with white beets, black currants and smoked bone marrow
Address and phone: 127 Ledbury Road, Notting Hill, London +44 207 792 9090
The main goal of The Ledbury chef, Australian Bret Graham, is not to shock the visitor with the appearance of dishes and an unusual choice of ingredients (a practice that is normal for a significant part of gastronomic restaurants), but to give him maximum pleasure. The restaurant, opened in 2005, is located in West London, next to the prestigious Notting Hill district, its interior is full of natural wood, glass and light, high ceilings and large mirrors in the dining room. Adhering to the traditions of modern French cuisine, Graham introduces British and Pacific influences into it. The restaurant tries to use local products, buying herbs, vegetables and root vegetables from small farms in Britain.
France
Menton, France
Kitchen: modern french
Hit: deep sea red prawns with asparagus, borage and wild garlic flowers
Address and phone: 30 Avenue Aristide Briand 06500 Menton, +33 4 92 41 86 86
The Mirazur restaurant is lucky to have a location: it is located on the French-Italian border, on the Côte d'Azur, in an orange-lemon grove overlooking the sea and the city descending to its coast, over which the Alps rise. Once Mirazur's chef, Argentinian Mauro Colagreco traveled around Europe by car, fell in love with this place at first sight and stayed. Kolagreco grows most of the fruits, vegetables and herbs in his own garden, he grows green onions, sage, absinthe, 40 varieties of tomatoes, broccoli, beets, carrots, watercress - a total of more than a hundred items. Every morning, Mirazur's international team of chefs, consisting of three Italians, two Argentines, a Japanese and a Mexican, gathers the harvest of the day, around which an uncomplicated, but tasty and natural menu is built. And as the main dishes, fish caught in the Mediterranean Sea is often used in the morning.
Vendome, Germany
Bergisch Gladbach, Cologne, Germany
Kitchen: modern german
Hit: Yin and Yang (foie gras and miso soup)
Address and phone: Grandhotel Schloss Bensberg Kadettenstrasse, 51429 Bergisch Gladbach, Cologne, +49 2204 42 906
The Vendôme restaurant is located in the Grandhotel Schloss Bensberg Kadettenstrasse with great views of the river and Cologne Cathedral. Joachim Wissler, the restaurant's chef, master of molecular cuisine, one of the founders of the New German Cuisine movement, creates modern dishes based on German culinary traditions. The Vendôme tasting menu includes 17 items, the interior of the restaurant is quite simple. Apparently, to emphasize the chef's craving for pure flavors and simple compositions.
Nahm, Thailand
Bangkok, Thailand
Kitchen: old thai
Hit: curried guinea fowl with ginger and basil
Address and phone: Metropolitan Hotel, 27 South Sathorn Road Bangkok +66 2 625 3388
Australian chef of the Nahm restaurant David Thompson is a true connoisseur of Thai cuisine, he has long studied the traditional recipes of the ancient capital of Siam - the city of Ayutthaya (on the site of which modern Bangkok is built). Like the recipes on offer here, the interior of the restaurant in the building of the Metropol Hotel in Bangkok resembles an ancient Siamese temple - with rough wooden tables and stone columns.
Narisawa, Japan
Tokyo, Japan
Kitchen: French dishes made with Japanese ingredients
Hit: fragrant broth "Inori"
Address and phone: Minami Ayoyma 2-6-15, Minato-ku, 107-0062 Tokyo, +81 3 5785 0799
In his youth, the Japanese chef of his signature restaurant Narisawa, Yoshiro Narisawa, often traveled to France, Switzerland and Italy, which, of course, affected his style. But Narisawa didn't just bring European recipes to Japan, he was able to find a way to combine classic French techniques with the finest Japanese ingredients. They say that to truly understand the art of Chef Narisawa, you need to come to a restaurant with a Japanese who can explain what exactly has changed in the traditional recipe.
The restaurant is small, only 18 guests fit in the dining room. There is only one meat dish on the menu, most of the dishes are prepared from fish. The only dish that uses rice is black rice bread.
Special attention is paid to bread here - many visitors to Narisawa recall with pleasure the process of making “forest bread”, which is baked right on the dining table. The bread is served as a sourdough with citrus flavor and Japanese pepper, which is placed in a warm container, rises and baked in a small stone bowl at 300 degrees. Butter with powdered dried olives is served with the finished bread with a pronounced tangerine flavor.
Central, Peru
Lima, Peru
Kitchen: Peruvian with international influence
Hit:"Extremely high above sea level": frozen potatoes, kushuro seaweed, roots of Amazonian selva plants - mullaka and paiko
Address and telephone: Calle Santa Isabel 376 Miraflores, Lima, +511 242 8515
Restaurant Central is located, as the name suggests, in the center of Lima. Its chef, Virgilio Martinez, is the custodian and modernizer of the culinary traditions of the Miraflores region of Peru. All the herbs, fruits and vegetables used in Central's cooking come from a garden located right outside the restaurant. The Pisco Sour cocktail (brandy, lemon juice, egg white and sugar) is prepared here with coca leaves, and the national dish tiraditos (Peruvian version of sashimi and carpaccio) is served with tiger milk (a mixture of lemon, lime, pepper and onion juice) is what , which Martinez calls "pacha mama" (Mother Nature). Martinez plans to open a Peruvian restaurant in London this summer.
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