Entries from seikatsu tagged with 'food'
Le Gavroche
If you happen to be in London but feel the urge for really old-school French gourmet dining look no further than Le Gavroche. The settings resemble of an antiques store and the full two-dozen strong hierarchy of waiters (all French, bien entendu!) are so stylishly arrogant that I almost felt let down by the gray-haired gentleman who first welcomed us at the door: he was actually willing to shut an eye on my blue jeans on the condition that...
Notting Hill Breakfast
If you have moved to London for four weeks, your son has fallen sick on the first night, but thankfully, two doctor occurences and five days later he can actually hold some food in, the sun is shining and spring is in the air, and to top it all, it is a Sunday which happens to be the (British) Mother's Day, do no more than head to Tom's Delicatessen for breakfast. And even if you're lucky enough to escape...
Sushi heaven
This is actually a very very simple restaurant review: Ikeda has the best sushi I've had outside Tokyo. Period. When (shouldn't be "if"!) you go there for a first time, say Omakase!*, sit back and watch the chef's choice of freshest sushi and sashimi magically appear on the red counter pictured above. Apparently Ikeda has been around for 25 years already. And there is a reason why. Footnote: *In Japanese, "Omakase" means "entrust" or "Chef, I'm in your hands"....
Dinner Joys Galore
A free tip for your next social event. Get a group of friends together in a Skype multichat. Set a date for a dinner. Divide courses and entertainment responsibilities and set no further rules. If your friends are anything like mine you will end up with six hours of pure joy featuring: Three types of game sausage (boar, deer & moose) Pickled wild mushrooms Home made bread Thai-style chicken skewers with cucumber-coriander salad Veal carpaccio parmigiano Phaesant leg on...
Which Michelin gave Hakkasan Their Star?
Hakkasan (SkypeFind reviews) has been on my to-go list for a long time. Can't even remember who was the very first to recommend it (and maybe the place was just better a year+ ago?). It is right around the corner from our London office, but for a reason or another I never made it. Now I did and what a complete disappointment it was. GOOD: Those who had 'em, praised the cocktails. Dimsum & duck appetizers were nice. That's...
Street Name as a Brand
Swallow street is located just off Regent street in Westminster. There are a few great restaurants there, for example Bentley's has definitely the best seafood (and best dressed lemons) I've had in London. Now - putting two and two together, you get the perfect brand for a restaurant street, worth designing into a logo. There are two more Swallow streets in London. Wonder if they all have good restaurants and share the brand?...
Fair Warning
Now this is a fair warning for all of you bacon lovers. They make it of pork. Really. Makes you think what did you really have for breakfast at that last hotel which did not have a "contains pork" disclaimer clearly presented....
Chocolate Fountain
Now this is a must-have summer kitchen gadget - hot chocolate waterfalling down from the fountain at Ammende Villa in Pärnu, Estonia. Should have taken a video of this not just a photo, it looked way too cool....
Morning Miso
Very unorthodox but tasty addition/replacement to the usual eggs'n'bacon breakfast. Combine your own miso soup from assorted components at Andel's Hotel in Prague. They must really get a lot of japanese tourists....
Le Table des Guilloux
Had an excellent dinner with colleagues at Le Table des Guilloux a bit outside Luxembourg city. As it was quite late on Sunday evening and after two tiring delayed flights, I did not feel like taking written or even mental notes on what exactly we had for food and wine, just enjoyed ourselves. To put it bluntly in the non-gourmet-review language: Oysters were the sweetest I've ever had. Almost as if they were caramel filled. Asparagus under perfectly lightly...
Time Machine in Tallinn
Tallinn TV tower is a miraculous place. In most elevators the numbers on buttons indicate floors, in this case it must be years the time machine will take you back. As you can see, today you can choose to go back to approximately 170m high (trivia fact: the tower itself is 314m) as it was in 1986. This is what people ate in 1986 in Soviet Estonia as a fancy dish. Chicken Kiev is basically a cutlet filled with... melted...
Pied á Terre
Had a lovely romantic dinner at Pied á Terre on Charlotte street in London, a two Michelin star venue run by Shane Osborn. (Trivia fact: he apparently was the first Australian to ever receive a Michelin star recognition in 1999). Everything from the apperative Apple Martini to the basics of how bread & butter are served was as perfect as the first time I was there about 6 months ago. Highly recommended. The menu on their website seems to...
Chef Risto's Magic
We had a fabulous home cooking night with a group of friends, featuring Chef Risto at my place the other night. There was too much deliciousness going around to describe it all here, but a few ideas worth trying can be shared....
Un-age your brain
A friend recently pinged me in fear: [13.02.2007 21:48:36] DS: anyway, wii is blaming me that my "fitness age is 66 years" and nintendo ds claims that my "brain age is 55 years"... For added context, he is not that much over 30. I remembered this chat when I read about the 4-week Quest to Be Smarter in Wired. There still is hope, isn't there? Even though I never played either of the devices referred to, I think out of...
Okonomiyaki @ Abeno
Without the intent of becoming a restaurant review blogger now, here still is another one: Abeno, the Okonomiyaki place. Interestingly enough they claim to be the only one of this kind of Europe, however right above the reference to "we do have another place in London" in their menu. Okonomiyaki is a Japanese crossover between pancake and omlette, in the most naive european terms. The Kansai/Osaka versions are based on rice and the Hiroshima ones on noodles. And Extra...
Valentine the Cat
Cat of Hearts aka the Valentine's Day dinner table decorations reshuffled in the Three Sisters restaurant. As a sidenote, the 3S hotel which hosts the restaurant would definitely be my #1 choice for a place to stay at if I didn't live in Tallinn but just travelled here occasionally. The whole evening was just perfect. The oysters very fresh (as the should be on a Wednesday, as most places up north here fly their batches in every Thursday). Our...
Riesling on fire
On the last Sunday evening of his vacation Ott suddenly discovered that his glass of Alsace Riesling (to accompany ML's tasty first chicken salad with tuna dressing in their new kitchen) is throwing out flames....
Chocolate E
The dessert is gone for good, but who has the heart to lick chocolate-powder-plate-designs on top? I like to think that they don't even use a template for this, but just careful artistic freehand......
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