Entries from seikatsu tagged with 'review'
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...
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"....
Mitchell's number9dream
The way I met this book is quite as bizarre and coincidental as David Mitchell's writing itself. I happened to finger through a flight magazine (probably SAS, and probably Copenhagen-London) and stumbled on a brief book review of something that sounded like "fast-paced cyberfiction set in modern Tokyo". Given my childhood love for anything cyberpunk and that I was just freshly under Tokyo influence, I really wanted to get that book. Alas, I immediately forgot the title. Weeks later,...
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...
Blip.TV Beats YouTube on Quality
PC World has published a comparative review on video sharing sites. With the exception of Korea and France, YouTube still seems to be the #1 global option to get distribution for your flicks. However -- as I've also concluded recently for myself -- there is so much variety of (non-clone!) alternatives out there that beat the YT-behemoth hands down on quality, interesting niche approaches, revenue sharing models and more. I'm especially happy that Blip.tv (a recent ASI investment) has come...
Solving the Home Storage Problem
As any next person these days I've been suffering for years with the issue of storage. I mean the digital photos & music & file backups, not golf clubs and bicycles this time. We have three notebooks in our household, one of them employer-owned e.g. both policy-wise and philosophically not personal content friendly. All running close to hard drive capacity. Plus I have a few external hard drives that are a burden enough to find and attach at the right...
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...
Branson's Screw It, Let's Do It
A few months ago I happened to pick up a few (business) biographies from a bookstore. The stack is still quite high, but I've gone through some now and thought I'd share some reading notes. First off, Sir Richard Branson's Screw It, Let's Do It. Don't be intimidated the self-help-in-ten-steps-guide style title, it actually is a nice and quick (a few inter-European flights) intro to Branson's world and Virgin in it. Why read it? For most of the world Branson...
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...
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