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Restaurant The Lobster Club, New-York: Excellent food, slow service

For this short stay in New York, I decided to go to one of my favorite sushi restaurants, The Lobster Club, located in Midtown near Park Avenue. The concept The concept is quite simple: a restaurant serving excellent Japanese cuisine in...

Ail des Ours in Amiens: a creative gourmet restaurant at an affordable price

Ail Des Ours offers excellent gourmet cuisine inspired by nature, with an emphasis on local produce for a creative and successful result. For this second dinner in Amiens, I chose Ail Des Ours for a simple reason: in the...

Les Orfèvres in Amiens: a fine dining experience

Les Orfèvres in Amiens offers very good gourmet cuisine and perhaps suffers only from a service that lacks a little rhythm. For my first evening in Amiens, I chose to dine at Les Orfèvres, a gastronomic restaurant located near...

La Mère Brazier in Lyon: an excellent experience at this monument to French cuisine

La Mère Brazier, Lyon's double Michelin-starred restaurant, has taken the concept of the ‘bouchon lyonnais’ to a gourmet level for an experience of the highest order. For this second dinner in Lyon, unlike my previous stays, I planned well in...

Le Sully in Lyon: a slightly disappointing bouchon

Le Sully is a Lyonnais bouchon offering authentic cuisine, but I was somewhat disappointed by the quality of the dishes I was served. But perhaps I made the wrong choice. I had decided to start my stay at...

Le Veau Qui Tète at Rungis Market: a convivial delight for meat and offal lovers

Le Veau Qui Tète, at Rungis Market near Paris, offers excellent, hearty meat dishes in the unique atmosphere of a place dedicated to professionals in the restaurant, food and agriculture industries. I was recently invited by some restaurateur friends...

Restaurant l’Impromptu in Nancy: a delicious gourmet break in the covered market

L'impromptu in Nancy offers authentic, high-quality French cuisine in the friendly setting of the covered market. The name of the restaurant really matches this impromptu meal! Olivier was in Paris for the week-end and as I planned to visit...

Aalia Restaurant in Sydney: a refined Middle Eastern restaurant. Sydney’s best?

Aalia offers sophisticated Middle Eastern cuisine in elegant surroundings and with excellent service. I never trust TripAdvisor when I'm looking for a restaurant, but I happened to realize in hindsight that at that time at least, it was the...

Manta restaurant in Sydney: decent food but service not up to scratch

While Manta claims to be Sydney's best seafood restaurant, my experience was much more mixed: decent but not exceptional dishes, and service that wasn't up to scratch and was sometimes even excessively colloquial. Before leaving Melbourne for Sydney, I had...

Freyja restaurant in Melbourne: a little piece of Scandinavia in Australia

Freyja offers excellent Scandinavian-inspired cuisine, with dishes of apparent simplicity that emphasize the quality of local produce. For my last evening in Melbourne, I was looking for something a little original, and after having overindulged in Asian cuisine, opting...