Tag: Asian cuisine
Yakikami in Melbourne: an excellent Japanese experience
Yakikami, in Melbourne, is an excellent traditional Japanese restaurant offering quality food, great service and an overall excellent experience.
It's not hard to find good Japanese restaurants in Australia, so large is the immigrant community from the land of...
Red Spice Road restaurant in Melbourne: good for eating, but not for the atmosphere
Red Spice Road offers fairly good modern Asian cuisine, but the atmosphere is such that it's impossible to enjoy your meal or have a conversation with anyone.
For this long trip to Australia, I planned half of my dinners...
Bincho Boss in Melbourne: a pleasant small Japanese restaurant for an izakaya dinner
Bincho Boss, in Melbourne, offers simple, high-quality Japanese cuisine, totally in the spirit of the izakayas, the Japanese equivalent of the bistro that abound in the land of the rising sun.
To say the least, Melbourne's culinary scene...
Restaurant Saga in Gothenburg: when Singaporean cuisine meets Scandinavian cuisine
Saga in Gothenburg offers a cuisine where Singaporean influences meet Swedish ingredients for a fine and elaborate result.
I keep a constant watch on restaurant openings in the towns that I like and where I often go to detect potential...
Restaurant Kuruya Gothenburg: a small and friendly izakaya bar
Kuruya in Gothenburg offers an excellent range of dishes and sakes, with warm and friendly service. Unfortunately, it will no longer exist in this form by the time you read this.
To explain how I ended up at Kuruya,...
Katla Restaurant: when the flavors of the world meet in Oslo
Katla, in Oslo, offers inventive cuisine using local ingredients to create dishes that combine flavors from different regions of the world. Surprising, but a success.
You'll find a summary of articles about this vacation in Vietnam at the bottom...
Restaurant Gia in Hanoi: a good Michelin-starred restaurant that struggled to embark me on a laborious journey
Gia, in Hanoi, is a Michelin-starred restaurant offering creatively reinterpreted Vietnamese cuisine. It's good, but creativity has its limits: the property had a hard time drawing me into its dining experience and almost lost me along the way.
Unlike...
Wagamama, Boston Faneuil Hall: Very strong
While we were in the middle of our weekend, my wife had a craving for Chicken Katsu. And what better restaurant chain to satisfy that craving than Wagamama? So I booked in the morning for a late lunch on...
Hoa Tuc restaurant in Saigon: affordable, genuine Vietnamese cuisine
Hoac Tuc in Saigon is a very fair Vietnamese restaurant offering very decent food at very modest prices.
As I told you in my review of the excellent Anan Saigon, I made friends with my table-mates and decided to...