Tag: European cuisine
Restaurant TUNG Dining in Hanoi: an excellent cross between Scandinavia and Asia, but panic when it comes to paying!
TUNG Dining in Hanoi offers an excellent dining experience, close to that of a Michelin-starred restaurant. But a huge bug at the end of the service practically ruined my evening.
For my last dinner in Hanoi, after a Michelin-starred...
Restaurant Project in Gothenburg: a Michelin-starred restaurant with a monotonous tone
Project offers fine, refined dishes that are not overly sophisticated, in a warm, friendly setting, without fuss. But the omnipresence of lemon in all the dishes during our dinner eventually became boring, and certain aspects of the service were...
The Purple Pig Chicago: very good, but noisy and with perfectible service
The Purple Pig offers friendly, tasty food in a lively setting, but it didn't quite strike my fancy.
Choosing the restaurants for this trip required a bit of organizational work. Since these weren't originally joint vacations, but Olivier and I...
Restaurant Cura in Lisbon: a very good and creative gastronomic restaurant
Cura in Lisbon, the restaurant of the Ritz Four Seasons is a very good gastronomic offering a rather inventive cuisine on classic bases.
For this dinner in Lisbon the choice was not complicated. For my birthday, I had made...
Restaurant Zunzum Gastrobar in Lisbon: nice but dishes with a little unbalanced taste
Zunzum Gastrobar in Lisbon offers a contemporary Portuguese-inspired menu, nice dishes and beautiful cocktail creations. Not really gastronomic for my taste but almost, it allows nevertheless to indulge ourself at affordable prices.
For this long stay in Lisbon I...
Restaurant 28+ in Gothenburg: a classic starred restaurant
28+ is a Michelin-starred restaurant of a relative classicism. You won't be disappointed, but it's far from the creativity often found in Scandinavian starred restaurants.
In order to finish these vacations in beauty I decided to finish by a...
Gordon Ramsay Bar&Grill London (Park Walk): a decent steakhouse
Gordon Ramsay's Grill is a great way to experience the chef's cuisine in a simplified version with a friendly atmosphere and affordable prices.
For this weekend with friends in London, it was Olivier, the local, who took care of...
Restaurant Elevador in Lisbon: nice but bland
For this second dinner in Lisbon I looked for something more traditional and local than the excellent Down Under of the day before.
To be honest I was too lazy to look around and didn't want to walk too...
Restaurant Angle in Barcelona: a creative and refined 2* restaurant
For this second gastronomic experience in Barcelona I opted for Angle, a Michelin 2*. The reason? Not because it promises a "true gastronomic experience", that they all do, but because at first glance its tasting menu gave me the...