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La Tour d'Argent à Paris

Tour d'argent

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WORST restaurants: l'Arpège

C'est toujours un grand moment lorsque le chef sort la tête des coulisses pour venir voir sur la scène si la représentation se déroule bien et si les spectateurs sont heureux. Il fait le tour des tables, attentifs à chacun. Les clients sont ici des hôtes, dans le vrai sens du terme. Mais la présence du chef dans la salle ne se limite pas à ces visites forcément courtes, puisque l'essentiel est tout de même de mener l'orchestr...

Michelin-Star Cooking Classes

It isn’t every day that the average home cook gets to learn how to cook a week’s worth of locally-sourced gourmet food from a prestigious chef who has multiple Michelin stars under his belt--unless, of course, you’re taking classes at The Kitchen at Parsons Green from Thierry Laborde. From the start, classes at The Kitchen are unlike most you’ll find in the country. You’ll select a seasonal menu to prepare and a date and time slot from the online scheduler. Thie...

Geniuses

First of all, a common misperception is that chefs receive the Michelin star rating. Not so! It is the restaurant that receives the Michelin stars. The chef, however, is fundamental to the process of winning the stars.A second misperception is that a one-star restaurant is somehow not quite “up to snuff.” A single Michelin star is an astonishing and rare achievement for a restaurant. A multiple star rating is very rare, indeed.To win this recognition is the life goal of many a car...

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Le Meurice, Paris

Le Meurice, Paris

The legendary Le Meurice is a luxury hotel in the heart of Paris with a prestigious location between Place de la Concorde and the Louvre on the fashionable rue de Rivoli. Following centuries in which Le Meurice has played host to international royalty, fashion designers and countless public figures, this five-star Paris hotel is a place where history and the latest fashionable trends meet.

What's the Bulli?

El Bulli (as of 2008, the restaurant refers to itself with the orthography elBulli[1]) is a three Michelin starred restaurant run by chef Ferran Adrià. The small restaurant overlooks the Cala Monjoi bay, in Roses on the Costa Brava in Catalonia, Spain, and has been described as "the most imaginative generator of haute cuisine on the planet"[2] and does a great deal of work on molecular gastronomy. Restaurant has judged El Bulli the best restaurant in the world a record four times &md...

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El Bulli de Ferrán Adriá

ASTRID & GASTÓN

ASTRID & GASTÓN