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It's been over three years since I last visited Reale, a celebrated restaurant situated in the remote town of Castel di Sangro nestled in the mountains of Abruzzo in central Italy. It is not a tourist town and takes about 1.5 hours driving from Naples. It is interesting that a world-famous three-starred Michelin restaurant is housed in a time-honoured 16th century monastery.
It might be a bit of a cliché, but the story started when a boy fell in love with a girl.
"I started working as a cook when I was seventeen and that was a lot of years ago. Before doing catering school, I did a technical school. But this school was not suitable for me, also because to find a girl was like finding a needle in a haystack. I was very young with my hormones totally out of control. When I went to catering school, it was a great party for me, because eighty percent were girls."
There are places you pass by and places you stop for, and Pietro Zito's Antichi Sapori is certainly the latter.
More people are considering travelling abroad with the shortening of quarantine time when returning to Asia. I've been in Milan for over 2 month now.Sometimes I cook for myself, but sometimes I really miss those Asian flavours.
Opened in 2018 here in the alleys of Taipei by Hokkaido-born Chef Ryogo Tahara, French cuisine restaurant logy is a romantic spin-off from Hiroyasu Kawate’s two-star Michelin restaurant Florilège in Tokyo. With an innate sense of natural ingredients and a persistent search for unique Taiwanese flavours, Chef Tahara cooks in an unpretentious way, but his insistence on mastering people’s understanding for good food is self-evident. Within a short span of three years, logy has scooped two Michelin stars and has been ranked Top One among Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants in Taiwan. This time trying logy’s spring menu was a surprisingly great experience, as I could detect more traces of local elements when its creator incorporates multifaceted techniques from Japan, Italy and France.
Monica Zhao, the owner of Proust, is a renowned collector who stays true to herself with avid love for art and food.
Her brand YYCW is dedicated to promoting traditional Chinese culture. Apart from providing quality cultural experiences, Monica hopes to create a brand-new concept of the restaurant industry with her passion and insight for culture-derived fields.
I remembered I used to buy dried magnolia blossoms when I was stunned by the sight of sumptuous magnolia trees along the streets of Milan this summer.
Sitting atop a town hill in Emilia-Romagna, Magnolia, a Michelin two-starred establishment, offers gorgeous views of the gentle slopes extending all the way to the horizon and even the landlocked republic of San Marino in the distance. The region is famous for its balsamico vinegar and parmigiano reggiano cheese.
When I returned to Taiwan earlier and stayed at Grand Formosa Regent Taipei, I had a chance to catch up with my friends for lunch so I specifically chose Silks House, a Michelin Guide Cantonese cuisine restaurant on the third floor of the hotel. Despite its long establishment, the hotel is very well maintained with many senior members of staff still working and providing warm, understated service, reminding me of the elegant ambience of the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo.
