by dariussanai
From a five course interactive dining experience to hip burger joints and Dutch pancakes, Francesca Peaks discovers Amsterdam’s best gastronomic secrets
Categories: Food • Tags: Amsterdam, cocotte, de culinaire werkplaats, gastronomy, moeders, pancakes, robert kranenborg, sanders bar and kitchen, thril gril
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Ex-Nobu head chef, Scott Hallsworth, provides Londoners with a rare insight into some of his favourite foods at a wonderfully wintery pop-up that will have your taste-buds tingling and your eyes all aglow this festive season.
Categories: Food • Tags: december, festive, Food, London, Nobu, pop-up, restaurant, Scott Hallsworth, winter
by dariussanai
Stockholm is undergoing a quiet gastronomic revolution in an understated Swedish style. Francesca Peak selects the coolest places to taste crisp-bread, cinnamon buns, sushi, salad and reindeer.
Categories: Food, Stockholm • Tags: cafe saturnus, Doctor Salad, East, Food, hantverket, Organic, reindeer, Stockholm, sturehof, sushi, Sweden, vete-katten
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Salvatore Ferragamo has been an Italian luxury legend ever since its footwear was adopted by Hollywood sirens in the 1920s. Recently, Ferruccio Ferragamo, son of the eponymous founder and currently president of the company, and his own son Salvatore, have ventured into the world of fine wine and hospitality (following in the footsteps of Ferruccio’s younger brother Massimo, who owns the Castiglion del Bosco wine estate and luxury hotel). As part of our Luxury Leaders series, Salvatore Ferragamo speaks to LUX about restoring the medieval Tuscan village of Il Borro, ponders luxury’s demand for authenticity, and reveals his favourite Italian dish.
Categories: Fashion, Food, Opinon, Travel • Tags: Fashion, Ferragamo, Hospitality, Il Borro, Luxury Leaders, Tuscany, Winemaking
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Presiding over a global restaurant empire, spanning Bahrain to Boston, Wolfgang Puck is one of the world’s most celebrated chefs. He speaks to Alice Clarke about food, family, canned pineapple and Coco Chanel Alice Clarke: Did you love cooking as a child? Wolfgang Puck: My mother was a chef and I helped her to cook at home. I loved pastries and sweets more than anything back then. When I was 14 I left home to start an apprenticeship with a […]
Categories: Food • Tags: CUT, fine dining, Food, Restaurants, wolfgang puck
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There’s a whole lot more to Bali than makeshift beach bars and hippy zone-outs. Make like a dude with ANDREA SEIFERT’s guide to the island’s spectacular cocktail hotspots 1. KAKILIMA BY THE SEA, CANGGU This charming, family-friendly seaside spot in Canggu sits on an expansive grassy lawn that gently slopes down to meet the sparkling water. Fast becoming known as the hotspot for sundowners, the postcard-perfect sunsets have to be seen to be believed and are best enjoyed with a […]
Categories: Food, Travel • Tags: Asia, Bali, Balinese, bar, Barbacoa, Canggu, cocktail bar, Food, Holiday, Holidays, LUX Family Issue, MOTEL MEXICOLA, Seminyak, Travel
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It’s the combination of history, hospitality and a superb location in the heart of South Kensington that makes Cranley Hotel the ideal home away from home in London. Explore the neighbourhood with ANDREA SEIFERT There are few hotels that make you feel instantly at home from the moment you set foot through the door, but The Cranley is one such place. Tucked away on Bina Gardens, a quiet side street in elegant, historic South Kensington, it is an intimate hotel […]
Categories: Cars, Design, Fashion, Food, Travel • Tags: Art, Beauty, cranley hotel, Culture, Food, Kensington, Knightsbridge, London, LUX Family Issue, South Kensington
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It is a quarter of a century since Nobu Matsuhisa first teamed up with Robert De Niro to open a restaurant in LA that would change the way the A-list eats. DARIUS SANAI sat down with Nobu recently to talk taste, celebrity, and hotels Everyone remembers their first visit to a Nobu. Mine was quite a few years back, in London, accompanied by a number of hard-worn journalists determined not to be star-struck either by the other guests or the […]
Categories: Food • Tags: London, LUX Family Issue, New York City, Nobu, Nobu Matsuhisa, restaurant, Robert DeNiro
