Food from Singapore

Look out for a pop up restaurant that is on a world tour. Originating in Singapore, stopping off in cities around the world including London. Top chefs from Singapore will offer authentic dishes from the country as well as cooking dishes with local chefs.
Here's the link www.yoursingapore.com/content/traveller/en/browse/whats-on/festivals-and-events/spice/singapore-takeout.html

Top 50

Every year the good and the great get together to announce the S Pellegrino top 50 restaurants. Here's a link to find out who are this years winners ;
http//www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-18/noma-beats-competition-for-world-s-best-restaurant-as-el-bulli-rivals-grow.html

Enjoy

NEXT

Tomorrow's Food wrote back in May 2010 about Grant Achatz restaurant called NEXT that was due to open this year. Well it's open. People are bidding $3000 for a chef's table. The menu is going to change every three months to a different era and different type. Currently the menu is based on Paris circa 1906.

I read a recent article with great interest the other day. It happened to be discussing the virtues of New York v London as cities to head to for food inspiration. Well that one can run and run. All I know is that you can seriously eat your way around the world in London these days. It never fails to inspire me when I am there.
Just look what's been going on recently in terms of food openings.
Sputino, sister restaurant to Polpo and Polpetto, Nopi, Ottolenghi's first venture into a high end Brasserie,Vinoteca, sister restaurant to the original Vinoteca in Farringdon, serves rustic British, European food. Jason Atherton's Pollen Street Social, Peter Goden's Kopapa. Heston's Dinner.
London is in a rich vein of form.

On a recent food trip to Greece, Tomorrowsfood was blown away by the quality of the food there. It is so on trend in the UK at the moment, a few simple ingredients, cooked, in this instance, slowly over a charcoal fire, seasoned with natural ingredients like olive oil and lemon juice. This dish, Lamb Kleftiko, the lamb is cooked with some herbs and peppers in a paper parcel that traps in all the natural flavour. It was a stunning dish. This was served in a small family run cafe-bar.

Tomorrowsfood has recently heard Hotel du Vin are opening a number of stand alone Bistro's in London. The Bistro du Vin will be serving the same food as the hotels. Perhaps a Gallic trend beginning to emerge.

Ramsey keeps on going

Must admit this one flew under the radar. Ramsey has taken over Montreal's Rotisserie Laurier. He intends to revamp the menu, to offer salads, ribs and burgers. Feels like a chain coming on. Wonder if we will see an outlet in the UK anytime soon.

Another day another chef

Jean - Georges Vongerichten is planning on opening a London based version of his famous and successful Spice Market NYC restaurant in 2011. The NYC restaurant is famous for delivering authentic versions of Asian Street Food.
Can't wait.

What Recession ? WOW

I recently read that Andrew LLoyd Webber the Theatre owner, Composer and Film Producer is selling, at Southeby's, some 748 bottles of rare wine, all from his private collection. Cases to include Lafite and Mouton Rothschild. The sale is expected to raise £ 2.6 million pounds.

This has nothing to do with what I normally blog about. It just made me go WOW.