TranslationCars.. Restaurant Aqua is, practically, a restaurant in a car park. Situated on the ground floor of The Ritz-Carlton Hotel in a small, kind-of-chaavy industrial town of Wolfsburg, this is a fine dining lair in (pretty much) the middle of nowhere. While Wolfsburg itself isn’t a no-go town, its attractions are tailored only for car …
TranslationApple and pear That’s the meaning of “Mele E Pere”. The designer took it quite literally and mounted a polychromatic window display of apples and pears – some metallic ones, some Murano glass ones – on the street level of this mysterious Italian eatery on Brewer Street. In fact, the entrance was pretty much a …
TranslationThe Spanish neighbour By now the name Jose Pizarro has already become synonymous with great Spanish food and the Bermondsey neighbourhood, and less than a year after the swanky tapas bar Jose was opened came Pizarro, an adjacent, yet slightly more proper Spanish eatery focusing on bigger plates of food. There was a spirit of …
TranslationA millionaire’s hotspot.. Mayfair restaurants are usually filled with properly rich people but at Novikov the degree of wealthiness verged on being obscene. There was a catch, still. The ambiance at Novikov’s “Italian” was strangely and grandiosely relaxed. The dark bar entrance led the way, via a glitzy wine cellar, to a brightly lit dining …
TranslationPermanently parked! I love their sense of humour: London’s much lauded Meatwagon (subsequently reincarnated as #MEATEASY) found no better permanent location than at a car park, just behind Debenham’s, off Oxford Street. The collaborative brains behind MEATliquor Yianni Papoutsis and Scott Collins somehow kept the exterior of their famed burger shrine suspiciously banal. Inside it …
TranslationCan’t afford Noma? Copenhagen isn’t necessarily the city for wealthy gourmets, and Relae is one of the prime examples for wallet-friendly eateries. Situated in one of the city’s farther hoods, this was a casual, well-buzzed bistro. Wooden minimalist and exposed brick walls. Open kitchen. No table cloth. No waiter. The menu, the cutlery and the …