The Michelin Guide star awards for New York City restaurants won’t be announced until Monday, but Manhattan’s superstar chefs are already celebrating their honors in the latest global survey of the world’s 1,000 best places to eat. For the third year running, French seafood palace Le Bernardin was named the top US restaurant by La … Read more
Want to sample the world’s most expensive Michelin-starred tasting menu? First, take off your shoes —and sit down on the floor. Guests hoping to dine at the one-star Ginza Kitafuku in Tokyo will have to adhere to house rules before paying $2,130 per head for the restaurant’s costliest meal — composed entirely of a kind … Read more
Their restaurant review was given a thumbs way down. Influencers ripping restaurants has practically become a genre unto itself. However, one food critic wannabe divided her TikTok audience after skewering an acclaimed Greek seafood depot — with one naysayer telling her to “stick to Chipotle.” The online epicure, who goes by @so_rhidiculous on the platform, … Read more
Zero waste doesn’t mean zero taste, if you ask these top chefs. A dozen of New York City’s most celebrated restaurants and bars have accepted the challenge to produce no food waste for an entire week as part of the first-ever Make Food, Not Waste Restaurant Week. Pegged to the citywide mandatory composting program that … Read more
Veerays is the best new Indian restaurant East Midtown has seen in many, many years. Chef/owner Hermant Mathur’s dishes, from familiar coconut and black pepper shrimp (an $18 starter) to rarely-served camel kebabs (a $35 main), blew me away. But, beyond the food, Mathur and co-owner Sonny Solomon have made some strange decisions. Veerays hides behind a … Read more
The 2024 US Open Tennis Championship is upon us. While the professionals are battling it out in Flushing Meadows, Hamptonites will be practicing their moves at a series of new exclusive racquet clubs. These are not your traditional, run-of-the-mill country clubs. They are chic, social, and all about wellness, both on and off the court. … Read more
She’s a Michelin star destroyer. A travel influencer has ripped a world-renowned restaurant in Spain’s Basque Country for serving her “the worst meal” of her life — after dropping nearly $1,000 on a repast said to be so revolting, a neighboring diner refused to pay. Chloe Jade Meltzer dropped the zero-star review in a series of … Read more
Newly minted Michelin-starred chef Arturo Rivera Martínez stood over an insanely hot grill Wednesday at the first Mexican taco stand ever to get a coveted star from the French dining guide, and did exactly the same thing he’s been doing for 20 years: searing meat. Though Michelin representatives came by Wednesday to present him with … Read more
Scalpels down, knives out. Three chefs from New York hospitals competed head-to-head in a three-course, “Top Chef”-style cooking competition Wednesday in front of a live audience at the Institute of Culinary Education (ICE) in Lower Manhattan. The stakes were high. The winner received an all-expenses-paid trip to Napa. Celebrity chef Marcus Samuelsson — a “Top … Read more
The Magic Kingdom now has Michelin magic, too. Victoria & Albert’s at Disney Disney World’s Grand Floridian Resort & Spa is the first theme-park eatery to earn a Michelin star. Victoria & Albert’s has been awarded a Michelin star — a first for a theme park. Disney Parks/Instagram The restaurant at the “Happiest Place on … Read more
Hoteliers had better sleep with one eye open. The restless restaurant gurus at Michelin have decided to cast their famously critical eyes on the world’s most luxurious hotels, establishing a key rating system for the very first time — and just 124 snooze shops around the world managed to snag a slot on the tire … Read more
Michelin accomplished. While New York City might have been snubbed by “best restaurants” lists recently — namely Yelp‘s and the James Beard Awards — there is one reputable source repping the Big Apple. The 2024 Michelin Guide recently added 10 Gotham City restaurants, which run the gamut of cuisines from Puerto Rican to Japanese-French fusion … Read more
This meal is out of this world. Having a Michelin-starred meal in space already would be an astronomical feat — and it comes at a sky-high price. SpaceVIP, one of the first luxury space-tourism companies, will host an immersive dining experience in space with Michelin-starred Denmark chef Rasmus Munk. Six explorers “will be making history … Read more
Keep your bougie meals — Americans would rather eat comfort food than fine dining for the rest of their lives. That’s according to a poll of 2,000 U.S. adults which revealed that Americans are more than three times more likely to opt for comfort food (70%) over gourmet meals (16%) if they could only choose … Read more
The Tour d’Argent already boasts a 320,000-bottle wine cellar, a world-famous duck recipe and a storied 441-year history. Now, the legendary Paris restaurant is about to serve up its “plat de résistance”: a front-row view of two of the biggest events of 2024 — the renaissance of Notre Dame Cathedral and the 2024 Summer Olympics. A city landmark … Read more
Earning a Michelin star stands as the ultimate award for a restaurant, symbolizing culinary mastery and an extraordinary dining journey. Across the globe, the Michelin Guide employs rigid criteria to judge and award these prestigious stars. Restaurants cannot apply for Michelin stars; they are selected through a meticulous process. Inspectors visit anonymously, usually multiple times, to experience … Read more
On the day Israeli celebrity chef Eyal Shani won a coveted Michelin star for his West Village eatery Shmoné, he was near the Gaza border flipping steaks for IDF soldiers. Shani — who gained notoriety by charging $24 for a single tomato appetizer at his West Side restaurant HaSalon – shut down his 16 restaurants … Read more
Think of it as a Michelin Star for affordability. Enjoying an affordable gourmet meal in NYC might seem like a paradox in light of soaring inflation. Fortunately, ahead of dropping its official list of stars, the Michelin Guide has unveiled 11 new NYC Bib Gourmand — affordable restaurants — entries, so that cash-strapped gourmets can … Read more
It’s a Michelin-star mission. A tourism company is selling tickets for voyages in a luxury hot air balloon – a pressurized capsule attached to a stratospheric balloon – where brave gourmands will be served three-star fare on the edge of space. French company Zephalto’s low-carbon luxury air balloon, Céleste, will seat up to six passengers, … Read more
A Michelin star chef in Spain to looking to put an unusual delicacy on the menu — fish semen. Dabiz Muñoz, a Madrid-based chef, was invited to try the dish by Japanese chef Hiro Sato — and was blown away. The delicacy, called shirako, can be harvested from pufferfish, octopus, monkfish and cod. The semen … Read more