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A one night layover in Rome and it was my first time in this city. Luckily I had a few tips in my pocket. After a short walking tour (Our Alitalia flight was 3 hours late, so we had to skip a few landmarks) we took a cab and headed to La Pariolina, a pizzeria and restaurant located in Parioli, one of the nice bourgeois parts of the city behind the Villa Borghese park. The tipp came from Winepunk Marco Zanetti, a sommelier turned “terroirist”, importing indigenous grape wines to Germany and maybe soon to your country as well. The particular thing about this Roman pizzeria is that it not only offers a nice wine list, but also a great craft beer list. Beer friends among you might know that a huge microbrew wave has been hitting Italy these last years. So here are a few impressions and I can only say that it was a great place to stop by, not only for the beer but also for good food emphasizing quality ingredients and also for its great atmosphere with not many tourists. Read the rest of this entry »
Die Projekte des Feinkost-Unternehmers Meyer sind in Frankfurt eine Bank, aus gastronomischer Sicht versteht sich: Ob Catering, Restaurant, der Feinkost-Laden in der Fressgass oder halt das Holbein’s.
Letzeres ist seit etwas mehr als einem Jahrzent zwischen zwei Flügel des Städel-Museums eingenistet, geschützt durch eine kolossale Glasfront und Säulenkonstruktion. Es gehört zu diesem Typus städtischer Restaurants, die man ebenso in Geschäftsmetropolen wie New York oder Shanghai finden kann. Ein Business Restaurant mit einem gewissen Flair, in das man ebensogut als Privatgesellschaft oder mit einem Date gehen kann. Es kann zwar auch laut werden, in diesem Fall oft mit dem angenehmen Klang hallender live-Pianomusik als Beimischung, doch das Holbein’s zeichnet sich vor allem durch seine kulinarische Verlässlichkeit aus. Read the rest of this entry »
Happy new Year to all of you! 2012 was a year filled with many wines, not too many tastings and blind tastings, but certainly enough Epicurian moments to fill a few pages. I certainly have not reported everything, as workload was higher than in previous years, but there are some great moments that are worth being mentioned anew. Read the rest of this entry »
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Finally I got to visit one of Frankfurt’s most acclaimed fine dining locations, Restaurant Villa Merton*, where Chef Matthias Schmidt is applying a cuisine which could be qualified as regional, experimental and natural. Without doubt, there are some striking similarities to restaurant Noma chef René Redzepi’s philosophy, as Schmitt as well has a focus on regional specialties, gathering herbs and fruit and sourcing meat and fish in the very region of Frankfurt.
After I had a provisional introduction to Matthias Schmidt’s cuisine at a pop-up restaurant last year, a friend’s visit was the right occasion to discover his philosphy “full throttle”. We opted for the seven course menu named “Stoff”, here’s the story of our dinner. Read the rest of this entry »
Mittlerweile gibt es in fast jeder deutschen Stadt einen oder mehrere “Edel-Inder”, bei denen für schon recht stolze Preise grosse Mengen Korma-Sauce (über Hühnchen, Lamm und Reis) auf den Tischen landen. Die Deko ist dabei ähnlich ausgetüftelt im Kitsch wie beim Chinesischen um die Ecke (Echt Plastik-Holz-Decke), die Weinkarte gibt sich bewandert.
Doch es geht auch anders. Wer auf Komfort verzichten kann, der wird zum Beispiel im Frankfurter Bahnhofsviertel ein kleines Juwel entdecken können. In diesem sich ganz langsam der Gentrifizierung nähernden Stadtteil befindet sich nämlich das bescheidene Restaurant Ganesha, das eher einer Imbissbude gleicht. Das Mobiliar stammt offensichtlich aus einer Büro-Auflösung, die Heizung hat diesen Namen nicht verdient (im Winter also dicke Jacke mitbringen).
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Of course there are many restaurants in Paris serving good beef, but if you’re looking for the one go-to point for your sudden fix of meat, then La Maison de l’Aubrac certainly should be high on your list, since it also is the one such place that is open any time a day for the entire week.
And somehow you feel like there’s a special kind of vibe in this place, which isn’t far from the Champs-Elysées. There seems to be a mix of testosterone and beef vapors in the air and a common spirit of meat-greed that unifies all patrons. Read the rest of this entry »
