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S.Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2010
Posted by Margarét in 42 restaurants, food, la colombe, recipes, restaurants, s pellegrino, S.Pellegrino World's 50 Best Restaurants on April 27th, 2010
Executive Chef Luke Dale-Roberts from La Colombe
On Monday, 26 April, the S.Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurants Awards 2010 were unveiled at London’s Guildhall. The new number one restaurant is Noma from Denmark. For the previous four years, this position was held by Spanish El Bulli, which dropped down to the second spot this year. The Fat Duck, previously number two, was pushed down to third place.
42 Restaurants features eight restaurants in the Top 50 positions this year. These are La Colombe and Le Quartier Francais (South Africa), St John and Hibiscus (UK), Aqua and Die Schwarzwaldstube (Germany), Oaxen Krog (Sweden) and Biko (Mexico). Four more are featured in the Top 100: The River Café, Le Gavroche and Alain Ducasse at the Dorchester (UK) and Tantris (Germany). Our congratulations to these restaurants!
For the full 2010 List visit www.theworlds50best.com.
La Colombe, our highest ranking restaurant on the S.Pellegrino List, jumped 26 places to number 12. Since La Colombe is located in 42 Restaurants’ own hometown, Cape Town, we are particularly proud. As a special treat, we are making their Fricasse of Langoustine and Quail recipe available here. Enjoy!
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List of Participating Restaurants
Posted by Margarét in 42 restaurants, iPhone app, michelin, restaurants on May 29th, 2009
Click here to see a list with photos of all restaurants included in the iPhone app 42 Restaurants. Restaurants were chosen for their international appeal, innovation and varied menus. The list includes 40 Michelin Stars altogether. Many James Beard award winning chefs, as well as restaurants listed in the S. Pellegrino list of World’s 50 and 100 best restaurants is included.
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Chef Bios: Kendal Duque
Posted by Margarét in 42 restaurants, chef, food, james beard, restaurant, restaurants on May 26th, 2009
Kendal Duque
Kendal Duque grew up in a family of cooks. His maternal great-grandmother, known as one of the great cooks in Quito, Ecuador, was an inspiration to him as a child and a passion for cooking passed down the family lines to Kendal.
His family immigrated to the United States when he was young, and while studying at UC Berkeley, Kendal would often walk by the iconic Chez Panisse just to check out the menu. He quickly came to the realization that this was more than a passing curiosity and upon completing his thesis in Literature, he enrolled in culinary school. After graduating from Peter Kump’s New York Cooking School (1996), he began working under the legendary Julian Serrano, first at Masa (San Francisco) and then at the Bellagio (Las Vegas). After two years with Serrano, Kendal moved to Chicago and continued his working education, working in the kitchens of Jean Joho’s four-star Everest and then as sous chef on the opening team of the highly-anticipated Tru.
Inspired by all he had learned, Kendal went to Paris to stage at several Michelin-starred restaurants, soaking up all he could of the intense atmosphere. From Europe, he spent time working in NYC at the acclaimed Union Pacific, and he then returned to Chicago to work as the sous chef at NoMi. It was at NoMi Kendal met Emmanuel Nony, and a few years later, the two began collaborating on Sepia, one of the featured restaurants in the iPhone application 42 Restaurants.
Kendal decided to move on from Sepia in March 2009, to start his own restaurant. He was succeeded by Andrew Zimmerman, formerly chef de cuisine at NoMI and one-time chef at Mod and Del Toro restaurants in Wicker Park.
In 2009, Kendal had been a semifinalist for the James Beard Foundation’s Best Chef: Great Lakes award. With a degree in Latin American literature from the University of California, Berkeley, creativity is a defining characteristic of Kendal’s – it is the creative process he loves most about cooking and his style can be described as of the moment, good-spirited and filled with clean, pure, direct flavors. Simple, yet elegant.
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Free Recipe: Warm Chocolate Soup
Posted by Margarét in 42 restaurants, fine dining, food, images, michelin, recipes, restaurants, Uncategorized on May 12th, 2009
This indulgent warm chocolate soup is an all-time favourite at Wild Honey, served with crème fraîche and chopped almonds.
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Ingredients
For Soup:
- 50g / 1,8oz dark chocolate, 60-70% cocoa solids
- 50g / 1,8oz whipping cream
- 50g / 1,8oz butter
- 4 eggs, separated
To Serve:
- Icing sugar, for dusting
- Good handful of chopped almonds
- 120-180ml / 4-6oz créme fraiche
Method
- Preheat the oven to 100°C / gas ¼ / 212°F .
- In a gently warmed bain-marie (or a bowl set over, but not touching, some gently simmering water), heat the chocolate and butter until just melted. Add the egg yolks and combine lightly.
- In separate bowls, lightly whip the cream to ribbon stage and beat the egg whites until standing in soft peaks, but being careful not to over-beat.
- Fold these into the chocolate
mixture and immediately transfer to 4-6 individual ovenproof serving bowls. - Bake for 9 minutes.
- Allow to stand for a minute or so after removing from the oven.
- Then sprinkle with icing sugar, scatter with chopped almonds and top with a spoonful of créme fraiche.
Tips:
The quality of the chocolate you use for this is quite critical to the flavour of the finished soup. Chef Anthony Demetre suggests you use Valrhona’s 66% cocoa solids.
Wild Honey (London):
Anthony Demetre and Will Smith, the team behind the successful Arbutus restaurant in Soho, launched their second site ‘Wild Honey’ in July 2007. Wild Honey continues in the same style as Arbutus – an award-winning combination of modestly priced great food and wine in an informal, friendly ambience. Wild Honey has a Michelin Star.
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Let’s see some of the restaurants!
Posted by Margarét in 42 restaurants, fine dining, restaurant, restaurants, Uncategorized on May 11th, 2009
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With 42 Restaurants you’ll be creating at home the same dishes that are served in these fine places.
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Chef Bios: Michel Guérard
Posted by Margarét in 42 restaurants, michelin, restaurant, restaurants, Uncategorized on May 7th, 2009
Michel Guérard
Michel Guérard along with Paul Bocuse, Pierre Troisgros, Alain Chapel, Alain Senderens, Jean Delaveyne and Roger Vergé is one of the most important Founding Fathers of the Mouvement Culinaire Français, precursor to the world-wide Nouvelle Cuisine Française.
Mr Guérard performed his apprenticeship as a pastry chef at Mantes-La-Jolie under Kleber Alix and moved on to work at a number of restaurants in Paris. It was while working as a pastry chef at the Hôtel de Crillon that he won the Meilleur Ouvrier de France Patisserie in 1958. He achieved his first Michelin star in 1967 at his restaurant Le Pot-au-Feu.
In 1974, along with his wife Christine Barthélemy, he restored the hotel, restaurant and thermal spa Les Prés d’Eugénie at Eugénie Les Bains, a thermal spa in the Group of the Chaîne Thermale du Soleil. The hotel and restaurant is the leading Weight-loss center in France, thanks to a new concept in cooking: Cuisine Minceur, now Cuisine Minceur Active®, which, with its scientific, sensory and playful approach, has redefined the relationship between Health and Nutrition. The Spa at Eugénie les Bains holds the record for foreign spa visitors, who make up 12% of their clientele.
Between 1990 and 1995 Mr Guérard served on the Municipal Council of Eugénie les Bains and used this experience to do a complete makeover of the town, thanks to an original bipartite development convention between the Société Thermale d’Eugénie les Bains, the Société familiale, and the Commune d’Eugénie.
42 Restaurants features a recipe from Michel Guérard’s 3 Michelin starred restaurant Les Prés d’Eugénie called ‘A Garden of Warm Truffle Purée Floating on a Chilled Green Pea Soup’. In his words: “This island floating in truffle juice on an iced pea velouté, evokes a quiet and fluid smoothness on the palate, unlike crusty fried dishes with footsteps crunching through snow.”
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Chef Bios: Laurent Tourondel
Posted by Michael in chef, restaurant, restaurants, Uncategorized on May 3rd, 2009
Laurent Tourondel
Honored by Bon Appétit as Restaurateur of the Year in 2007 and by Food & Wine as a Best New Chef in 1997, Tourondel also has received an array of “Best of…” awards from publications that include Esquire, Travel & Leisure, Saveur and Wine Spectator. Tourondel has changed the approach of fine dining by creating accessible menus prepared with the finest ingredients and presented in a casual, comfortable dining room. By adhering to his belief that ingredients should be stellar, food simply prepared and service kind and efficient, BLT restaurants have become household names.
With the passion and skill of a French-trained chef, and the sensibility and style of a metropolitan restaurateur, Tourondel has successfully infiltrated the rarified world of New York restaurants and the national dining landscape, much to the delight of critics and diners alike.
Tourondel’s BLT (Bistro Laurent Tourondel) chain of restaurants include, BLT Fish, BLT Prime, BLT Burger and BLT Market in New York City. He has brought BLT Steak to Washington D.C., San Juan, Puerto Rico; Los Angeles and White Plains, NY; and BLT Burger to The Mirage in Las Vegas.
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Why the Name 42 Restaurants?
Posted by Michael in 42 restaurants, douglas adams, names, recipes, restaurants on April 22nd, 2009
Many people ask us why we decided to name the application 42 Restaurants and contrary to references to Douglas Adams’s books: The Restaurant At the End of the Universe and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. We did not take the answer to The Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything: 42 and Milliways and use it as a reference to our application.
The application is so named because when the concept for it was created, we needed to work out the minimum number of recipes/restaurants we would need to feature to provide value to our users. 42 seemed a sufficient number and so the name stuck.
We did try working with other names, such as the Skilled Skillet, but it was hard to imagine our application being called anything else.
Once we started approaching restaurants we realized we would encounter a different problem. That of numbers. We had such a good response that we knew we could not release only 42. In fact the initial release will feature just under 50 with more to come in subsequent updates.
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Restaurant Thumbnails
Posted by Michael in images, iPhone app, recipes, restaurants on April 16th, 2009
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A Little Hors d’Oeuvre
Posted by Michael in fine dining, food, iPhone app, joël, recipes, restaurants, snack on April 14th, 2009
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