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A Highly Specific Guide to Barcelona’s Best Tasting Menus

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How to go all-out on at least one meal in the tasting-menu capital of the world Fine dining has had a tough go in recent years. In most cities around the world, stepping off the street and into a cushy dining room means missing out on important local culinary traditions in favor of a tablecloth and some generic amuse bouche.

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SinglePlatform Customers on Food & Wine’s 40 Most Important Restaurants List

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These restaurants have played a part in defining dining in America over the decades. dining scene. Since, he has built up the Wolfgang Puck Fine Dining Group with a host of restaurants, bars, and lounges nationally and internationally. Spago’s concept is modern fine-dining and a 2012 renovation gave way to a sleek design.

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SinglePlatform Customers on Food & Wine’s 40 Most Important Restaurants List

Single Platform

These restaurants have played a part in defining dining in America over the decades. dining scene. Since, he has built up the Wolfgang Puck Fine Dining Group with a host of restaurants, bars, and lounges nationally and internationally. Spago’s concept is modern fine-dining and a 2012 renovation gave way to a sleek design.

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Blue Hill at Stone Barns Tells a Beautiful Story. Former Employees Say It’s Too Good to Be True.

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Blue Hill at Stone Barns’ alluring story — that a fine dining restaurant could be a model for changing the world — seduced diners, would-be employees, and thought leaders alike. Numerous sources asked to be anonymous, fearful of the enormous reach and influence of Dan Barber.

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‘Jiro Dreams of Sushi’ and the American Omakase Boom

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pre- Jiro ; the “Japanese turn,” as defined by historian Samuel Yamashita , had infused American fine dining with Japanese influence since the 1980s. What Jiro changed was making the style of dining mainstream, and inspiring more people to explicitly seek it out. Of course, austere temples to sushi existed in the U.S.

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‘Chaos Cooking’ Is Coming — Are We Ready?

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He felt strange cooking “authentic” Indian food as someone who was born in America, and he recognized he had other influences growing up in California that felt just as important to him as those of his family’s heritage. “I always wanted to cook Indian food, but I want to do it my way,” he says. And half the time they’re basically pranks.