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...Next door at the W, Once Upon a Kitchen lays out a multi-course tasting menu designed by a celebrity chef for $2,500 a seat who personally walks around pouring wine from limited edition magnums....
...April 15-21, Via Guglielmo Pepe 16 L’Appartamento by Artemest Last year, Italian online furniture platform Artemest debuted L’Appartamento, an installation in a 1930s apartment that saw them ask six interior...
...The 2024 edition, which also hosts the EuroCucina biennial exhibition showcasing kitchen products, will bring together more than 1,900 exhibitors, including 600 young talents under the age of 35 and 22 design...
...BUFFS Crémant de Limoux 2021, £22, stjohnrestaurant.com FOR CHAMPAGNE SOCIALITES Ichendorf Milano amber turtle coupe glass, £46.99, at souschef.co.uk FOR SUPER SOAKERS Two litres of bath salts, £160, l-objet.com...
...His work was popular in Europe — in 2007 he was made a Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture — though he claimed to regard this success with suspicion, fearing it...
...Plenty of tricks were used: a dining banquette with a hinged lid for storage, a large glass-topped table, a decadently lacquered L-shaped kitchen and finally, a deep sectional sofa that everyone could pile...
...As she spat rhymes with two pals, Bovell proudly noted, “I’ve been watching them since they were doing that in year seven in my kitchen!”...
...Equally great is the frescoed breakfast room, its trompe l’oeil columns spot-lit, its retro dining chairs painted a cheering shade of red....
...Head to Carrer de l’Argenteria for provisions: Sans & Sans sells teas, and Casa Gispert, a beautiful shop from 1851, roasts all sorts of nuts over wood....
...Since moving to London in 2019, Kwok – who studied art history at university and has worked in food styling and photography as well as restaurant kitchens – has forged a reputation for staging multisensory...
...To change the tone and widen my repertoire, I decided to withdraw to the kitchen and experiment. I am a fundamentalist cook. I follow a recipe to the letter, but I cannot think independently....
...Bonus points for the perfect French omelette at its restaurant, Brasserie l’Émil. An 11/10 recommend....
...The six ensuite cabins, staggered over two levels, evidence this beautifully, from custom Egyptian kilim carpets to the master suite’s trompe l’oeil landscape – made by Greek artist Athan Mytilinaios using...
...The plaster panelling in the salon, for example, is a trompe-l’oeil parchment, hand-patinated by a young Belgian artisan, Mathilde Van der Schueren....
...On the ground floor the two living rooms, kitchen and bathroom soon became crowded with painting paraphernalia....
...BS Issey Miyake is published by Taschen at £80 EAT Ixta Belfrage at The Standard Chef and Mezcla author Ixta Belfrage is taking over the kitchen at Isla, the restaurant at the 1970s-style Standard hotel...
...Website; Directions— Tim Auld L’Atelier Robuchon 6 Clarges Street, London W1J 8AE A particular joy in Paris is to sit at the counter of L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, watching in...
...“The only unitasker allowed in my kitchen,” he likes to quip, “is a fire extinguisher.”...
...With his early career spent in the kitchens of L’Arpège in Paris and San Domenico in Emilia-Romagna, Café Carmellini is the theatrical culmination of exquisite French and Italian cuisine — think Dover sole...
...Last year L’Artisan Parfumeur launched a series of kitchen garden-inspired scents, spotlighting ingredients such as fennel, cauliflower and — most delightfully — pea....
...Website; Directions L’Astrance 32 Rue de Longchamp, 75016 Paris After two years of closure due to works and lockdown, a new page in the history of L’Astrance began when it reopened at its new address...
...A wood-burning fire (there is no central heating) warms the room with its long kitchen table, piano and blue-grey flagstone floor....
...The food was extremely competent and there’s obvious talent in the kitchen, but there’s also apparently a strong countervailing imperative not to scare the horses....
...The kitchen is not big but the quality of the food and the quality of the produce is very important . . . And I love this garden.”...
...Manoir aux Quat’ Saisons, L’Escargot and The Square) before returning to his native Vancouver....
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