Cuizine

In Part two of our interview with Joe Beef’s David McMillan we talk about the perils of success, the joy of vegetables and whether the customer is, in fact, always right. Read part one here Did you both come from fine-dining backgrounds yourselves? Both Fred and I worked in fine-dining around the city, I worked [...]

Recently  I picked up a book called The Art of Living according to Joe Beef.’ I’m not trying to find myself, this isn’t a self-help book, it’s a cookbook ‘of sorts’. Yes, there are recipes, but they are interwoven with articles on the history of Montreal, the joys of eating on trains (I know that’s [...]

Catching a glimpse of the Aurora Borealis, the legendary weekend Rúntur (‘round tour’) of the bars and clubs of Reykjavik, bathing outdoors in heated geothermal pool, glaciers, volcanoes… There were many reasons me and my girlfriend wanted to go to Iceland. But it’s safe to say food wasn’t first on my list. My knowledge was [...]

In Tokyo there’s a tiny, underground restaurant that serves sushi. It has a single bar for diners to sit at, fitting only ten at a time, and the toilet’s outside. It’s also been awarded three Michelin stars, bookings must be made months in advance and start at around $300 a head. Its success is down [...]

Peter Meehan is a food writer, rising to prominence (among poor New Yorkers at least) for his regular $25 & under column for the New York Times. As a critic, in this internet age, where anonymity is virtually impossible, you tend to get recognised. After running the review gamut at Momofuku (repeated visits, emails to [...]

Fergus Henderson’s story should be familiar now, but here’s the extremely brief version: Trainee architect loves cooking, does occasional stints at a joint in Notting Hill, starts up full-time above the French House (where Polpetto now resides,) with his wife Margot, gets footfall and critical acclaim. Teams with restaurateur Trevor Gulliver and takes on his [...]

Andrew Stellitano is a food designer. His commissions, by clients like Gucci and Lyle’s Golden Syrup have resulted in creations like geographical lasagne, emoticon bento nori and most famously, the most expensive mince pie ever. Like most art, context adds a lot of depth to his work and reading the explanations and research that has [...]

Situated on Macdougal street in historic Greenwich Village, The Minetta Tavern was a hangout of Kerouac, Hemingway, Ezra Pound and various other literary figures in the years that made the village famous. The area has long gone from bohemian to boho, as is usual with cities the rents go up and artists move out, but [...]

I first heard of David Chang in an article in the Observer Food Monthly that mainly focused on his mythical pork buns, but didn’t really give me much of an impression of his restaurants. I got more of that when watching an episode of Vice’ munchies series (Chang goes to a fried chicken joint in [...]

A couple of weeks back,  we posted up Timmy Vulgar’s DIY cookery show, a tour de force of soulful Mexican cooking from the caustic and often hilarious frontman of deranged alien punk bands Human Eye and Timmy’s Organism. We were so taken with Timmy’s passion for food, we caught up with him over the magic [...]