the menu cover
There are not many people who would plan the visit to a two michelin starred restaurant only as a preamble to a dinner at a trattoria, no stars, no toques, no nothing. There are even less people who would do this over one weekend, leaving regular office jobs on Friday afternoon and [...]
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thornback ray (skate)
Tuesday night we had a much anticipated dinner in a Stuttgart institution adorned by one Michelin star and had to think about and discuss our experience for a couple of days till we came to a conclusion: We think Vincent Klink in his Wielandshöhe is not a happy chef.
Yes, we [...]
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tarte Tatin
There are many ways to bake an upside-down apple pie. As with everything that claims to be a traditional, classic dish, there are a lot of discussions about the rights and wrongs. Even I have baked many different versions of an upside-down pie which I have carelessly called “tarte Tatin” and now I am [...]
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local food?
We love travelling. T. and I have seen most of Europe, most of both Americas, some Africa, a lot of Asia (not necessarily all of this together). The only continent we haven’t been to is Australia, although T. was close. We are not the most adventurous types (sometimes we backpack, sometimes we are [...]
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le restaurant Lavinia
We ate the best chocolates and macarons of our lives in Paris, but the highlight of the trip got to be our lunch experience in Lavinia. It is actually a 3-story wine shop, where they classify their wines in price categories as “under €50, 50-100, 100-250, 250-500 and over 500″…. [...]
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