In the short few years since Michelin has been rating restaurants in Las Vegas, Bobby Flay’s Mesa Grill has both earned a Michelin star and lost his star. Mesa Grill currently does not have a Michelin star, and he will have to wait at least until 2011 to earn anther star, as Michelin...
And it probably was in 2008-2009 as well. I never bought for one second the Michelin claim that a “team of inspectors” descended on Las Vegas for a year visiting restaurants multiple times in order to objectively rate them. If you read the atrociously-written guide, you see that the p...
Many sushi chefs in Japan hardly speak a word of English, and will only take reservations in Japanese. Even if the food is amazing, you miss out on half the value of an omakase if you can't talk to the chef at all about the food you are eating. At Yoshitake, you don't sacrifice...
“It’s hinoki wood,” Takayama explained, “which is the wood used in a Japanese shrine. It’s very special, especially the smell—it’s beautiful. Very dense, very hard wood, white, clean. That’s the spiritual wood.” From Rue des Archives/Granger, NYC. Such spirituality doesn’t ...