Lunch at 3* stars Eleven Madison Park was the highlight of my trip to New York. Swiss born Daniel Humm pays a homage to American terroir and cooking traditions without trying too hard or being too conceptual. But this doesn’t mean that the meal wasn’t intellectually entertaining. I didn’t even…

For me, Eleven Madison Park is one of the most interesting New York’s fine restaurants at the moment. First, design-wise – it’s vast Art Deco-style dining room with high ceiling opens your mind for new gastronomic adventures as soon as you enter the building. Swiss-born Daniel Humm is the chef…

Since the vegetables master Alain Passard turned the betterave from a worthless vegetable to a luxury item, the other chefs also stopped snobing it. Up till now, I thought that the Alain Passard’s dish ” beetroot with 12 years balsamic vinegar” was without competition. But everything changed when yesterday I…