This kind of bento box is available for lunch at Joël Robuchon’s Japanese restaurant Yoshi (at hotel Metropole in Monaco). The executive chef Takeo Yamazaki used to work at Robuchon in Tokyo. Oishii Yoshi!

Eggplant caviar with raw spring vegetables at Joël Robuchon – Hôtel Metropole Monte-Carlo, in my opinion, the best Robuchon in Europe thanks to the executive chef Christophe Cussac. It’s amazing how much the quality of a restaurant will depend on an executive chef when Michelin starred “chains” like Robuchon or…

A new brilliant dish by Joël Robuchon Monaco executive chef Christophe Cuissac. Emmental zephyr (something between soufflé and cream, literally melting in your mouth!) is married with black truffles sauce and it’s shavings. I hope this culinary masterpiece will be “exported” to other Robuchon locations around the world. Joël Robuchon(2*):…

3 Michelin stars Marseillaise chef Gerald Passédat, whose work and knowledge of fish and shellfish I’ve been admiring for years, has opened a new restaurant in Marseille. The three spaces of Le Môle Passédat are located in the Museum of European Mediterranean and Civilization (MuCEM 1 esplanade du J4, 13002 Marseille,…

Chocolate and olive oil. That’s it. ( Picture was taken back in September).Le Mirazur ( 2*) 30 Avenue Aristide Briand, 06500 Menton,France; +33 4 92 41 86 86

Unforgettable lobster with chanterelle mushrooms, new potatoes and parsley sauce at Mirazur (2*) in Menton. (Images from my first visit in 2012 can be seen here.)

Baked sea bass at the legnedary Club 55 beach restaurant in Saint Tropez.

I doubt that Mr. Ducasse was in the kitchen and cooked this perfection, but whoever is the head chef at Louis XV by Alain Ducasse in Monte Carlo, I must say, he or she is very gifted. What I like about this particular style of cooking that it is so…

This is what you will have a chance to enjoy if you book the right table at 2 Michelin starred Chèvre d’Or restaurant in Eze village… (Rue du Barri 06260 Eze Village, France; tel. +33 4 92 10 66 66) And I must say, the cooking there is some of the…

Bouillabaisse menu at Le Petit Nice Passédat in Marseille – rich, flavorful soup and perfect local fish caught the same morning. What a beautiful interpretation of this classic provençal dish!