The Most Expensive Steak Restaurant in the World
Your trip to the most expensive restaurant in the world may not be as grand as you expect it to be. Somehow, we have this notion that anything that comes with an exorbitant price tag has to be equally ostentatious and ooh-la-la! Aragawa restaurant, Japan’s first steakhouse located in Tokyo’s Shinbasi district, disproves exactly this notion.
Believe it or not, Aragawa is not just one of Japan’s high end restaurants; it is the most expensive restaurant in the world. Reservations to this restaurant are extremely hard to come by and if you are among the lucky few who do manage to get in, make sure you are loaded with cash or your credit card has enough limit on it, since meal tabs start at $368 per head.
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A Complete Guide to Enjoying Ecuadorian Food
Ecuador is one of the very few countries where a menu at a regular looking restaurant will have the usual fare like lemon-marinated shrimp and pastries stuffed with spiced meats right next to bizarre cultural delights like bull penis’ soup (you read absolutely right, buddy!) and guinea pig meat. This is truly the land that has something for everyone. No matter how strange your taste might be or how unconventional a demand, Ecuador will rise up to the challenge. (more…)
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Acquiring a Taste: Encounters of the first kind with Strange Foods
I’ve always wondered what “acquired taste” meant. It seemed like the sort of thing that the rich and well funded people seemed to possess since most of the expensive foods in the world – beluga caviar, blue cheese, haggis – were the kind for which you had to acquire a taste. I often wondered how did one acquire a taste and where from? Why was there a need to acquire taste at all? What was so wrong with the one you had already?
As you can see, I was completely clueless about the concept of acquired taste and it was only much later I realized that when someone acquires a taste for something, they’ve sort of learned to turn a blind eye to the qualities of food that would make most people gag. It could be smell, the texture, or even the taste. For instance, not everyone likes black coffee and they’d find it too bitter to be able to enjoy it. But, there are those that can swig down black coffee by the liter and not stop for a nano second to consider the bitter taste. That is an acquired taste.
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Know your Way around an Ethiopian Restaurant
The first thing you need to know about Ethiopian food is that it is an extremely, what I would call, “hands-on” experience. You might not find that to be the politest way of having your meals but the range of tastes that your palette is exposed to is stunning enough to be something of a revelation. No foodie worth his salt will choose to skip this wonderful experience.
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The Dans le Noir Restaurant – Offering a Sensory Experience of a Different Kind
Dining is a sensory experience at several different levels. It begins when a divine aroma comes floating from the kitchen, invades your nostrils, tickles the taste-buds in there (trust me, there are taste buds in your nostrils, no matter what scientists say!) and makes the food come to life in your mind, even before you have seen it.
Then it seduces your visual senses when a plate of appetizingly decorated food is placed in front of you. The texture of the food, the consistency of the sauces, the richness of the color, and the freshness of the ingredients send your salivary glands into overdrive and you literally drool at the prospect of tasting the first morsel of something that looks and smells so obviously great. Your palette is the last in line to actually experience the taste of the food. (more…)
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