Food Experiences

  • Vegetarian pleasures at Tian

    Vegetarian pleasures at Tian

    I am most definetely not vegetarian. But as the Vienna-based and vegetarian restaurant Tian was awarded a Michelin star, it interested me a lot. Being (back then) the fourth vegetarian restaurant to carry a Michelin star the cuisine of head chef Paul Ivic should be worth a visit. Tian is located in the heart of…

  • Please get in line for Sushi Dai…and wait 3 hours

    Please get in line for Sushi Dai…and wait 3 hours

    Last year I had the chance to visit Tokyo for a conference. Having a really hard jet lag it was not much of a thing to get up at 3 in the morning to visit Tsukiji fish market and see the tuna auctions. After the auction I headed for a sushi breakfast at Sushi Dai,…

  • 25 years in a drop: A visit to Acetaia di Giorgio in Modena

    25 years in a drop: A visit to Acetaia di Giorgio in Modena

    After our lunch at Osteria Francescana in Modena we visited an acetaia – a small local producer of the iconic Aceto Balsamico di Modena. And our visit to Acetaia di Giorgio turned out to be the highlight of our short stay in the city! First of all, Marcello of Acetaia di Giorgio was very helpful in advance. Since…

  • In Bourdain’s footsteps: Antica Macelleria Cecchini

    In Bourdain’s footsteps: Antica Macelleria Cecchini

    Before going to Tuscany we watched the corresponding episode of Anthony Bourdain’s „No Reservations“ (S3E16) which is quite fun. In this episode Bourdain visits a butcher shop/burger joint/meat place of Dario Cecchini – seemingly a quite famous butcher. Being in the area anyways, we paid a visit. Antica Macelleria Cecchini (the full name of this…

  • A lesson about the difficulties of communication: Osteria Francescana in Modena

    A lesson about the difficulties of communication: Osteria Francescana in Modena

    We spent our wedding-decenarry in Tuscany, Italy. Looking for something special on our anniversary date, I planned a visit to Massimo Bottura’s Osteria Francescana. Since we had been to Noma and El Cellar de Can Roca, it was also a logical addition to our bucket list in order to complete San Pellegrino’s TOP3. The outcome…well,…

  • El Cellar de Can Roca: Literally the best meal of my life

    El Cellar de Can Roca: Literally the best meal of my life

    It started as a crazy plan with friends: After visiting Noma in Kopenhagen, the logical next step was El Cellar de Can Roca in Girona. Back then, reservations were quite tricky since you could get them only by phone on a certain reservation date. So on this given date, I called the number 120 times…

  • Tapas at the circus: Get a ticket for Tickets!

    Tapas at the circus: Get a ticket for Tickets!

    Since I couldn’t make it to Ferran Adrià’s El Bulli back then, a visit at his tapas-bar Tickets was a must for my stay in Barcelona. I love the concept of tapas (of course, they stole it from the Greek mezedes….) and so I was very thrilled what a culinary genius like Adrià would make of…

  • Lower Austria’s pride: Landhaus Bacher

    Lower Austria’s pride: Landhaus Bacher

    Our visit to Landhaus Bacher actually started as a weird plan with our friends Babsi and Jan: Because first came the Wachau Marathon… So we found ourselves running a quarter Marathon in the morning and then (after freshening up and grabbing a bite at Loibnerhof to compensate the sport) enjoying a wonderful dinner at Landhaus…