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Insider Guide To The Food Of Vilnius.  Lithuania’s wonderful historic capital.

12/11/2024 by .
In his insider guide to the food of Vilnius, Rupert Parker Eats His Way Through The Old Town and still manages to get a few sights in.

In his insider guide to the food of Vilnius, Rupert Parker Eats His Way Through The Old Town and still manages to get a few sights in.

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Terranima

Bari is so unrepresentative of Puglia – the formal, imposing and rather austere capital of a region which is all about charm, informality and joie de vivre – that it’s surprising to find a suitably charming and informal restaurant in its back streets.
Terranima is a microcosm of rural Puglia – its trompe l’oeil decor is designed to evoke the feeling of a street in one of the region’s hilltop towns – and the food is utterly authentic.

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Isle of Eriska Restaurant

Head chef Ross Stovold has a lot to answer for as far as I am concerned. The former top man at Michelin-starred Alimentum in Cambridge has brought his Michelin magic to the Isle of Eriska restaurant, within the family owned hotel sitting on its very own Scottish island.

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L'Orangerie du Chateau L’Orangerie du Chateau

Magnificent L’Orangerie du Chateau Restaurant. Loire Valley

Lucy Daltroff heads for the Loire Valley as she dines at L’Orangerie du Chateau Restaurant.

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Bovino Main

Bovino steak restaurant open in Quinta do Lago

Quinta do Lago, the exclusive estate resort in the Algarve, has just launched a  new steak restaurant, Bovino. The latest addition to the resort’s impressive gastro scene offers modern steakhouse dining within an urban design by international designer, Lázaro Roza-Violán.

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Engawa

To say the china was as memorable as the food could be a veiled insult when applied to a lesser restaurant. But the spectacular Engawa, filling a niche for high-end Japanese dining in the heart of Soho, is as much a feast as much for the eyes as the tastebuds.

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Gusto by Heinz Beck

Gusto by Heinz Beck

Conrad Algarve is, as far as I am concerned, a template for doing 5 star luxury properly, so it comes as no surprise to me that Conrad Algarve’s flagship restaurant, Gusto by Heinz Beck, would be anything else but stellar. I mean, the very name is a play on the Portuguese word for taste, gosto, even though it was named after Conrad Hilton’s father Augustus.

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