With just over a month left before World's 50 Best Restaurant Awards, sponsored by S.Pellegrino and Acqua Panna, FDL will be taking a look back at some of the chefs and restaurants who have featured both on the list and on finedininglovers.com.
So far we've revisited Juan Mari Arzak and most recently the Italian chef Davide Scabin. Today we are visiting chef Yoshihiro Narisawa who was awarded the prize for best restaurant in Asia in 2011.
His cooking style is very uniqe harnessing the elements of earth, wind, water and fire in his daily cooking and even going as far as to use charcoal and soil in some of the food he prepares.
Rather than just being faux-meat, Mamu is different. It's a mushroom-based meat alternative that's getting its launch in restaurants so that chefs can test its versatility. Flora Tsapovsky investigates.