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Every week we like to bring you the finest Instagram food porn to grace the photo–sharing app and this week we have an especially elegant selection, as befitting a week in which the culinary marvel that is Massimo Bottura’s Osteria Francescana took home the coveted title of World’s Best Restaurant at The Worlds’s Best Restaurants 2016 in New York. You can see how the event itself unfolded on social media here, and as always, get scrolling for the best Instagram food porn of the past seven days.
Instagram Food Porn of the Week
If you’ve ever stumbled upon a root in a food market that resembles a giant white carrot, then that's daikon radish. Here’s our guide to cooking daikon radish – so prevalent in dishes across Asia. This chef hasn’t done a bad job either.
#sake #mackerel #daikonradish #cauliflower # genmai #baqueting #nori #chefslife #japanesefood
A photo posted by @romansturn1985 on Jun 17, 2016 at 7:14am PDT
Francesco Mattucci has become something of an Instagram star with his amazing Kitchensuspension project, which he shoots in his kitchen in Modena, Italy. You can read more about the project here, but don’t expect him to reveal his secrets.
A photo posted by Instagram | Kitchen by Iena70 (@kitchensuspension) on Feb 18, 2016 at 1:59am PST
Where better could there be for a museum dedicated entirely to wine than in Bordeaux? It’s even shaped like wine swirling in a glass. Read more about La Cité du Vin here. Here’s sturgeon a la plancha, with market vegetables and chervil emulsion at the on–site Restaurant Le 7.
A photo posted by The Yum List (@theyumlist) on Jun 17, 2016 at 11:11am PDT
Berber & Q in East London gave us their tip for the sunset drink everyone will be sipping in the UK capital this summer: Mexican Mezcal. The restaurant actually specialises in Middle Eastern and North African meats and mezze, but apparently Mezcal goes great with the sweet and smoky flavours on their menu. Here’s a dainty little bird’s nest of a dessert.
New Dessert: Kadayif with hazelnuts served with clotted cream by @gurelfirarda ?
A photo posted by BERBER & Q (@berberandq) on Jun 14, 2016 at 10:40am PDT
Osteria Francescana, the three star Italian restaurant in Modena, Italy headed by the charismatic chef-owner Massimo Bottura was this week crowned World’s Best Restaurant for the first time, having come within a whisker of the title in recent years. Here’s its famous Caesar salad in bloom. Read our exclusive interview with Bottura here, in which he discusses his social reponsibility project, Food for Soul.
A photo posted by Alessia De Pasquale (@ale_va_de_sfroos) on Jun 17, 2016 at 5:29am PDT
La Sirena, at the Maritime Hotel in Chelsea, is Mario Batali’s first restaurant in New York since Eataly. This is Baba al Campari – "Citrus and Campari-soaked Neapolitan cake with bergamot, grapefruit and basil gelato.”
Another shot by @danielkrieger from @pete_wells's @nytimes review. Link in profile #regram @nytfood
A photo posted by La Sirena Ristorante (@lasirenaristorante) on Jun 9, 2016 at 6:00am PDT
This week we spoke to chef Adoni Luris Aduiz of Mugaritz in San Sebastian about the importance of memory and emotion in cooking. Here is one of his famed dishes: Interpretation of Vanity.
A photo posted by Michael Molesky (@mmolesky) on Jun 14, 2016 at 6:43pm PDT
Discover 26 facts about edible flowers here – if you can tear yourself away from the beautiful display below.
A photo posted by Didi (@bijzonderspaans) on Jun 18, 2016 at 2:09am PDT
Tokyo–based artisan Shinri Tezuka exquisitely crafts candy using a centuries–old technique known as Amezaiku. This is one of the incredibly detailed animal lollipops he’s become famous for.
A photo posted by Follow The Colours (@ftc_insta) on Jun 8, 2016 at 7:11pm PDT
Perfect mini lime pies captured by our snapper in New York – you can almost taste the tartness.
Mini Finger Lime Pies Snapped by @rjkingsays
A photo posted by Fine Dining Lovers (@finedininglovers) on Jun 15, 2016 at 5:17pm PDT
