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Going natural or not?

We have hired the sommelier. He is French, like most people we have hired so far. He likes and knows natural wines, which is good because those wines are really fashionable these days. I like the idea of biodynamic wines that have been made with as little man made additives as possible. My philosophy on [...]
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The first day

Finding a restaurant location was not easy. Maybe I had set up too many constraints. The most limiting constraint – it turned out – was that I wanted to have the kitchen on the ground floor. I have visited what feels like, but surely is not, 1000 premises in London only to find out that [...]
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Excuse the mess

Please accept my appologies for the mess while the content, structure and layout of Gastroville is being updated.
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Gastroville is back to life

After some time off blogging, I have revived Gastroville. Vedat continues to publish his thought provoking and thorough reviews at www.gastromondiale.com. I will continue food bloggning at Gastroville but there will be no restaurant reviews. Well at least probably none. Instead it will be about gastronomy, great produce, cooking, chefs and people who defend great [...]
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Gastroville is being updated

Gastroville is being updated and will soon come back in a new shape. Please stay tuned.
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Dining in France’s top ten best restaurants outside France

Dining in France has just released the top ten French restaurants outside France for 2007. These are Dining in France’s selections are in no particular order: Caprice – Hong Kong, China Domaine de Châteauvieux – Satigny, Switzerland Joël Robuchon – Las Vegas NV, USA Joël Robuchon Restaurant – Tokyo, Japan Le Louis XV – Monte [...]
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The launch of Gastroville

Today is the launch of the Gastroville blog. We hope all readers will find this blog useful and we look forward to your comments. Preferrably mostly praises but constructive criticism is also welcome. We have a number of intersting restaurant reviews coming up over the next couple of weeks. To mention a few we will [...]
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Guide Rouge 2005 for France

Michelin’s guide for France 2005 is out. Well not really, but the press release was hastily released today, prompted by the pre-mature sale of guides on Corsica. Download press release here The press release is erroneous since the new restaurants in each class, except for the new 3-star, are supposed to be marked by N [...]
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