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Bedding A Celebrity Chef

What to consider when seeking a noted partner for your F&B program

Bedding A Celebrity Chef

As hoteliers embracing serious F&B programs you realize that (or at least designed it so that) guests visit your property as much for your dining options as your sleeping rooms.

With this in mind there are all sorts of things to consider when creating new dining concepts; particularly when it involves bringing in outside talent who bring their own spotlight with them thanks to the popularity of their existing restaurants and, often, television exposure.

Alain Ducasse's 25th Anniversary

An Anniversary Party for a Man and His Restaurant

Alain Ducasse's 25th Anniversary

RENE REDZEPI said he was managing the economic crisis pretty well.

At his little restaurant in Copenhagen, he said, laughing, he was getting 100,000 reservation requests a month. Of course, then it clicked: this unassuming young man of 34, lightly bearded, runs the hottest restaurant in the world, Noma.

And he was here, happily, along with 240 or so other chefs from 27 countries, to help honor Alain Ducasse, 56, the godfather of French cuisine, who invited confreres and consoeurs to celebrate his 25th anniversary running the three-star restaurant here, Louis XV.

How Technology May Help Cut Meat Consumption

Meet: Foodpairing and flavor molecules

How Technology May Help Cut Meat Consumption

One of the most interesting and controversial fields in tech these days involves in vitro meat.

By growing our meat in labs from animal cells, so the theory goes, we could eventually wean ourselves off our dependence on livestock as a protein source.

One day, we may even be able to print our steaks and chops from a 3D printer.

Culinary cocktails

Among predicted bar trends for 2013

Culinary cocktails

Pairing food and liquor as well as locally sourced and inspired drinks were among 2013 bar trends identified by a survey from the National Restaurant Association (NRA).

The NRA surveyed nearly 200 professional bartenders – members of the United States Bartenders' Guild - to find the hottest trends on restaurant drink menus in 2013.

Christmas in a three-star kitchen

Chrismas Eve with Eric Frechon at Bristol hotel in Paris

Christmas in a three-star kitchen

As the clock ticks down to Christmas in the three-star kitchens of the Bristol luxury hotel in Paris, chef Eric Frechon is readying his crew like a general rallying a battalion.

"I love this season because it’s the one that gives the chef the best chance to express himself", Frechon, who opened up the kitchens of the hotel restaurant, L'Epicure, told AFP in the run-up to Christmas.