Tokyo: A Taiwanese eatery famed for its dumplings was crowned Asia's best restaurant, while restaurants in Beijing claimed the lion's share of spots in the top 10 of a new survey of the food-obsessed region's best dining. Five Indian restaurants made it to the list of 101 best Asian restaurants.
Din Tai Fung in the Taiwanese capital Taipei was ranked number one in the inaugural "101 Best Restaurants in Asia" list, released on Thursday by the US-based food website The Daily Meal, which does similar polls in the United States and Europe. "Ultimately we chose...a place best-known for doing one thing absolutely perfectly," said Colman Andrews, editorial director of The Daily Meal, adding that they were aware their selection of the restaurant, which has spun off into an international chain, would be controversial.
Half of the top ten restaurants were in Beijing, with Duck de Chine - noted for its Peking duck - at second place, and the Chinese-style nouvelle cuisine Green T House at third. "Our feeling is that Shanghai has had a good reputation as a restaurant city for some time, due both to a strong regional cuisine and the early incursions of Western celebrity chefs...but that Beijing is definitely catching up," said Andrews.
"It's an imperfect analogy, but in a way the culinary contrast between the two mirrors that between New York City and Washington DC. The former is more famous as a food city, but Washington increasingly offers serious competition - usually just
10:31 AM, May 16, 2013
Bangalore: In a last-minute bid to woo Bangalore voters, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday promised to extend the city's nightlife by two hours if voted to power. The BJP claimed it will extend the 11.00 pm deadline to 1.00 am for restaurants and up to midnight for bars. The party also promised to build a new reservoir to cater to the city's water problem. ...
11:32 PM, May 02, 2013
Hotels and restaurants across the country are on a one-day token strike to protest against what they call excessive taxation announced in the Union Budget. ...
05:32 PM, Apr 29, 2013
Mumbai: Around 20,000 hotels, restaurants, licenced tea and snacks outlets as well as ubiquitous vada-paav stalls in Mumbai go on strike to protest the new service tax (ST). "In Mumbai, around 18,000-20,000 hotels and restaurants have expressed solidarity with the move to protest the new ST on fully or partly airconditioned eating houses," Indian Hotels and Restaurants Association (AHAR) general secretary Shashikant Shetty said. Monday's action is part of an...
10:55 AM, Apr 29, 2013
Authorities in Mumbai are playing party pooper ahead of the new year's eve. They have come up with a list of new regulations that will make partying costlier. ...
09:54 AM, Dec 26, 2012
Chennai: There is a glimmer of hope for power authorities in Tamil Nadu after the Cabinet approved a bailout package for the sector on Monday evening. From a 2,000 mega watt crunch a year ago, the state now suffers a deficit of almost 4,000 mega watt. The electricity crunch in Tamil Nadu that hit homes and industries has now hit the hospitality sector. Hotels and restaurants have been asked to...
10:14 AM, Sep 25, 2012
Mumbai: Controversial Mumbai cop Vasant Dhoble, who hit the headlines for his late night crackdown on pubs and restaurants, has been shunted out of the social service branch and moved to the city's western suburbs. Dhoble will now be ACP at Vakola division. An order to this effect was issued last night by the Maharashtra government's Home department. Armed with a hockey stick and camera, Dhoble, known as the 'night...
07:40 PM, Sep 16, 2012
Beverly Hills: A Los Angeles restaurant is offering a deal to customers who agree to look at their fellow diners instead of their phone screens. Eva Restaurant is giving a 5 per cent discount to customers who will leave their cellphones with staff when they are seated. Owner Mark Gold told KPCC radio on Tuesday that the policy isn't about other diners who might be annoyed by cellphone chatter or...
10:35 AM, Aug 17, 2012
Hyderabad: Municipal health officials conducted surprise raids on 12 commercial establishments - hotels and restaurants, sweet shops and other food joints - in Circle No. 10 in the city on Thursday and found several irregularities. The raids were conducted by GHMC chief medical officer-health Shalini Devi and assistant medical officer health (Circle 10) Balaji Raju, along with a battery of food inspectors, under the supervision of GHMC additional commissioner (health...
02:13 PM, Aug 10, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: During the last several months, the City Corporations food squad has not carried out a single checking in city hotels. That it is a toothless tiger when it comes to reining in faulty food joints being the main reason. The death of Sachin Roy Mathew, a hotel management student, in Bangalore allegedly after consuming shawarma from Salwa Cafe, a food joint in Vazhuthacaud, naturally points to the limitations the...
01:15 PM, Jul 18, 2012
ACP Vasant Dhoble is infamous for targeting restaurants and attacking their owners and waiters in the name of moral policing. ...
11:58 PM, Jun 21, 2012
ACP Vasant Dhoble is infamous for targeting restaurants and attacking their owners and waiters and sometimes, even the unsuspecting customers. ...
11:53 PM, Jun 12, 2012
Mumbai: Crusader or vigilante cop? Meet ACP Vasant Dhoble, head of the Social Service Branch of the Mumbai Police. For months, Dhoble has been on the warpath, making headlines for raiding and assaulting restaurant staff across the city, be it at hip restaurants, small eateries, private parties, or dance bars. At a juice centre in Vile Parle, his weapon of choice was a hockey stick for assaulting the waiters. Sixty...
07:53 PM, Jun 12, 2012
Danish restaurant Noma in Copenhagen was crowned the world's best restaurant for the second year in a row in an annual list, beating out top eateries in Spain, Italy, Britain, the United States and elsewhere. Following is a full list of the top 50, as chosen at the S Pellegrino World's 50 Best Restaurants awards, produced by Britain's Restaurant Magazine. 1. Noma, Denmark (www.noma.dk) 2. El Celler de Can Roca,...
01:04 PM, Apr 20, 2011
London: Danish restaurant Noma in Copenhagen was crowned the world's best restaurant for the second year in a row in an annual list, beating out top eateries in Spain, Italy, Britain, the United States and elsewhere. The S Pellegrino World's 50 Best Restaurants, produced by Britain's Restaurant Magazine, were unveiled in London after voting by a panel of more than 800 chefs, restaurateurs, journalists and food experts who rated Noma's...
10:43 AM, Apr 19, 2011
Shanghai: Visitors to a fast-food restaurant in Shanghai may be pleasantly surprised when they are served food cooked by two robot chefs. The robot chefs at the Wishdoing restaurant on Shanghai's Nanjing Road can cook delicious Chinese cuisine within three minutes. They can serve customers eight popular dishes, including "crowd-puller dishes" like Kung Pao chicken, spicy diced chicken with peanuts and Mapo Tofu, bean curd with chilli sauce. The workers...
10:39 AM, Feb 18, 2011
Afton: An Olympic champion wrestler has been serving a 1.5-pound hamburger at his Wyoming restaurant, even while competing to be "The Biggest Loser" on TV. The mighty Rulon Burger at Rulon Gardner's Burger Barn restaurant is so big it's molded in a pizza tin. It comes on a bun with all the toppings. Gardner won gold at the 2000 Olympics by beating Alexander Karelin, a Russian who hadn't lost in...
02:34 PM, Feb 03, 2011
