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Xinito: irresistible bluefin fusion
Gastronomy offers an unrivalled pleasure, as anyone with even a basic sense of taste would acknowledge. The satisfaction is all the greater, though, when the recipes or culinary narrative involve or bring together a spectrum of nationalitie...
Why stop off in Tobarra to sample bluefin tuna?
It makes a comforting staging post for summer holidaymakers from central Spain who opt to unwind on the coast of Murcia. It also has a drumming ceremony entered on the World Heritage List (held during Easter, 104 hours of incessant percussi...
Notting Hill Fish+Meat: where the Beckhams and chutoro cross...
A logbook by Sensei Hiroshi Umi. As you stroll around Notting Hill or nearby Holland Park and the local vicinity, you half expect to bump into Hugh Grant waiting for Julia Roberts with a bunch of roses. You imagine that at any moment 007 wi...
Quispe: when bluefin tuna falls in love with Peru
Quispe: when bluefin tuna falls in love with Peru Quispe provides the proof for anyone questioning whether Peruvian restaurants are in the best of culinary health, with a loyal clientèle eager for the flavours and creations they serve up. ...
Nobu: from Barcelona to bluefin tuna heaven
A logbook by Sensei Hiroshi Umi. He almost literally lives out of a suitcase, having lost count of the trips, check-ins, passport stamps and layovers he clocks up over the course of a year. Terse of word, but highly affable, Frenchman HervÃ...
EpÃlogo: the tuna tapa that Antonio López would paint
A logbook by Sensei Hiroshi Umi.  To judge by the flavour of this outstanding dish, he gladly let himself get carried away. If the chef of EpÃlogo had claimed the prize for the best escabeche at Madrid Fusión just a few months earlier, d...