Right next to the historic Courrèges shop on Rue François 1er near the Champs-Élysées, the brand has just opened a new store: Courrèges Millésimes. Concurrently, the Galeries Lafayette will host an exclusive pop up store.
Courrèges is definitely in full bloom. Read More
On-site cooking is fashionable. For some time now people try to eat local, and preferably organic. The French crew La Blogothèque, famous for its videos of ‘Concerts à emporter’ (Take-away concerts), goes one step further and illustrates with a series of videos called ‘Un chef à emporter’ (Take-away chef) how it is perfectly doable and even a lot more fun to cook and eat from what you can gather or get access to in a very short perimeter. Read More
One of the great chefs of Brazilian cuisine, Alex Atala can also be recognized for his constant work to spread the Brazilian culture and keep it alive. Read More
The food fair ‘O Mercado’ has conquered a large captive audience and brought freshness to the gastronomic scene in a city with diverse, but highly expensive dining options. Read More
The foundation of the auction house Saráchaga was led by Juan Daniel Saráchaga on 1938 and its main activity were judicial auctions. It took many years until he saw, in 1958, the enormous potential that existed in art. Since the sixties, Saráchaga’s House started important auctions of luxury and art objects. Some were from Picasso and Renoir, for example, and marked a resounding success that opened a new era in Argentinean auctioning.
Real talents differ from other people because they are able to surprise on a constant basis. Arkady Novikov, the owner of the Gargantuan restaurant empire, just can’t get enough. His most recent venture is a surprisingly tiny bar ‘Kamchatka’ located just opposite the capital’s poshest department store and Bolshoi theater. Read More
Your days off may be an opportunity of contacting nature in a responsible way, do not miss these sustainable proposals! In addition to have a break, the holidays can also be the ideal time to enjoy a different experience. Read More
Gosha Rubchinsky needs no introduction. His collections are regularly displayed in Dover Street Market, style editors are hunting him down at the backstage of fashion weeks in Paris and London.
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Iwao Komiyama, the distinguished chef of Gourmet Channel visited Bogota and Medellin to deliver a gamma of workshops at several branches of the Argentinian franchise Mariano Moreno School of Gastronomy. Read More
Healthy living is to understand which foods and drinks are good for us, so the Argentinean custom of drinking wine is being increasingly studied and recommended. Read More
Friendly, relaxed and homely is Loreto Garden Bar in Colegiales, Buenos Aires, which is amazing in sunny Summer days.
You would have never thought that you could find restaurants that only serve vegetarian or vegan food in Buenos Aires. That would be unthinkable for the typical porteño (as people born in this city are called). Argentina, the land of ‘the best meat in the world’ and ‘barbecue lovers and experts’ –as the popular myth says-, is starting to embrace a new ‘veggie lifestyle’. Healthy and organic are words that are becoming more familiar in our culinary world and more and more food experts and connoisseurs are expanding and incorporating these ideas in their menus and food markets. Read More
Pan Comido vegetarian restaurant
“I like studying in the Colonia Roma because I can eat at a different place every day and I always run into someone I know”, says Laura Cisneros, 21, who eats at least once a week at Pan Comido (on the corner of Tonalá and Chihuahua), a hip vegetarian restaurant in the neighborhood.
Chiles en Nogada are made according to Frida Kahlo’s recipe
Mexico City is everything but predictable. It lives through simultaneous realities like a planetary system; its roots are those of a leafy tree. That is why the cultural paradigms, in this case gastronomic ones, change constantly in fast and irretrievable ways. While some see the growth of fair trade and organic products, others lament the expansion of fast food chains, and some celebrate the arrival of more international food establishments.
Bogota presented the tenth version of the cultural and gastronomic festival Alimentarte, a yearly event that offers its visitors a variety of typical dishes from several countries and Colombian regions. Read More