The Telegraph s top 25 restaurants for dining indoors this summer
There’s no substitute for the buzz of a restaurant dining room, and these are the favourites we ll be racing to visit once more
17 May 2021 • 12:20pm
Telegraph writers and chefs reveal the top restaurants they can t wait to visit now they ve reopened
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Right, where were we? Can you remind me? Ah, yes – restaurants! I remember them. Or rather, I remember what they used to be. Whether it was a big, blousy room putting on a seamless show even as it allowed the diners to take centre stage, or a self-consciously curated little space in which the punters’ intimacy with the process was essentially what made the food enjoyable, I remember the way that good (and, indeed, less good) restaurants used to make me feel: thoroughly, in-the-moment alive. Which feels like a lifetime ago, does it not?
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Belmond has launched a new collection of experiences in Europe designed to help clients reconnect in the wake of the pandemic.
The brand unveiled the first chapter of its new travel series this week, featuring 13 land, rail and yacht experiences on the continent.
Chapter 1: European Escapes includes a tennis weekend at La Residencia in Mallorca with former Spanish tennis star Nicolas Almagro and a behind-the-scenes tour of Venice’s libraries and archives from Belmond’s Cipriani hotel.
Caruso on the Amalfi Coast will offer special-access tours of Pompei, Ercolano and Oplontis this summer, while in October guests will be able to take part in a number of ‘Golden Hour’ workshops with a master jewellery designer.
What top London chefs really think about Instagram
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Heston Blumenthal is famously exacting about the dining experience. He tries to create “sensory memories”, controlling not only the way his dishes look and taste, but what his diners are listening to while they eat. His The Sound of the Sea, a signature dish at The Fat Duck, came with an iPod Nano playing, well, the sound of the sea. But there was a problem: he was struggling to control the temperature of the food when it actually entered the mouths of those diners, not through any fault of the kitchen, but because people were too busy taking pictures for Instagram.
There s no shortage of top-end Indian restaurants in Mayfair. What will set
Indian fine dining restaurants can be quite samey, there’s a lot of crossover on menus. There’s a formula that works and most stick to it. I say that as someone that loves restaurants like Gymkhana. If you want a butter chicken and a garlic naan there is no better place in London, and I’m not just saying that because JKS Restaurants (the restaurant s owners) are backing me. But there’s room for something more progressive. There’s 4,500 years of Indian food culture and history to explore. The atmosphere at Bibi will also be very different to other Mayfair Indians – we’re going to play old school hip-hop.
In Conversation with Dr Thomas Kyritsis
By Thomas Mielke, Managing Director at AETHOS Consulting Group
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Dr Thomas Kyritsis is the Programme Director of BBA Culinary Industry Management and MSc Culinary Innovation Management at Le Cordon Bleu. He has received a first class BA (Hons.) in International Hotel Management and a MA in Hospitality Management with distinction from the University of West London before pursuing a Ph.D. on the impact of shareholder activism on the corporate boards of international hotel chains. Advertisements
Prior to his academic career, Thomas held a number of managerial positions in the hospitality industry in Greece and in the UK, in companies such as Hilton Worldwide, Doyle Collection, CCTvenues and Dorsett International.