restaurants
Gadgets
What Is This?
12:00AM Nick Kokonas | About 30 per cent of our new hires walk into the kitchen knowing exactly what this is. More »
Science
Why They Don’t Serve Snow In Restaurants (Yet)
2:00AM Nick Kokonas | People have been eating snow since the fourth century BC, but nowadays the behaviour is discouraged by parents the world over. People make ice creams, sorbets, gelatos, etc. every day. We wanted to make snow. In the kitchen. It’s hard. More »
Gadgets
World’s Biggest Chocolate Fountain Is A Willy Wonka Wet Dream
4:40AM Sean Fallon | If you have ever had the privilege of dining in the Bellagio restaurant in Las Vegas, you probably stood in awe of Jean-Philippe Maury’s breathtaking 8-metre chocolate fountain. More »
Science
The Alinea Challenge: Help Us (Really) Flatten Food
11:20PM Nick Kokonas | Help! We want to flatten food. I mean, really flatten it. Maybe even fuse foods together in the process. And to do it, we’ll need your ideas. More »
Business
Thought For Food: Alinea’s Reinvention Of Cooking And Eating
5:20AM Nick Kokonas | In his Taste Test guest editor intro, Nick Kokonas recounts meeting chef Grant Achatz and founding Alinea, a restaurant that cooks food by freezing it, distills ingredients’ essences to vapour and questions the very eating utensils you use everyday. More »
Vehicles
First Commercial 747 Is Now a Crappy Restaurant in Korea
11:00PM Jesus Diaz | It may not be in the World’s 50 Best Restaurants list and, looking at it, you don’t have to wonder why. But this rusty Korean restaurant is special: It’s the first commercial 747 ever flown. More »
Random Stuff
iPho Is Apple’s Favourite Vietnamese Restaurant
11:30AM Jason Chen | I saw a Vietnamese restaurant yesterday. Not only was its name iPho, which would be bad enough by itself, but its “o” was replaced with an Apple. Yeah. More »
Press
Chuck E. Cheese: A Place Where Mums Punch Dads In the Face
3:40AM Brian Lam | Chuck E. Cheese is a place for mum-on-mum deathmatches. An uninvited kid joined another kid’s party. And when the cops finally showed up, they found a rumble between 40 bloodthirsty parents. More, plus video: More »
Games
Beijing WoW-Themed Restaurant Replenishes Your Health in Real Life
5:00PM Elaine Chow | A Beijing man has opened a restaurant themed after his favourite MMORPG: World of Warcraft. After chomping down food, inspired by dishes from Azeroth, customers can log on at various terminals to play WoW. More »
Design
