Vince Brothwell
Vince Brothwell writes for AMUSE. about restaurants, drinks, produce and food culture across the six editions.
Stories by Vince Brothwell
Zwiebelkuchen recipe, the onion tart of the harvest
A kilo of onions cooked without colour, a set custard and a yeast base rather than pastry. In the German wine villages it is eaten with new wine, standing up.
Tajarin recipe with white truffle from the Langhe
The Piedmontese egg noodle is almost all yolk, cut by hand and dressed in nothing but emulsified butter. The truffle goes on at the table, never in the pan.
Tom Sellers to run five restaurants at Stoke Park
The chef patron of Restaurant Story takes on the whole food and drink offer of a 300-acre Buckinghamshire estate, opening in October with a 48-cover flagship.
Michelin Guide Netherlands adds eight new restaurants
Sichuan cooking on the Rokin, a sake bar in the Rivierenbuurt and six regional kitchens enter the Dutch selection four weeks before the ceremony in Maastricht.
Alba white truffle fair runs from 10 October to 6 December
The 96th edition opens the season in Piedmont with nine weekends of market trading, a quality commission on the tables and the charity auction on 8 November.
Juno at Olympia opens with 265 covers on 16 October
Incipio Group is putting 11,500 sq ft of Italian restaurant into Olympia's listed National Hall, with a pizza counter rated at 300 pizzas an hour.
Gault&Millau Paris hands its gold to La Table du 11
Jean-Baptiste Lavergne-Morazzani takes the 2027 Gault&Millau d'Or for his Versailles dining room, one of eight prizes handed out days before the guide reached the shops.
Arabica coffee prices fall 10% in a month as Brazil catches up
The contract closed at 292.9 cents a pound on 4 September, down more than a tenth in thirty days, with a record global crop forecast for the coming season.
UK hospitality closures ran at 20 a day this spring
Britain lost 1,839 licensed sites between March and June. It also gained 1,794. The net figure is almost flat, and that is the part worth arguing about.
Taillevent hands its kitchen to Philip Chronopoulos
The Franco-Greek chef takes over on rue Lamennais this month, replacing Giuliano Sperandio, who is leaving the two-star dining room for a project in South America.
Anne-Sophie Pic opens a Paris restaurant at Fondation Cartier
The dining room inside Jean Nouvel's building on rue de Rivoli takes its first bookings on 18 September, five days after her cocktail bar opened around the corner.
Michelin Guide Texas drops its ceremony for a press release
The 2026 Texas selection lands on 8 October as a document, not an evening. After two staged years in Houston, the guide is spending less on the state that pays it.
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