Culinary

Air Canada’s 2024 Best New restaurants list was just revealed

The 30 nominees for Air Canada’s Best New Restaurants 2024 were unveiled today, celebrating new culinary talent across Canada. Since 2002, Air Canada has championed the country’s distinct culinary scene through the longest running Canadian restaurant ranking and its signature program, Air Canada’s Best New Restaurants. The 2024 highly anticipated longlist is out today on CanadasBestNewRestaurants.com. Air Canada’s Best New Restaurants is the only

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Swan Hellenic reveals 10 Maris gourmet cruises with Michelin chefs

Cultural expedition cruise pioneer Swan Hellenic has just unveiled its 2025 Maris gourmet cruises aboard the elegant designer ships SH Diana and SH Vega. Each of these exclusive Maris voyages showcases the outstanding creativity of one of the world-famous chefs in the gourmet organization JRE-Jeunes Restaurateurs – all rising stars under 40 who have already won international accolades, including from Michelin.   10 curated culinary cruises For 2025, Maris offers a choice of

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How to make the most of a 24-hour stopover in Lisbon

Lisbon, the vibrant capital of Portugal, is perfect for a 24-hour stopover with TAP Air Portugal.  With its historic sites and delectable cuisine, there are so many possibilities to make the most of your short stay. For those with only a short time to explore Portugal’s charming capital, here’s a guide to enjoying your day in Lisbon. Start at Praça

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Meet the fifth generation Hawaiian family who are changing chocolate

“I’d like to introduce you to a dear friend of mine. He’s very intelligent, he’s highly evolved, he’s handsome and delicious and very shy,” tour guide Alexandria Webster said mischievously. “Friends, this is Theo.” Partially expecting an eligible bachelor to come sauntering around the foliage of the 46-acre Lydgate Farms in Kapaa, Kaua’i, we quickly learn that Theo is short

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Inside the Italian town that gave us Parmesan cheese

On a trip to the grocery store the other day, I found myself standing in the pasta aisle. Stocked between the packages of linguine and penne, rigatoni and fusilli, and hovering above exorbitant rows of pre-mixed jars of pasta sauce, were an army of plastic shakers, crammed with Parmesan cheese. Grabbing one, I rolled the container over and skimmed the

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580 hotel restaurants take eel off the menu to prevent its extinction

The members of Relais & Châteaux’s World Culinary Council have voted to immediately remove eel from their own menus and are sending a call to action to the rest of the group’s 580 hotels and restaurants to do the same. The move comes after its NGO partner, Ethic Ocean, launched an alert that public authorities must urgently listen to scientists who recommend

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