Top Tables
Voodoo lounge EDINBURGH-BASED CHEF Dario Pacifici has cooked for the likes of Hugh Grant and U2, and now he wants to feed you… crocodile. Served with pork crackling and baby quail, it’s one of the more eye-catching ingredients on the menu of his Creole-influenced The Voodoo Rooms. You might baulk at that, but surely you can’t knock the [...]
Voodoo lounge
EDINBURGH-BASED CHEF Dario Pacifici has cooked for the likes of Hugh Grant and U2, and now he wants to feed you… crocodile. Served with pork
crackling and baby quail, it’s one of the more eye-catching ingredients on the menu of his Creole-influenced The Voodoo Rooms. You might baulk at that,
but surely you can’t knock the Bourbon crème brûlée – and if someone has wronged you, then stab at a walnut cracker voodoo doll with a caramel spear.
The Voodoo Rooms, 19a West Register Street, Edinburgh, +44 (0)131 556 7060; www.thevoodoorooms.com
Sushi. surprise
Jersey’s abundance of seafood is now leading the way for sushi and sashimi
restaurants. Sequestered away in the unlikely location of the Jersey Pottery
premises is a new sushi bar, overseen by sushi chef Richard Cicero Mico. The
freshest mackerel, prawns, octopi and scallops form the basis for his sashimi,
nigiri and gunkan. Corporate groups can even go into the kitchen and create
their own sushi, with Mico’s assistance, as a team-building exercise.
Jersey Pottery Sushi Bar, Gorey Village, Jersey, +44 (0)1534 850 850;
www.jerseypottery.com
Chicago homecoming
Takashi Yagihashi, a Japanese chef with a French education, was lauded
in Chicago for his fusion menus before leaving to establish his hit
Las Vegas restaurant Okada. Now, he’s back with a new Chicago
restaurant for 2008. Organic ingredients dominate at the eponymous
Takashi, with more of his Japanese-French fusion. There’s also a sake
menu and local beers from Yagihashi’s other hometown, Ibaraki, Japan.
Okada, Wynn Resorts, 3131 Las Vegas Boulevard South, Las Vegas,
+1 702 7770 7000; www.wynnlasvegas.com
Takashi, 1952 N. Damen Avenue, Chicago, +1 773 772 6170;
www.takashichicago.com
