Mandarin Grill at Mandarin Oriental Kuala Lumpur now has a new menu thanks to their newly appointed Chef de Cuisine, Sebastian Barcudes. The new menu offers modern, unique dishes with hints of Argentinian elements and I like that Sebastian’s food is easy to understand. We started with the Burrata…
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What do you enjoy eating when you’re feeling blue? There are many items I crave when things don’t go my way, including a nice big slab of ribeye – wagyu preferably. That was exactly what I got when I checked out the new Mandarin Grill menu at Mandarin Oriental Kuala…
I remember my first Christmas alone in the UK – it was particularly cold and dark that year, and almost all my friends went home for the holidays. Mulled wine and minced pie doesn’t taste as good when you’re having them alone and there was no turkey that year; I…
Fine dining was never a forte of mine and it still isn’t – I’m constantly learning from new dining experiences and chefs I meet, both locally and abroad. I learnt a great deal about the fine dining scene when I travelled to Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong, where I explored…
Chef Geir Skeie, winner of 2008 Bocuse d’Or Europe and 2009 Bocuse d’Or World is at Mandarin Grill from 16 to 19 October to showcase Norwegian cuisine to diners. For the uninitiated, Bocuse d’Or is a biennial world chef championship and is reputed to be one of the world’s most…
I first tried Chef Nicolas Isnard’s food in 2011 and found the dining experience to be insightful and memorable. This one-Michelin-star chef was at Mandarin Oriental Kuala Lumpur last week to present some of his signature dishes with highlights of his culinary philosophy – “epicurean approach, respect for the product…
I’m always in for a surprise when I dine at Mandarin Grill, Mandarin Oriental Kuala Lumpur. During my most recent visit, I sampled the restaurant’s latest creations by Chef de Cuisine, Reto Weber. The dinner menu included an appetizer of foie gras ballotine with barbary duck confit, spring morels and…
There are many things worth observing in Mandarin Grill. At the Les Amis dinner, I observed a beautiful lady playing the game of seduction with an older, suave foreigner. During the Igor Macchia/Frescobaldi wine dinner, I noted how some women behaved around the Igor the chef and Bastian the F&B…
“I started cooking when I was 13 and was motivated by the compliments from family and friends.” -Igor Macchia- Michelin Star Chef, Igor Macchia was in town recently and I attended a dinner which featured six of his dishes paired with Frescobaldi wines at Mandarin Grill. Igor has travelled the…
