December 30, 2019
Best Bites 2019: Tokyo
TokyoIn a few years time, one might look back at the year 2019 and feel a bit sorry for it. That’s not for lack of delicious things to eat: record numbers of restaurants continue to open, although fierce competition means around half shut their doors within two years. But 2019 risks being forever overshadowed by 2020,…
September 2, 2013
Lukumas: Glazed and Infused
Barcelona | By Hollis Duncan
BarcelonaThe first thing we noticed about Lukumas, a well-loved Greek doughnut shop in Gràcia, was its creative graphic identity. That should come as no surprise given that Petros Paschalidis, who opened the place in 2010, is in fact a graphic designer. He designed its stylish interior as well as Lukumas’s logo, a rendering of a…
November 8, 2021
Chez Etienne: Pizza Marseillais
Marseille“Those who don’t know Etienne, don’t know Marseille,” insists a French weekly in a piece about the cult pizzeria. They were raving about both place, Chez Etienne, and person, the enigmatic Etienne Cassaro, who transformed the worker’s canteen his Sicilian dad opened in 1943 into a local institution that endures today. Though Etienne’s light went…