Uber delivers too!
Uber has partnered with a French culinary start-up in order to bring resturant-quality meals to foodies’ front doors. MoiChef, the start-up in question, is based in Toulouse and its business is simple: get a good, local chef from a good local restaurant to prepare the various elements of a wonderful meal, then deliver them to a customer to complete the final assembly and eat at home. For this weekend only, when a MoiChef customer places an order, it will arrive courtesy of Uber. In February, Uber launched restaurant delivery service UberEATs in Barcelona and has a similar service in Los Angeles called UberFRESH. rp AFP-relaxnews
Michelin’s ‘Cook of the Year’
French chef and sauce specialist Yannick Alleno on Wednesday scooped the title “cook of the year” in recognition of his highly individual and experimental take on traditional haute cuisine. The annual award, organised by the Gault Millau restaurant guide, praised Alleno as a “great French cook”. Alleno, who was awarded three Michelin stars in 2007, is famed for his re-imagining of modern French sauces. The chef cooks vegetables with the sous-vide technique to intensify their flavour before extracting sauces from them. Since July, Alleno has been in charge at Ledoyen on the Champs-Elysees, one of Paris’s oldest restaurants, following 10 years at Le Meurice. “It’s great encouragement to carry on […]