For years, other cuisines — Italian, French, Japanese — dominated the high-end restaurant scene in Bangkok.
"It's ideal," said Ross Phillips, founder of Tropicsurf, a leading outfitter in the high-end surfing scene.
The high-end coffee scene is expanding — it's never been easier to find a beautifully crafted cappuccino made with small-batch beans and local milk.
Across the city, another third-generation heir to a beloved, long-established fixture on the high-end dining scene has a different answer.
Shanghai and especially Hong Kong are magnets for such expansions and testaments to the globalism of the high-end dining scene today.
With the high-end restaurant scene so crowded in Quito, simply hiring a Peruvian chef may no longer be enough to secure the right clientele.
Dropping what many would consider a week's wages for a few hours of dinner might seem obscene, but the global high-end restaurant scene today is bigger, better and more accessible than ever before.
Lucy has got into the high-end escort scene, sitting in upscale bars, doing a little coke with people she meets, having sex for money with creepy guys, before going back to her scuzzy student house.
Mains $25-3425-34f 7 Ways $450 for 4-8 people Though New York may not boast the same high-end sushi scene as San Francisco or LA, it does have a few heavy hitters when it comes to immaculately fresh fish.
The molecular cooking of the Israeli-born chef Moshik Roth has alternately delighted adventurous locals and ruffled the feathers of those accustomed to the old-school formality of the Gallic-style dining that has long dominated the city's high-end culinary scene.
