The ultimate in straight cuisine.
By forgoing fancier fare for straightforward brasserie cuisine, Le Laurentis is able to keep prices down without sacrificing quality.
It's straightforward unadorned cuisine but an experience to savour, like the magical realism of a Borges story, from many angles.
One food critic attributed Schwa's early attention to its unusual combination of "culinary alchemy" and "straightforward Italian cuisine".
Places like this tend to offer food of a certain rustic simplicity: straightforward, unadorned American cuisine.
Ingelstorp (Ingelstorp Byvag, 8, Ingelstorp; 46-411-521-151; www.ingelstorp.com) offers straightforward but refined nouvelle cuisine in a slickly updated industrial setting.
"I tried to create cocktails that are reflective of Japanese tradition, while keeping the philosophy of the cuisine: clean, straightforward and balanced," Soto says.
Which is to say, straightforward Japanese-Peruvian Nikkei cuisine with a touch of the Adrià hyperbole, or at least it will be once they have the "tradition" mastered, according to Mr. Adrià.
With uniformed doormen, a richly appointed dining room and a menu that was among the most expensive in town, not to forget a sedate cigar bar upstairs and a list of bejeweled old Cognacs, Patroon charmed expense-account diners, who indulged themselves in the straightforward yet exquisite American cuisine.
1. Ruth Rogers (left) and Rose Gray are as straightforward as the seasonal Italian cuisine at their groundbreaking London restaurant, the River Café.
