Your gourmet type
✧ The Explorer
The new place nobody can pronounce yet.
You want flavours you have not met: West African spice at a London counter, Syrian brothers in a Dubai strip mall, a Korean tasting menu in a Manhattan basement, Asian cross-over on a Düsseldorf harbour. You read the menu like a map and you order the dish that sounds strangest.
Your evening: An early seat at the season’s most talked-about counter, every course you cannot place, then a bar you found on the way.
Your tables
Five restaurants for this type.
HotspotStarredLondon · Strand
Ikoyi
West African spice, two stars
HotspotStarredDubai · Wasl 51, Jumeirah
Orfali Bros Bistro
The Middle East’s best, in a strip mall
Asian restaurantStarredNew York · NoMad
Atomix
Korean tasting menu, two stars, one counter
Asian restaurantHotspotBerlin · Charlottenburg
893 Ryōtei
Omakase behind a graffiti window
Asian restaurantgourmaris memberDüsseldorf · Medienhafen
Böser Chinese
Asian cross-over on the harbour
The other types
How the others eat.
✦ The Purist
Twenty courses, one counter, no phone.
♛ The Hedonist
Truffles, a big cut of beef, and the bottle nobody else dared to order.
❖ The Classicist
The dish the room has served for a hundred years.
☼ The Sun Seeker
Barefoot, a whole grilled fish, the sun going down.
✶ The Socialite
The table everyone wants, at the hour everyone arrives.