Each week, we choose four cities and round up the latest bar and restaurant openings, recipes, and general food-related chatter.
Paris' Michelin starred chef Alain Ducasse—one of our favorites—launches an iPhone app, available in both French and English. Features include the ability to book tables at each of his restaurants, and École de Cuisine Alain Ducasse. No recipes within, yet, but word is they'll be included in version 2.0. Ducasse will be in New York this Sunday, celebrating the app's launch with our friends over at the Wired Store.
Tickets are now on sale for the 2011 Food & Wine Classic in Aspen. The blowout doesn't take place until mid-June but, like last year, is expected to sell out in the next few days. The festival's perennial favorites include Bobby Flay, Danny Meyer, and Tom Colicchio.
Los Angeles' Library Bar mixologist Matt Biancaniello has upped the bizarre cocktail ante with candy cap mushrooms and white-truffle infused drinks for the holidays. The start of a bar-grown herb trend of sorts—and a welcomed addition to the tropical one currently on the radar. Biancaniello's next project involves his own colony of bees: manipulating the honey's flavor himself with plants.
Miami Beach's Wynnwood Kitchen & Bar is now open, in conjunction with Art Basel. Beyond the graffiti murals by Brazilian artists Os Gêmeos and farm-to-table foodstuffs—tomato gazpacho, calamari tempura, lamb burgers—we're most turned on to the list of Artist Cocktails. A promising inclusion: the complex, spicy David Ellis with squid ink, hot sauce, Bacardi 151, olive brine, and horseradish.
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