Chevrolet finally revealed the production version of the C8 Corvette ZR1 over the summer, promising us 1,064 horsepower and 828 pound-feet of torque from its twin-turbocharged 5.5-liter V8. That’s some serious power, and it gets even scarier when you remember the Corvette ZR1 is rear-wheel drive. That means the engine sends more than 500 hp … Read more
Last Updated:December 18, 2024, 17:17 IST The latest stores have been launch in partnership with trusted partners like BK Tyres and Resham Tyres. Michelin India. (File photo) The France-based premium tyre manufacturer Michelin has been investing efforts to spread roots in India. To offer more accessibility to the target customers, the company has launched two … Read more
When world’s best restaurant lists are announced, there’s usually one winner. Not so for La Liste, which has just awarded the top spot to nine restaurants this year using an algorithm. The No. 1 honorees are: Le Bernardin in the US; SingleThread in the US; L’Enclume in the United Kingdom; Cheval Blanc by Peter Knogl, … Read more
This summer, Hideaki Sato closed his fine-dining restaurant Ta Vie in Hong Kong, which received its third Michelin star in 2023, for several weeks, reopening it only at the beginning of September. While done primarily for renovations and redecoration following nine years of almost non-stop operation, another reason for the pause was for the chef … Read more
Japan’s Niigata prefecture may be less than 90 minutes away from Tokyo via bullet train, but the area, known for producing Japan’s best koshihikari rice and sake, rarely appears on people’s radar as a food destination. This is slowly changing. Michelin released a special edition of its guide for Niigata in 2020. And in September … Read more
Michelin is not slowing down on its road to expansion beyond restaurants. Last autumn, the century-old guide announced that it would bestow keys – the lodging equivalent of dining stars – to hotels around the world. Last week, Michelin released its inaugural guide to the UK and Ireland. Fourteen hotels received the highest award – … Read more
A Thai cook who became the first Bangkok street-food vendor to earn a coveted Michelin star has said she plans to retire, possibly as early as next year. Tourists from around the world wait in three-hour queues to sample Jay Fai’s legendary crabmeat omelette – always sizzled up by the owner herself over blazing coals, … Read more
Spot at Michelin | Boston Dynamics It’s been four years since the robot wizards at Boston Dynamics declared its dog-like Spot robot ready for the workplace. In that time, the quadruped robot has been trialed in various roles at a number of firms, including for factory mapping at Ford, safety inspections at a Kia auto … Read more
The week before Sam Aisbett opened Akuna in Ho Chi Minh City, in southern Vietnam, he panicked. “I said, ‘What the hell am I doing? What an idiot,’” recalled the Australian chef of the July 2023 opening. There was no way his restaurant, with a menu price of 3.9 million dong (US$155) – at least … Read more
There is a saying among chefs: if you can make it in Hong Kong, you can make it anywhere. Hong Kong has one of the highest densities of restaurants per capita in the world. And according to the 2019 Time Out Index, 92 per cent of people had dined out in the week leading to … Read more
