One sunny and sticky afternoon, we arrived at a lovely white mansion on a back street in Bangkok to have lunch.

Noma is a three-Michelin-star restaurant run by chef René Redzepi, and co-founded by Claus Meyer, in Copenhagen, Denmark.

All those years we lived in New York City we never got around to eating at Le Bernardin, the legendary three-star Michelin restaurant by Eric Ripert which opened in 1986.

Years ago, I spent a week in San Sebastian to attend a Spanish language immersion class.

Of course there’s no sign for 425 Park Avenue, the newest Jean-Gorges Restaurant in New York. I poke around the massive front entrance to this glass and steel office building in the heart of the city