Happy Plates

• After his 139th visit, John Talbott calls Ze Kitchen Galerie “the gift that keeps on giving,” where “one enters never knowing what to expect and leaves astonished by the creative mind” behind dishes like pigeon with tamarind and mango cappucino. [John Talbott's Paris]

• Pudlo is transported to some kind of quaint colonial fantasy land by the “un-tampered with authenticity” of Q-Tea, where he discovers a “bowl of Chinese exoticism” and Cantonese rice that “passes like a letter in the mail”. [Gilles Pudlowski]