Get your taste buds ready. From delicious food to incredible surroundings, we've compiled a list of the mouth-watering restaurants you need to try in 2016.
L’Enclume, Cumbria
Voted the best restaurant in the UK’s most recent Good Food Guide, make sure you add L’Enclume (pictured above) to your must-visit list. Located in the in the historic village of Cartmel in the Lake District, this is modern British cuisine at its best, sourcing much of its ingredients from the restaurant’s 12-acre farm. The set lunch and dinner menu will set you back £130.
Wolf Atelier, Amsterdam
The best thing about chef Michael Wolf’s new restaurant Wolf Atelier is not the incredible glass building it’s encased in – although that’s pretty impressive – but the menu which comes in not one, but two versions. The first, ‘Gallery’, features Wolf’s classics like pork belly. Meanwhile the dishes on the ‘Atelier’ menu are Wolf’s latest and often wacky inventions. And if diners like them enough, they might become a permanent feature.
108, Copenhagen
Noma head chef Rene Redzepi has announced plans for a long-awaited second venue in the Danish capital. The restaurant, named 108 in reference to its address on Strandgade in Christianshavn, will be a joint project with chef Kristian Bauman. The menu will focus on locally sourced ingredients including preserved flowers, berries and plants. It aims to open its doors in spring 2016.
Single Thread, California
Kyle Connaughton, a former Fat Duck culinary scientist, will open his own restaurant Single Thread in 2016. The 55-seat restaurant intends to offer three different 11-course tasting menus priced at $200 (£134) per person. Nestled in the picturesque Sonoma Valley, Single Thread’s menu will change seasonally with ingredients sourced from the restaurant’s farm and greenhouse.
Pharmacy 2, London
One of the biggest and most controversial restaurants in London in the 1990s is set to reopen its doors in 2016. First launched in 1998 in Notting Hill, Pharmacy 2, which had waiters dressed in surgical gowns and medicine bottles lining its windows, was the go-to celebrity haunt for Kate Moss and Madonna. Now artist and owner Damien Hirst is working to bring the restaurant to his gallery space in London sometime during 2016.
Chez La Vieille, Paris
American chef Daniel Rose, who won over the French with his restaurant Spring, is set to open a second Parisian venue in 2016. The chef recently purchased the historic two-storey bistro Chez La Vieille which he plans to relaunch and feature a quintessentially French menu. Dishes are said to be around the £9 mark. Rose hopes to open the doors in early 2016.
Made Nice, New York City
If you can’t afford the posh nosh of Eleven Madison Park (at $225 or £150 per person who can?) then get excited because David Humm and Will Guidara, the masterminds behind that restaurant, are opening a cheap and cheerful alternative. Made Nice, which is set to open in 2016, is a counter service restaurant in Manhattan, where a meal of seasonal veggies, grains and proteins will set you back $10 (£7). Bargain!
L’Avant Comptoir De La Mer, Paris
Chef Yves Camdeborde, the man behind popular food haunts L’Advant Comptior wine bar and Le Comptoir bistrot, is set to open his third and hotly anticipated eatery, L’Avant Comptoir De La Mer, in January 2016. The menu will focus on the best and finest seafood; think mouth-watering oysters, clams and shrimp.
And keep an eye out for...
If you like Gordon Ramsay’s famous food then you’re going to love chef Clare Smyth’s new restaurant. Smyth, who until recently was Chef Patron at Restaurant Gordon Ramsay, is set to open her own eatery in London in the autumn. And she has the famous chef’s blessing, with him calling her one of the greatest chefs to grace his kitchen. Watch this space.
Where are you looking forward to eating at in 2016? Let us know in the Comments below.
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