When the glitterati descend on Cannes for, perhaps, the most glamorous film festival on earth, the city’s restaurants will also be kicking into high gear as they prepare to feed the world’s biggest stars. With 316 brasseries, wine bars, and fine dining restaurants dotted throughout the city, visitors can choose between eateries that serve a [...]

Pop! Sotheby’s has launched its own private-label champagne, the first from an auction house, with a bottle costing $29.99 and a magnum $69.95. The bubbly is being produced by sixth-generation French champagne house R & L Legras, which supplies many Michelin-starred restaurants such as Guy Savoy, La Tour d’Argent and Ledoyen. The in-house brand will [...]

For the second year in a row, Zagat readers have named Michelin-starred The Ledbury as the London restaurant with the best food in a new report released Wednesday. In the 2012 London Restaurants Survey, 5,500 diners named the Notting Hill eatery as their favorite out of 1,190 establishments in Greater London for its haute French [...]

The editors at the Pursuitist have recently tasted the latest ultra premium silver tequilas. One, Corzo Tequila Silver, stood above the rest. So much so, Corzo Tequila Silver is Pursuitist Recommended. From the smooth and sipable taste, to the stylish bottle, it doesn’t get much better than Corzo Tequila Silver. Corzo Tequila Silver is an [...]

Brad Pitt has been tapped to star in a movie based on the controversial book The Billionaire’s Vinegar based on the true story centred around a bottle of 1787 Château Lafite Bordeaux, purportedly owned by Thomas Jefferson. The movie, which is slated to hit theatres this year, is produced by Will Smith who bought the [...]

Update: The Pursuitist has been invited to the Cannes Film Festival. We will be the guest of Rémy Martin, the official sponsor of Cannes. Join us as we live blog our Cannes luxe experience May 22-26 — with great food, drinks, hotels, movies and much more. We’re staying at The Five Hotel & Spa — [...]

L’Etoile, our favorite restaurant in Madison, Wisconsin (hell, it’s our favorite restaurant in the entire state of Wisconsin), has a wonderful new honor — the James Beard Foundation has named Tory Miller as the “Best Chef Midwest.” This is the second time a chef from L’Etoile has taken home this award, the first begin Odessa [...]

The title of Paris’s best baguette has, for the fifth time in six years, gone to one of the bakeries situated in the city’s 18th arrondissement. And while first-time visitors to Paris may delight in any which baguette from any which bakery, not all are created equal. Here’s primer on how to tell a good [...]

Chocolate lovers everywhere, prepare for a scrumptious and opulent treat! Believed to be the world’s most luxurious chocolate experience, this extravagantly wrapped box in the photos below comes from a company called “The Chocolate” and promises to hide within an unforgeable taste. The Chocolate company produces “luxury truffles”, with carefully selected ingredients. The cacao beans [...]

If it’s true that cities like L.A., New York, Miami and Chicago dominate the food truck scene for the States, then one of the top international contenders has to be London. What was seen as a mere trend a few years back has developed into a citywide permanent structure, albeit a rolling one, and a [...]

Noma restaurant has been named the best in the world for a third year running in an international survey. The Copenhagen restaurant, serving Nordic specialities in a quayside warehouse, topped the World’s 50 Best Restaurants list compiled for a 10th year by more than 800 international experts for Britain’s Restaurant magazine. The magazine called Noma’s [...]

The fantasy of time travel is simply a daydream one never expects to embark upon. But as you step into the stately venue of the former ticketing headquarters for London’s St. Pancras Rail Station, murmurs of hurried travelers beginning their journeys linger in the air and you begin to believe time travel is possible. The [...]

Brilliant. Churchkey Can Co. is a new pilsner packaged in retro flat top cans, brought to life through a partnership between “Entourage” star Adrian Grenier and friend Justin Hawkins, who came up with the idea. Partners include the Ball Corporation (which designed the can), a few homebrewers in Portland, Ore. (who designed the recipe) and [...]

The chef of the best restaurant in the world will be opening a pop-up version of his Copenhagen restaurant Noma in London this summer to mark the Olympic Games. Best known in the culinary world for pioneering the foraging movement in which chefs use hyper-local ingredients like wild herbs and plants, René Redzepi will be [...]

Some brands are appreciated worldwide and to thousands of people, they are “sweet as candy”. Perhaps it was today’s consumerism and the crazy run for fashionable items that inspired the conceptual photos of artist Massimo Gammacurta. “Lolli-Pop” is a series of photography that portrays art… in its modern and materialistic sense.   According to BIS [...]