Kokoro Restaurant & Salon de Thé, Paris

A Franco-Japanese husband and wife team bring modern Gallic cuisine to the city center

by Ananda Pellerin Don’t let the bright yellow sign fool you, Kokoro Restaurant is a sea of calm in Paris’ 5th arrondissement. Beered-up students from the Sorbonne spill out onto the pavement only a block away from the restaurant, which is located on the winding Rue des Boulangers alongside a primary school, a few small shops and the city’s first Irish pub. If you’ve spent …

London’s Tincan Restaurant

Renowned architecture firm AL_A elevates canned seafood into a modern meal

by Adam Coghlan One of the more intriguing culinary experiments we’ve seen in some time comes from an unlikely source: award-winning architecture and design practice AL_A. With Tincan—a new six-month-long temporary restaurant and shop in London’s Soho area—the establishment aims to source and showcase the finest (tinned) seafood from around the world and to pilot innovations in both design and technology. Although the idea was …

100-Count Bag of Oysters

Get shucking with this 100-count bag of ultra-tasty oysters, delivered to your door from Cape Cod’s Island Creek oyster farm—the same people supplying top restaurants like French Laundry, Per Se and the White House. Free overnight shipping through 22 December.