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Mirazur Argentine chef-owner Mauro Colagreco (center) celebrates with his team after he was crowned the world’s best Mirazur Argentine chef-owner Mauro Colagreco delivers a speech, flanked by his team, after he was crowned the restaurant during the World’s 50 Best Restaurants Awards Ceremony, in Singapore. — AFP photos world’s best restaurant during the World’s 50 Best Restaurants Awards Ceremony, in Singapore, on June 25, 2019.

rance’s Mirazur restaurant-whose Argentine chef owner of the place was the perfect stereotype of an FMauro Colagreco draws inspiration from the sea, the Englishman on the Cote d’Azur, a white linen outfit and a mountains, and his own garden-was crowned Tuesday Panama hat,” he told AFP in a recent interview. “He saw the world’s best by an influential trade list, beating con- that I had no money but he wanted to know what an tenders from Denmark and Spain. The accolade came just Argentine was doing in Menton... He rented me his restau- months after Colagreco was handed a third Michelin star, rant for a ridiculous sum.” This “gave me a lot of freedom” and was the first time a French establishment has tri- to experiment, he said. The early days were tough but umphed in the World’s 50 Best Restaurant list. “I’m in the since being awarded the second star the restaurant has sky and I’m waiting to come back here,” Colagreco said as seen its popularity grow. Mirazur, located in southeast he collected his award for his restaurant in the French France near the Italian border, offers dishes made with Riviera town of Menton. “I don’t have words to explain,” ingredients from Colagreco’s own backyard farm, includ- he said. ing fresh vegetables and seafood. Despite his growing In second spot in the awards-which took place in fame, Colagreco said that he wants to “keep his feet firmly Singapore, their first time in Asia-was Noma in on the ground.” Copenhagen, and third was Asador Etxebarri in Spain. Gaggan in Bangkok was fourth, the highest ranked Asian In this file photo Argentinian chief Mauro Colagreco poses in First time in Asia In this file photo Italian-Argentinian chef Mauro Colagreco restaurant. Fifth was Geranium in Copenhagen, and sixth front of “Mirazur” restaurant on the French riviera city of For their first foray into Asia, award organizers picked poses for a photo session in the “Mirazur” restaurant on the was Central in Lima, tagged as Best in South America. The Menton. Singapore, which is well-known for its buzzing culinary French Riviera city of Menton. top restaurant award has gone to Spain seven times, the scene. But Europe continued to dominate with 25 restau- most of any country. Last year Italy’s Osteria Francescana Thank you friends for supporting us during these last 13 rants named in the best 50, including seven in the top 10. which is based on an anonymous poll of more than 1,000 took the number one spot. Mirazur took the third spot in years,” he said. Colagreco is the only foreign chef working Asia won seven, the United States six, and Latin America chefs, restaurant owners, food critics and other industry the awards last year. in France to have been awarded three Michelin stars. He six. The awards are organized by British magazine insiders from around the world. Each member gets 10 opened the restaurant in 2006 and was awarded his first Restaurant, owned by William Reed Media. They were votes and at least four of those votes have to go to restau- ‘Feet on the ground’ star the following year, before getting his second in 2012. launched in 2002 and are now as coveted as Michelin rants outside their region. The event has been held before After his victory was announced, Colagreco took to the The Argentine-born chef moved to France in 2001 and stars, although the methodology used to select the best in Spain, London, New York and Melbourne. —AFP stage joined by his Brazilian wife carrying a banner repre- worked with Bernard Loiseau, Alain Passard and Alain restaurants has faced criticism, especially from several senting four flags-those of Argentina, Brazil, France and Ducasse before spending a year at Le Grand Vefour. French chefs who say it remains unclear. Italy. “Thank you my team. You deserve it, all these years. He said that he ended up in Menton by chance. “The There are no criteria for putting a restaurant on the list,

lowly, a slight figure steps onstage. under orders from the Oracle of Delphi he Tomb of the Kings, a 2,000-year- while the Palestinians view the eastern sec- SThe audience goes wild, but Ruth and that she is innocent. She appealed her Told archaeological gem in the heart of tor as the capital of their future state. Bader Ginsburg, matriarch of the case to the Supreme Court of Athens, ask- Jerusalem owned by France, is to Excavations of the site began in the 1860s, United States Supreme Court, calls for qui- ing them to overturn her sentence. “King reopen to the public for the first time since with Felicien de Saulcy of France taking on et. This is no time for celebration-she is Orestes is not happy,” says Electra’s 2010, the French consulate said yesterday. the project in 1863 and seeking to confirm here to judge Electra, the ancient Greek lawyer-real-life Washington legal eagle The elaborate Roman-era tomb with stone it was the tomb of biblical figures King tragic heroine. “I am so excited,” says one Beth Brinkmann. shelves that once held sarcophagi, consid- David and Solomon, giving rise to the site’s audience member as she sees the progres- “He wants to make Athens great again,” ered among the largest in the region, will name. sive pop culture icon, affectionately nick- which has not worked, and so he turned be opened tomorrow, and the following That theory has been ruled out, but the named “the notorious RBG,” enter the against his sister and attempted to “lock Tuesday and Thursday mornings, the con- name has endured. Several sarcophagi scene. “Go RBG!” yells someone else in her up,” argues Brinkmann. It is the first in sulate’s website said. were found inside and are now in the support of the 86-year-old judge, who a series of references to President Donald Visits will be limited to 15 people in 45- Louvre museum in Paris, including one merican television star Kim Kardashian has sparked underwent lung surgery in December. Trump and his infamous campaign slogan, minute stretches, the ticket order page with an Aramaic inscription. According to With a slow gesture, Ginsburg silences “Make America Great Again.” said, noting the need for “proper dress” at the most commonly accepted theory, it debate in Japan by naming her new line of shapewear “Kimono,” prompting some to accuse her the crowd. Her voice, reedy but clear, can the Tomb of the Kings, which is a funeral refers to Queen Helena of Adiabene, in A be heard throughout the room at ‘Dysfunctional’ of disrespecting the traditional outfit. The pop culture icon site. The graves themselves will remain today’s Iraqi Kurdistan, and she may have Washington’s Sidney Harman Hall: “The Orestes’s lawyer, Elizabeth Wydra, has a closed to the public for conservation and built the tomb for her dynasty. After de unveiled the new “Kimono” line on Twitter, revealing she had been working for a year on the underwear to offer Supreme Court of Athens will hear the similarly wry line of argument. “My client safety reasons. The vast site, located in Saulcy’s excavation, the tomb was pur- case of Orestes v. Electra.” Ginsberg, who is the victim of a witch hunt,” she says, in east Jerusalem some 700 meters (yards) chased by the Pereire brothers, a Jewish “solutions for women that actually work.” But the announcement garnered mixed reaction both at home and has become something of a celebrity after another Trump reference-this time evoking north of the Old City, is hidden behind a banking family in Paris that would later being the subject of a hugely successful his favored phrase to denigrate the investi- wall with a metal gate marked by a French hand the property over to France. Israel in Japan, with some offering their criticism on Twitter using the hashtag #KimOhNo. “She’s been to Japan many times. documentary and a Hollywood movie star- gation into Russian involvement in the flag. It has been closed since 2010 due to and France had negotiated the site’s status ring Felicity Jones, enjoys theatrics herself 2016 presidential election. The zingers hit renovations costing around a million euros and reopening, but a French consulate I’m shocked. She has no respect,” tweeted one user in Japanese. “I like Kim Kardashian, but please pick a name as a member of the Shakespeare Theatre their targets, and the audience laughs ($1.1 million). A spokeswoman for the spokeswoman declined to give details. Company’s Bard Association. The group uproariously. Washington is an overwhelm- French Consulate General said that in “We are reopening in accordance with other than kimono if it’s underwear,” wrote another. “The Japanese government should file a protest against offers leading legal figures the chance to ingly Democratic city, and Trump criticisms opening the site, France was implementing the rules we set for ourselves,” she told tread the boards twice a year as part of its are common, both open and anonymous. a decision and a commitment “made a long AFP. Israel’s foreign minister welcomed Kardashian,” wrote a third. Kimono literally means “something to wear,” while Kardashian’s use of it appeared to be a play on “Mock Trial” series, in which they judge But Ginsburg, a figurehead of the left due time ago”. France’s decision to open the tomb. “(I) characters from classical tragedies. to her defense of women’s rights and envi- Jews consider the tomb a holy burial invite the public to visit the site, which has her first name. The new line’s website offered no explanation, and Kardashian has yet to respond to her online detractors. In Monday’s trial, Aeschylus’s tragic ronmental causes, can’t afford to be so lib- site of ancient ancestors and demand the great significance to the Jewish people, heroine Electra has been ordered to pay eral with her critiques. She already came right to pray there. Israel occupied mainly and is further testimony to the deep and And not everyone was opposed to the name, with some users arguing it could offer a chance to promote a traditional outfit damages to her brother Orestes for under fire in 2016 for calling Trump a “fak- Palestinian east Jerusalem in the 1967 Six- multigenerational connection of the Jewish allegedly convincing him to murder their er.” This time, she sticks to fact-based Day War and later annexed it in a move people to its eternal capital Jerusalem,” that is declining in popularity even in Japan. Once a standard of the Japanese wardrobe, the kimono is now often reserved mother Clytemnestra, causing the young questions. —AFP never recognized by the international com- Israel Katz said in a statement. — AFP king to lose both his reputation and his munity. It sees the entire city as its capital, for special occasions, such as weddings and coming-of-age ceremonies, and is mostly worn by women.—AFP mind. Electra insists her brother acted

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