Wining and dining in internationally acclaimed restaurants may be the ultimate foodie experience for well-heeled gourmets. But running three-star eateries can be hell for the chefs toiling over the ovens. Spain's Ferran Adria, the 47-year-old creator of much talked-about and often-criticised "molecular gastronomy", became Tuesday the latest top cook to buckle under the pressure. His El Bulli, crowned the ...

Top French cook Joel Robuchon, a onetime "chef of the century" who threw in his apron to find happiness, on Tuesday approved a decision by his colleague, star Spanish chef Ferran Adria, to temporarily close his kitchens. "He repeatedly told me he'd stop work early in life," Robuchon told AFP in a telephone interview. "He'd say 'You were ...

SINGAPORE (Reuters Life!) - Gourmands have chosen restaurants run by French chef Joel Robuchon as the best in Asia in the latest edition of a regional dining guide which showed the love of good food could triumph over the economic downturn. Parisian Robuchon, whose restaurants across the globe are believed to have the most Michelin stars for any chef, topped this ...