Extraordinary Places to Eat

It must be hard being an award-winning chef. You go for dinner, but all you do is nitpick – the starter overdone, the main underspiced… It takes perfection to make it into their little black book. With this in mind, Fred Sirieix – one of London’s most famed maître d’s – heads to Venice to try chef Angela Harnett’s top eats, tucking into local langoustine, pilgrim scallops and semifreddo tiramisu

Make sure you have some snacks to hand, plus something to mop up all that drool as you enjoy this whistle-stop tour around Edinburgh’s finest dining locations. There’s a succulent mix of fine dining and traditional grub on offer as venison-liver parfait, wagyu beef and traditional fish and chips are all on the menu. Plus, for dessert, you’ll get to witness a cow being massaged. Yum!

Paris? And food? Do they go together? We will find out during this dash around the most sensational eateries the City of Light has to offer, in a vintage Citroen, no less. There’s gourmet fare in a restaurant founded in 1582, plus the finest example of that delicious French staple the jambon-buerre and a glorious seafood platter. And something happens to a duck that must be seen to be believed.

You’ll be needing those sweatpants with the elasticated waistband after overindulging on this culinary treat. The Spanish city of San Sebastián is a foodie hotspot, featuring some of the finest restaurants on the globe. But it’s not all edible gas and quinoa. There’s the traditional tapas bar that boasts the finest tortilla found anywhere and the restaurant that only features one menu item: steak.

Marrakesh has a rich and exciting food tradition. But in recent years a tourist boom has led to a plethora of places catering for the less adventurous palate. TV chef Andi Oliver won’t stand for that. She takes Fred Sirieix to some divine eateries in the city including the spot with the single best lamb dish and a tremendously tasty tagine hidden in the most unlikely of places. A gas station!

Austria's capital Vienna is famous for many things. But food isn’t necessarily one of them. This terrible injustice is set to be rectified by food writer Rachel Khoo, whose grandma is Austrian. She indulges Fred Sirieix in strudel fit for an emperor, dumplings that ooze comfort and, of course, lashings of hot sausage. Can she convince Fred that Viennese cuisine deserves more recognition?