Michelin inspectors have awarded Hiroshima the city’s first three-star restaurant in the inaugural issue for the region, which now expands the brand’s coverage of Japan’s culinary landscape from three guides to four.

Want to recreate the mythic El Bulli restaurant, or a rudimentary facsimile, at home? Spanish chef Ferran Adrià has developed a molecular gastronomy kit that will allow home cooks to perform kitchen alchemy, spherifying and gellifying foods à la El Bulli.

Brazilian chef Alex Atala has been named one of the most influential people of 2013, the only chef to make the Time 100 list this year.

If you’re an experienced chef who has worked in five-star establishments, aren’t daunted by having to prepare luncheons for the most powerful heads of state in the world, or thousands of canapés for parties of 800, Buckingham Palace wants you.

Spain’s El Celler De Can Roca edged past Denmark’s Noma and Italy’s Osteria Francescana to be named the world’s best restaurant on Monday.

Looking for an afternoon tea service that’s the — clotted — cream of the crop and promises the full British experience?