Emotion + Taste

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By Katrina Meynink

Published 2014

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Nobody goes to a restaurant just to eat. They go for the experience. And no experience is quite like bistronomy. Haute cuisine for the people.

At its most rudimentary, bistronomy is the food without the pomp and circumstance. It is a growing culinary culture that celebrates integrity, simplicity and democracy in dining. Rather than a Chinese whispers version of gastronomy trends and its leaders, it is a food approach based on building a direct relationship between garden, kitchen and diner, with a real sense of place, produce and the wine that might be drunk alongside. It is a combination of bistro (a nod to the traditional dishes that form the starting point for many bistronomy chefs) and gastronomy (a reference to the haute cuisine techniques used to update them).