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Clockwise from left: Bukchon Hanok Village; Lorenzo Antinori, head bartender at Charles H. in the Four Seasons Hotel Seoul; Line ...

Clockwise from above: the Sangmi course of the Righteous Wish tasting menu at Balwoo Gongyang, including wheat crêpes with water ...

Getting there Qantas, Asiana and Korean Air fly direct from Sydney to Seoul. Stay Four Seasons Hotel SeoulLocated in the CBD, wh ...

DR Curtis Stone’s Los Angeles restaurant has a new lavour.MAGGIE SCARDIFIELD joins the chef and his team for a whistlestop tour ...

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146 GOURMET TRAVELLER T here’s Édith Piaf on the turntable, wine stacked high on the walls, and a dessert station fit for Marie ...

harbourfront of palm-lined Santa Barbara, chatting with Stephanie Mutz, a former marine biologist and the state’s only female se ...

Often the itinerary is shaped by chance encounters; a tomato grower recommends a winemaker, who in turn recommends a seaweed for ...

GOURMET TRAVELLER 149 Above: Maude. Opposite from top: Stone at Stepladder Ranch with co-owner Michelle Rudolph; Handlebar Cofee ...

The pace of change in Bali can make it hard to keep up.Takealeaffromthe address booksof Australia’s best-connectedBali insiders, ...

me & Poolside at The Oberoi. Left, clockwise from top: yellowfin tuna poke bowl; pan-seared barramundi with sambal matah; pr ...

152 GOURMET TRAVELLER G eorge Gorrow, co-owner of Canggu hotel The Slow, first visited Bali on a surf trip with his father when ...

GOURMET TRAVELLER 153 “When my skin looks a little worse for tropical wear, I go straight toAsian Prophecy. After an hour, your ...

154 GOURMET TRAVELLER cocktail bar. Hip-hop music plays to a mix of locals, expats and adventurers in the know, and behind the b ...

GOURMET TRAVELLER 155 best shapers a place to stay and make a few very swish boards. These days they host exhibitions for locals ...

W hen American socialite Wallis Simpson found herself at a particularly tiresome social engagement one evening in the 1920s, the ...

PHOTOGRAPHY ALAMY (TODAY ART MUSEUM), GETTY IMAGES (MINAUDIÈRE, MARGOT ROBBIE, DUCHESS OF WINDSOR) GOURMET TRAVELLER 157 Florenc ...

158 GOURMET TRAVELLER T he word “onsen” is so popular in Japan it has its own symbol (and emoji). Japan is volcanically active, ...

GOURMET TRAVELLER 159 while adding dramatic new design elements. Sarasa Nishijin, in particular, has retained a stunning Taisho- ...

M osab Hassan Yousef, the son of a Hamas leader who spied for Israel for a decade, was in Australia a few months ago on a speaki ...