The mental image of sizzling lap mei (cured meat in Cantonese) clay pot rice cooked over charcoal stoves by the street, or simply a plate of steamed cured meat to spruce up a mid-week family dinner, pops up in the minds of Hongkongers with increasing frequency as the temperature falls down the scale.

For the first time, two restaurants are awarded their first MICHELIN Star!

Situated in Belgrade’s historic quarter, this restaurant has stood near the Kalemegdan fortress and the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers for the past twenty years.

All over the world, the authentic spirit of a city lives and reveals itself along the banks of its river. And that applies even more so to Belgrade. Two rivers flow through it, the Sava and the Danube, and it seems the Celts founded it precisely at their confluence, such that still today the Serbian capital is called “the gateway to the Balkans”.