The most famous of all gastronomic guides is now at your fingertips. With multi-criteria search options you can now choose from almost 32,000 restaurant listings. From the smallest neighborhood eateries through to the most renowned Michelin-starred restaurants...all featured in the 2009 MICHELIN guide !

Before confirming your reservation you can view location maps and access detailed profiles for each restaurant…contact details, ratings, opening hours, prices and, of course... the MICHELIN guide verdicts

As with the ViaMichelin website, you can now review the opinions of fellow diners via your iPhone, enabling you to benefit not only from professional recommendations but also the comments posted by fellow MICHELIN guide users.

By registering for My ViaMichelin, you can share your views directly from your iPhone before you’ve even left the restaurant

Website : www.viamichelin.co.uk

Located close to Montmartre quarter (and so, not so far from the Hotel de Noailles), this italian restaurant, owned by the famous Costes brothers, offers you, for New Year's dinner, a great menu at only 75 € per person :

• Glass of Veuve Clicquot champagne
  
• Chestnut cream, crackling lentils, or, Antipasto di mare, or, Foie gras
  
• Lobster fettucine, or, Marsala veal escalope with black truffles, or, Scallops and black truffles risotto
  
• Grana cheese and balsamic
  
• Christmas ice cake (meringue, chestnut ice, whipped cream) or Napolitan ice cake (meringue, strawberries ice, whipped cream)
  
• Coffee
  

Corso
10, avenue Trudaine
75009 Paris
Tel : 0033 (0)1 48 78 55 81

Let one of the chefs at the Ecole de Cuisine Alain Ducasse in Paris teach you the difference while they lead you by the hand to the market and show you what is the best produce that day, before you return to the kitchen to cook it. “One of the important points about some of our courses is that you can honestly be completely useless in the kitchen,” says Emanuelle Perrier, director of public relations for the new cooking school, which opens on Monday, “and still come here and have a good time with us.”

Welcome encouragement to those who might be intimidated by the idea of a cooking class in Paris’s posh 16th arrondissement, headed by a famous French chef known - among other things - for being the first to have owned three three-star-ranking restaurants in three different countries simultaneously. But in his new 700 square-metre space Ducasse wants the atmosphere to be relaxed. “It’s a place to get together in for the pleasure of preparing and discovering food,” he told recently.

Ducasse is also catering to all different types of food-lovers. There are ten different courses, from “Traditional cuisine” to “Escapist cuisine, to “Gourmet cuisine”, with classes for half-a-day or a full day (depending on the subject.) There are two levels : experienced and inexperienced. There are also English-speaking chefs for English-only-speaking students.

Actually, you can find several cooking schools in Paris but Ducasse’s new one offers quite a diversity of subjects : “We have everything from a class for six to 11-year-olds to a class on the gourmet cuisine of Alain Ducasse”.

Not that their mission is to focus on the well-known chef’s style : “Many cooking schools just teach their own style", "we will do that but we will also teach other cuisines from other cultures”. The school also offers wine-appreciation and pastry-making classes.

L'Ecole de Cuisine Alain Ducasse 64 rue du Ranelagh 75016 PARIS

Tel : +33 (0)1 44 90 91 00

Fax : +33 (0)1 44 24 43 81

Email : ecole@alain-ducasse.com

Website : http://www.ecolecuisine-alainducasse.com

Le Whif (www.lewhif.com) is a revolutionary new way of eating chocolate - by breathing it! Imagine, chocolate without the calories. Be the first to try inhaled chocolate when Le Whif goes on sale later this month in four luscious flavors: mint chocolate, raspberry chocolate, mango chocolate, and plain chocolate.

Harvard professor David Edwards, lead inventor of Le Whif, says: "Over the centuries we've been eating smaller and smaller quantities at shorter and shorter intervals. It seemed to us that eating was tending toward breathing, so, with a mix of culinary art and aerosol science, we've helped move eating habits to their logical conclusion. We call it whiffing."

Le Whif is a terrific way to curb your appetite or to accompany a coffee, and Edwards says inhaled chocolate is just the beginning. New culinary innovations that involve eating by breathing are being developed by the Foodlab at Le Laboratoire, Edwards' art and science innovation center in central Paris.

The product will ship on May 15th 2009