Amethyst review: a tasting menu that circumnavigates the world

Award-winning chef Carlo Scotto’s new restaurant is an ambitious global feast

Tasting menu items at Amethyst
Tasting menu items at Amethyst
(Image credit: Lateef Photography)

Fusion food. It’s a phrase that strikes fear into even the most open-minded of diners. Countless crimes have been committed in the name of joining this cuisine with that. And yet harmonies have also been found. Peruvian and Japanese may have sounded like odd bedfellows to your average UK diner a few decades ago, except – as we have subsequently learnt – Peru’s Japanese diaspora has meant that they really aren’t. Equally, there are often interesting fusion cuisines to be found at countries’ borders, either physical, like between Italy and Slovenia, or historical, such as between France and Vietnam.

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Arion McNicoll is a freelance writer at The Week Digital and was previously the UK website’s editor. He has also held senior editorial roles at CNN, The Times and The Sunday Times. Along with his writing work, he co-hosts “Today in History with The Retrospectors”, Rethink Audio’s flagship daily podcast, and is a regular panellist (and occasional stand-in host) on “The Week Unwrapped”. He is also a judge for The Publisher Podcast Awards.