Marina O'Loughlin, London newspaper Metro's restaurant critic, has remained incognito for the past 11 years.

BBC: Postcard from Edinburgh

Foodlab at the Society for Arts and Technology, near the St Laurent metro station in the Latin Quarter, is a casual restaurant with creative, budding chefs and a menu that varies depending upon the week's theme of experimental recipes.

BBC: Business trip: Montreal

Where, except New York, would a curator put a metro station in a museum of modern art, and what restaurant could be more self-consciously Parisian than Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles in Manhattan?

ECONOMIST: Paris