Model and actor Anthony Sandstrom reveals his favourite cuisines
Anthony Sandstrom reveals his fondness for Japanese, Italian and North American cuisines
Stepping into Carbone, Anthony Sandstrom does a slight double-take. It's unsurprising as he hasn't quite expected the homage to mid-20th century Italian restaurants in New York.
From the wooden panelling, tiled floors and rustic red curtains to the smooth jazzy Frank Sinatra tunes in the background, and the staff's snazzy Zac Posen velvet jackets and bowties, the team at Carbone has certainly done well in whisking us way back to another era.
"I love it," he says, shortly after his arrival for lunch. "It really feels like we are back in the 1950s or '60s." It is perhaps a fitting restaurant choice for us to take the model-actor out. Seeing as the very word he uses to describe his favourite cuisines is "era".
"I go through food eras," he says with a laugh. That is to say, he goes through phases where he particularly enjoys a certain type of cuisine and his cuisine-du-jour is Japanese food. Not only are the options endless in Hong Kong, but the nature of the cuisine itself fits in with his lifestyle. "I find Japanese food to be quite healthy. It's fresh and low on saturated fats. It works really well when you are trying to maintain a certain diet."
