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Do food the French way - grow it on your roof! In recent years people have become more aware of exactly what is in their food, but patrons of one restaurant in Paris need not worry, as they have a unique way of assuring that their food is ethically-sourced - by growing it on the roof. Read more from The Independent   Long views and long delays: a look at The Shard's Hutong restaurant Visiting the restaurants is a good way of gaining ‘free’ access to the pointy place but, as it turns out, what is recouped on entry fees is lost in time. Read more from Metro   Two new weird-shaped hotels: China's 'Horseshoe' and Peru's 'Frame Hotel' A taste for strangely-shaped hotels seems to be sweeping the world with the unveiling of China's 27-storey Sheraton Huzhou Hot Spring Resort in Huzhou, near Shanghai, and plans for a wonky-picture-frame-shaped hotel on a cliff side near Lima called the 'Unbalance Hotel'. Read more about The Sheraton here. Read more about the 'Unbalance Hotel' here
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Editor 25th July 2013

Daily news round up: our selection of food and chef news from the world's press