A Las Vegas wine connoisseur achieved a jaw-dropping dining feat in New York City by visiting 28 of the world’s top-rated, award-winning restaurants in just 24 hours.

Joshua Fyksen, a sommelier at Peter Luger Steak House at Caesars Palace, earned a Guinness World Record for visiting the most Michelin-starred restaurants in a single day after completing the ambitious food tour across the Big Apple last May.

“I’ve always loved great food and fine dining,” he told Fox News Digital.

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Guinness World Records announced the feat last month. Fyksen set the record with 22 restaurants in 2023 and later lost the title to a duo who completed it in Hong Kong in 2024.

Fyksen set out to do it again last year — mapping out dozens of restaurants across New York City.

Fyksen initially planned to visit up to 30 restaurants.

But some last-minute setbacks — including one restaurant closure just the day before and Le Bernardin being closed for lunch — reduced his final total to 28.

“I left my credit card at Le Pavillon, the sixth stop,” he added. “It added more than half an hour that was tough to make up.”

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Decked out in a suit with a body camera and a GPS tracker, he began the marathon at 3 p.m. at Oxomoco in Brooklyn.

He started off with a tuna tostada, and finished with a single oyster at his final stop, Gramercy Tavern — completing the record just minutes before the 24-hour mark.

Also among his stops were Tuome, Le Pavillon, Café Boulud, Eleven Madison Park and Casa Mono.

Per Guinness World Record rules, Fyksen had to finish every dish he was served. 

He tried to order the smallest, fastest food at each stop, but that was not always possible — such as at Semma, a Southern Indian restaurant in Greenwich Village.

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“The dish that was recommended from the server ended up being a potato-filled sosa that was huge. It was bigger than my head and the plate it was served on … It was the largest dish of the record and at 8 minutes 20 seconds, it was the dish that took the longest to eat.”

Despite the pace, Fyksen said the experience wasn’t rushed.

“I savored it. I enjoyed all of it. I wouldn’t do this if I wasn’t able to enjoy it,” he said in an interview on the “Kennedy Saves the World” podcast.

The 24-hour culinary sprint came with a price tag of $1,451.34, including nearly $1,000 spent on food and hundreds of dollars more on transportation, according to Guinness World Records.

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Some of the standout dishes included a scallop dumpling with English peas and foie gras at Tuome; a Jonah crab dish paired with apple, grapefruit and wasabi at Le Pavillon; and the tortellini pomodoro at Torrisi, Fyksen said.

One of the biggest challenges for him was securing reservations at some of the most sought-after hot spots.

Fyksen said he relied on calendar alerts to book reservations the moment they became available and even contacted certain restaurants directly to request accommodations.

Michelin-starred restaurants are judged anonymously and reevaluated each year, adding to the prestige and pressure of earning and maintaining a star.

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But for Fyksen, the passion goes beyond breaking a record, he told Fox News Digital.

“I plan most of my vacations around restaurants,” he said. 

Long before the record, he and his wife, Angela, tried tasting menus and visited Manhattan’s Le Bernardin, Per Se and Eleven Madison Park all in the same day.

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“One of my favorite dining memories was, in the middle of our honeymoon a few years back, I surprised my wife with a one-day trip to Copenhagen just to eat at Noma the morning after a perfect dinner at Restaurant le Meurice by Alain Ducasse in Paris,” Fyksen recalled.

His wife helped document his latest Big Apple feat. One restaurant she wanted to visit most was The Corner Store, a buzzy, celebrity-frequented hot spot — notably not Michelin-starred or part of her husband’s carefully planned route.

So when the challenge was complete, instead of detoxing or napping — the couple headed to SoHo.

“With that restaurant being one of the hardest reservations in the city, I had to have someone hold a spot in line so that we could walk in for dinner at 5 p.m. And we did, and had a great time,” he said.

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While the accomplishment may sound like a dream for some foodies, Fyksen suggested it’s not something he plans to repeat.

“I don’t think I want to do it again,” he said.

But he does want to hold the record for a while, he admitted.

“I know eventually someone will beat it,” Fyksen said. 

“I just hope I made it a little harder for them.”

He added, “I know they’ll have fun. And I hope they’ll take some time to enjoy it and appreciate the great chefs and restaurants that work so hard to achieve the Michelin Stars. I know I did.”

Comedian Bill Maher blasted former Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., as a “f—ing creep” in a “Real Time” takedown on Friday, pointing to previous encounters with the disgraced Democrat that raised red flags.

“I’ve got to say, we had him on a couple of times. Ask my staff, I never liked him…” Maher said.

“I’ve always thought this guy was a f—ing creep. I never liked him and, yet, so many Democrats stood by him, and now that we’re finding out that it was such an open secret.”

Maher highlighted a slew of other “open secrets” involving figures in the past who faced similar allegations, including former film producer Harvey Weinstein, former comedian Bill Cosby, former U.S. Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, and former President Bill Clinton.

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“I hear this so many times … it was an open secret…” he said, adding later, “What is going on here, where it takes so long for the open secret to [come out]?”

He proceeded to call out Republicans for appearing to claim moral superiority on the issue despite misconduct accusations having been made against lawmakers on both sides of the aisle.

In the process, Maher cited E. Jean Carroll, who made accusations against President Donald Trump.

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Maher’s comments come as Swalwell battles a number of sexual misconduct and harassment allegations from five different women who recently came forward to recount their experiences.

Following the allegations, Swalwell suspended his campaign for California governor and resigned from his position in Congress.

While he has denied the allegations of misconduct, he has admitted to making mistakes in the past.

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“I am deeply sorry to my family, staff, and constituents for mistakes in judgment I’ve made in my past,” Swalwell said in a statement announcing his resignation.

“I will fight the serious, false allegations made against me. However, I must take responsibility and ownership for the mistakes I did make.”

The Department of Justice (DOJ) is investigating the multiple allegations against Swalwell, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to Fox News Digital.

District attorneys for both Los Angeles and New York have also launched their own respective investigations.

Legal representation for Swalwell did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment. 

Fox News’ Brittany Miller and Adam Pack contributed to this report.

Pope Leo XIV said Saturday that remarks he made this week in which he said the “world is being ravaged by a handful of tyrants” were not directed at President Donald Trump, a report said. 

The pope, speaking onboard a flight to Angola during his 10-day Africa tour, said reporting about his comments “has not been ‌accurate in all its aspects” and his speech “was ⁠prepared two weeks ago, well before the president ever commented on myself and on the message of peace that I am promoting,” according to Reuters.

The news outlet cited the pope as saying his comments were not aimed at Trump.

“As it happens, it was looked at as if I was trying to debate the president, which is not in ​my interest at all,” the pope reportedly said.

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Fox News Digital has reached out to the White House for comment. 

Trump last Sunday accused Pope Leo XIV of being “terrible” on foreign policy as the pontiff has criticized the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran.

“He talks about ‘fear’ of the Trump Administration, but doesn’t mention the FEAR that the Catholic Church, and all other Christian Organizations, had during COVID when they were arresting priests, ministers, and everybody else, for holding Church Services, even when going outside, and being ten and even twenty feet apart,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post. 

“I don’t want a Pope who thinks it’s OK for Iran to have a Nuclear Weapon,” he continued. 

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During a speech in Cameroon on Thursday, the pope said, “We must make a decisive change of course — a true conversion — that will lead us in the opposite direction, onto a sustainable path rich in human fraternity.” 

“The world is being ravaged by a handful of tyrants, yet it is held together by a multitude of supportive brothers and sisters!” he added.

“Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic or political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth,” the pope also said. 

Fox News Digital’s Landon Mion contributed to this report.