Q: What is it? A: A villa in Lucca, Tuscany where you sleep and eat and get very well taken care of. It’s just one of many Tuscan villas… …but it does its job quite well, (being a villa, that is). It actually looks and feels very much like the quintessential Italian villa; a former [...]
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Moulin de Mougins, Mougins, Provence, France **
Posted in Europe, France, Restaurant on Apr 18th, 2011
Q: What is it? A: A somewhat fading flower. Formerly a top restaurant on the Côte d’Azur. The former moulin (French for mill) in Mougins is now the Moulin de Mougins, hotel and celebrated restaurant. Risotto at lunchtime. Risotto Carnaroli à l’avocat et Poulet Thaï translates to Carnaroli risotto with avocado and Thai chicken. ”Poitrine [...]
La Bastide Saint Antoine – Jacques Chibois, Grasse, Côte d’Azur, France ****
Posted in Europe, France, Restaurant on Apr 10th, 2011
Q: What is it? A: An extremely competent restaurant in the world’s perfume capital. In the 50s, the Kennedy’s made this their summer residence. A little later, in the early 70s, Bill Wyman actually lived here, (when the Stones fled England to escape taxation). Le amuse-gueule. It tasted the way it looked. The Executive Chef, [...]
Q: What is it? A: A hotel that prides itself on not feeling like a regular hotel.It probably has no problem finding its fans, but I’m not one of them. Can you tell that there’s a hotel in this house? I agree, it is quite discreet. No neon sign to light up the Leibnitzstrasse and [...]
Q: What is it? A: A Berlin hotel that works like a Swiss watch, located in a former bank. It still looks quite like a bank. Also, it feels a little like a bank. OK, then… It’s a pretty nice bank. If the police would ask me: ”Have you ever been in that room?”, I [...]