Q: What is it? A: A beautiful place in a beautiful setting with a less than beautiful kitchen. In theory, it’s nothing but amazing. Is it for real? Is it a shooting location? Is this something that the folks at Disney dreamed up? The nearby Sunnmøre Alps form an incredible backdrop with little speckles of [...]
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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 [...]
Q: What is it? A: A good place to stay, (and an even better place to eat), on Iceland’s southern coast. The exterior doesn’t exactly reveal what’s on the inside… Quite a comfy bed. But for being a room in the De Luxe category, I found it being rather ordinary. The tub has jets. But [...]
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 [...]