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23
Feb
by Sophie Gayot
Fresh off the plane from Los Angeles, I headed to Le 114 Faubourg in Paris with an American friend of mine to show her how a chef can bring brasserie cuisine to a luxurious level. The restaurant is located in the Hôtel Le Bristol and is overseen by chef Eric Frechon, so I was pretty sure that the demonstration would be good. My assumption was confirmed.
At Le 114, produce is king. The cuisine, prepared by chef de cuisine Eric Desbordes, is simple, one you can have (almost) every day. Watch my exclusive video interview above with chef Frechon to learn more and see the luxury brasserie.
Continue reading “Paris, Produce & Purple” »
07
Feb
Plan a romantic dinner for two this Valentine's Day
by Jeff Hoyt
Lovers, unite! With Valentine’s Day falling on a Monday this year, you have many choices of dates to celebrate with your significant other. Enjoy a romantic meal and gift-giving this Friday, Saturday, Sunday or the Monday itself. Or, wait until the following Friday and take your partner away for a three-day weekend if you have President’s Day off.
GAYOT.com offers both the best Valentine’s Day restaurants and the most romantic restaurants. We’ve even got the top 10 romantic restaurants and the top 10 places to kiss in the country, as well as the sexiest restaurants in certain cities. If you want to do it yourself, we feature a selection of romantic cookbook reviews, and your meal can be accompanied by one of our top 10 Valentine’s Day wines or top 10 romantic wines. Or, you can try one of our fine chocolates or aphrodisiacs!
Don’t forget our romantic spas, romantic hotels, and sexy hotels near you. We’ve even got the top 10 Valentine’s Day gifts, but we also recommend a couples massage. That way you’re getting as well as giving!
May you enjoy a LOVE-ly holiday.
01
Dec
Traditional yurts in Kyrgyzstan make for a unique travel experience
by Jeff Hoyt
Want to get away? I mean, really, really away? How about Easter Island, considered the most remote spot on the planet? For peace and quiet, you can head out for the Outback of Australia, up to the highest mountains in Norway or down to the deepest recesses of the South Pacific. You can even visit an uncrowded part of the USA in Sarah Palin’s Alaska. “I just came back from my vacation in a yurt in Kyrgyzstan!” is sure to stop conversations at your next holiday party.
Our list of the Top 10 Remote Hotels Worldwide features far-flung destinations that promise a vacation filled with solitude. It’s part of the latest edition of our TASTES newsletter, which was published today. Make sure you stay in the loop by subscribing to our free newsletters, which include the Hotel Issue and the Annual Restaurant Issue, coming out in January. Keep coming back to GAYOT.com for the latest restaurant news, culinary events and hotel and restaurant reviews.
17
Nov
The Hotel Parq Central in Albuquerque, New Mexico, one of our Top 10 New Hotels in the U.S.
by Nick Winfrey
With Thanksgiving only a week away and Christmas just around the corner, our 2010 Hotel Issue has arrived just in time to help you with your holiday travel plans!
Start off by checking out the latest hot spots around the country with our list of the Top 10 New Hotels in the U.S. Looking for something a bit more modest? Take a gander at our picks for the Top 10 Value Hotels in America and around the world to find great deals at excellent properties.
Continue reading “The Hotel Issue is Here!” »
SLS Hotel at Beverly Hills Offers Itself its Own Present for its Second Anniversary
on November 04th, 2010
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04
Nov
by Sophie Gayot
Continue reading “SLS Hotel at Beverly Hills Offers Itself its Own Present for its Second Anniversary” »
29
Oct
The lounge at Hotel Andaluz in Albuquerque, NM © Ramona Willis d
by Patricia Mack
Yesterday I wrote about haunted restaurants, but hotels also have spirits lurking. Unrequited love is the basis for a ghost tale at the St. Francis Inn, built as a private home in 1791 in St. Augustine, FL. The story concerns a pair of lovers, long dead, who are often seen or heard by staff and guests. Supposedly a young man who lived with his uncle, Major William Hardee, who owned the house during the middle of the 19th century, fell in love with Lily, one of the young black servant girls. When their affair was discovered, Lily was dismissed and the nephew ordered to never see her again. Deeply depressed, the young man took his own life in the attic, now Lily’s Room.
Continue reading “Haunted Hotels” »
08
Jul
Left to right: Chad Belisario, Corporate Public Relations Manager; Alyssa Bushey, Director of Communications, Mandarin Oriental Las Vegas. Back row, obstructed: Paul Jones, General Manager, Mandarin Oriental Singapore; Kathleen Shea, Vice President of Sales & Marketing, The Americas. Back row, obstructed: Rudy Tauscher, Area Vice President & General Manager, Mandarin Oriental New York; Cliff Atkinson, General Manager, Mandarin Oriental San Francisco. Alexandra Wensley, Director of Communications, Mandarin Oriental Miami; Richard Baker, Executive Vice President, Southern Region, The Americas; Susanne Hatje, General Manager, Mandarin Oriental Boston; Sophie Gayot; Rajesh Jhingon, General Manager, Mandarin Oriental Las Vegas; Christian Hassing, General Manager, Mandarin Oriental Tokyo; Amanda Hyndman, General Manager, Mandarin Oriental Washington, D.C.; Tammy Peters, Director of Communications, Mandarin Oriental New York. Back row, partially obstructed: Kurt Wachtveitl, Special Ambassador, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group. Danielle DeVoe, Vice President of Communications, The Americas.
by Sophie Gayot
The story starts in 1974 with two very prestigious hotels: The Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong and The Oriental in Bangkok. The Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group has since grown to 42 hotels in 27 countries with 10,000 rooms. Synonymous with extreme luxury and legendary service, the Mandarin Oriental properties are located in prestigious locations, each of them imbued with a distinct personality. Representatives from as far as Singapore and Prague made a recent trip to Los Angeles to present us their hotels over lunch at the new private club Soho House on Sunset Boulevard.
Before enjoying dessert, I was already fantasizing about visiting the Mandarin Oriental Barcelona on the Paseo de Gracia (the city’s most prestigious address), featuring interiors by renowned Spanish designer Patricia Urquiola; or the Mandarin Oriental Jnan Rahma in Marrakech, due to open at the end of this year. The 161 rooms all in riad-style are set in 53 acres, of which a whopping 38,000 square feet are devoted to the spa. Remember the “Abu Dhabi” hotel in Sex & the City 2? It was actually shot at the Mandarin Oriental Marrakech; a great starring role for a hotel not open yet.
Continue reading “News from the Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group” »
04
Feb
The Gramercy Park Hotel, one of our Top 10 Sexy Hotels in New York
Our February Edition of the Foodpaper Newsletter is here!
22
Dec
Glacia at Crystals
by Leslie Cotterman
While other touted Strip properties couldn’t make it to the finish line (think Fontainebleau Las Vegas, Echelon), CityCenter rolled out its red carpet as promised in late 2009 (The Harmon and Veer Towers excepted).
Well-rehearsed staff populates every corner — don’t even try to maneuver this sprawling urban campus without letting them direct you to the closest tram station or one of the many restaurants.
That tram, by the way, is quite efficient, and shuttles passengers like clockwork between sister MGM MIRAGE properties Bellagio and Monte Carlo Resort & Casino, with a stop at CityCenter’s Crystals in between. So if the restaurant Michael Mina Bellagio is booked, you can zip right over to the chef’s American Fish at ARIA Resort & Casino.
Continue reading “The Strip Grows and Glows Even More with CityCenter” »
03
Aug
The Nautilus shell, 450 million years old is still a mystery and an inspiration for mathematicians
By Andre Gayot
Usually, hotel meeting rooms bear grandiose names like “The Imperial Room” or “The Majestic Room.” But in The Indigo, a San Diego boutique hotel, their modest function space is dubbed “The Fibonacci Room.” Many visitors would immediately assume the Italian name in such a location refers to some variety of pizza.
Shame on us! We should be taught in first grade to pay respect to the genius Fibonacci (1175-1250), whose real name was Leonardo Pisano, who changed our lives when he changed the way we represent numbers way back in the XII, I mean 12th century. Fibonacci helped the world to adopt Arabic numerals instead of the Roman numbers that were then in use. He also popularized the use of the figure zero despite the resistance of the traditionalists, who, as usual, did not understand the concept and were up in arms against it. Hey! Zeros and ones: does that ring a bell for you, computer nerds?
Continue reading “Of the Good Use of Math in the Hospitality Industry” »
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