Sevilla – This beautiful palace-style hotel is situated in the middle of Seville, only 10 minutes walk from the cathedral and main restaurant area. The rooms are modern and quite spacious. If you can ask for a room in the upper floors as they might be a bit brighter.
The breakfast was excellent with countless side dishes one can order complimentary.The roof top is ideal to take a dip in the small pool or drink the rest of the wine you did not finish the night before…
Andalucia – Close to Vejer de la Frontera (between Malaga and Cadiz) lays this formerly farmhouse – now transformed into a small luxury retreat.
The house has only 8 suites and all are individually decorated. We had a wonderful fire place and an old-fashioned bathtub in our room.
The people from the Casa la Siesta are really nice and helpful. We enjoyed a delicious breakfast every morning at the big wooden table and explored the area during the day or relaxed on the sunny terrace. One evening we also had dinner there and it was fantastic. But beware of “Sombra”, the black queen of the house on four paws…she can be moody 😉
In summer they also do Paellas and BBQ on the terrace or pool area and the house is ideal for weddings.
Marbella – This year we had to cancel our ski vacation – gourmet trip to Zermatt due to a bad knee… Instead we headed some hundred kilometers south to Andalusia. I spent a summer in Malaga to learn Spanish more than 17 years ago. The area is beautiful and it changed a lot, most to the better.
Just after the landing we picked up our rental car and drove along the beautiful coast in lovely sunshine at 20 degrees (in March)!
We booked at Dani Garcia for lunch. It was a fantastic culinary start of our vacation.
We entered the restaurant through a big massive wooden door and found ourselves in the world of Alice in Wonderland. The decoration is really special and you get treated really well.
My favourite dish was the small tomato that looked like made from metal “Tomate Nitro” with oysters and ceviche….heavenly good.
Bring along some time and a full wallet and you will not regret it.
Let me introduce Nam, one of my best friends, she was so kind to write a post about the Street Food Festival on my blog. I’m sure you will enjoy:
Zurich – Last weekend the winter edition of the Street Food Festival Zurich took place at the Giessereihalle. An indoor so called industrial market space at Puls 5. It felt like half Zurich and some more were there on their feet and ready to get fed. Dozens of vendors housing in creative food trucks or market booths were prepared to please the crowd with culinary delicacies from all over the world.
At 8 pm we got our table, a nice and cosy one right in the middle of the restaurant. There is a big meat buffet as you would see at a butcher when you go meat shopping. The restaurant is not very big but I really like the black and white interior design. AuGust opened in November 2014 and is attached to the Widder hotel – a unique and boutique 5*hotel in the heart of Zurich. The building complex of 9 town houses was converted in the 1970’s into a hotel by famous Swiss architect Tilla Theus.
Now to the food: My first course, the salmon tatar was the best I ever had! Great fish quality and spicy mixed with wasabi and chillies and some secret ingredients…
For the main we took the meat platter. It was very good but too much food for two people. The service person asked us if we wanted to have a doggy bad what we gratefully accepted.
Definitely worth visiting!
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Zurich – We booked about 6 weeks in advance as the Razzia (a former cinema of the 20ies and a club of the 2000’s) is very popular since its re-opening as a restaurant in May 2014.
The interior is breathtakingly beautiful. You can imagine people visiting the cinema in the old times. Even the toilets are decorated in the same style and you can see the love for every little detail.
The food was really good and I was happy I shared the “Vermicelle” (Spaghetti made of chestnut purée, served with whipped cream, meringue and caramelized nuts) with my friend, as I think this was almost the best dish this evening.
The red wine “Veran” from Mallorca rounded the evening and was worth the price.
Stockholm -This restaurant is located in Stockholm’s old town. You meet older and younger people as well as the hipster with the beard…
As it was our first evening in Stockholm, we tried all the different kinds of pickled herring and some dried game meat which was quite good.
My main course was a reindeer entrecôte and potato gratin. The meat was tender and tasty (similar to venison in Switzerland), the gratin was exceptionally good. The others chose fish, meat balls and pigs knuckle which was also tasty.
A bar is attached to the restaurant as well; for an apéro or digestifs.
Stockholm – This food hall is definitively worth a visit when in Sweden!!
We had to queue for about 20 minutes – and it was already 1.30pm! But it was worth every minute. You sit on a small table, squashed with a lot of Swedes and tourists while you see all the great dishes coming out of the kitchen. The menu list is quite long and I really had trouble to make a decision what to order.
In the end we took some oysters as a starter and my husband had the fish platter, I went for the cod and shrimps in butter (real hip gold butter…)! It was really heavenly and when I think about it now, my mouth begins to water again…..
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