Category: food & drinks
Estanplaza Funchal Hotel – Faria Lima, São Paulo
I stayed at two hotels while in São Paulo. The first was the Estanplaza Funchal Hotel located in the business district, Faria Lima. Originally, we were booked to stay at the famous watermelon, i.e., Hotel Unique. But it turned out to be far from our meeting venue (remember the traffic congestion, remember here). So we
Interlaken – part 2
Continuing with our long weekend in Interlaken … Interlaken’s hotels are expensive and they are often fully booked. Our hotel is BeauSite located in the next town – Unterseen. It is a family-owned hotel which has a nice little seating area in front and ample parking spaces. It was impossible to find parking in Interlaken
Interlaken – part 1
We spent a long weekend in Interlaken at the end of August. Without having consulted any official statistics, Interlaken is I think the most visited place in Switzerland. Lucern is a close second. It is situated between two mountain lakes. The city is built for tourism. Its name was originally Aarmühle but it was changed in 1891.
Thierry Marx’s Sur Mesure, Paris
Continuing with our impromptu gastronomic tour of Paris … Beside Passage 53 (posted here), another 2-star restaurant we went to was Thierry Marx‘s Sur Mesure in the Mandarin Oriental on Rue Saint-Honoré. The interior of the restaurant is rather unusual. The walls and the ceiling are all covered by white leather and occasionally, the leather