Category: food & drinks
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…
ze kitchen galerie, Paris
ze kitchen galerie was the restaurant which kicked off our little unintended 8-star, 4-day gastronomic tour in Paris. IT’s friends booked this restaurant for us because it was the first night when all of us arrived in Paris and the restaurant is within walking distance of where we were staying in the Latin Quarter. We did…
Alain Passard’s L’Arpège, Paris
Our 1-week stay in Paris was not meant to be a gastronomic tour. But IT asked her Parisian friends, D and C, who work in the food industry, to make reservations for us at several restaurants. In four days, we ate in four restaurants with a combined total of eight Michelin stars. We did not know in…