In The News: Best Hotel Restaurants In The World

We've all been there, sitting in the hotel contemplating breakfast or dinner. The hotel's restaurant shouldn't always be a last resort. In some cases it deserves to be your first choice and it is really convenient. Hotel restaurants seem to get a bad rap but oftentimes, missing the experience would be a horrible mistake and would mean skipping out on an experience like Gordon Ramsey's restaurant at InterContinental Bordeaux. 

Sometimes traveling means going downstairs. Hotels can often do so much more than restaurants in other circumstances: They have the resources to recruit the best chefs and then give them ample room to be creative for a dazzling display. These are several hotel restaurants that might make you want to book a ticket and a table all at the same time. 

Aqua at The Ritz-Carlton, Wolfsburg

The restaurant, a Zen space, and the hotel's setting are striking in Wolfsburg, Germany, and it can only be best describe as an industrial-luxe (location, location, location). Chef de Cuisine Sven Elverfeld is behind the restaurant, which yes, has three Michelin stars, and he delivers plates that look almost too perfect to eat.


Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park, London
For anyone that has the notion that British cuisine doesn't have much to offer on the world stage, point them to Dinner by Heston Blumenthal. 

Blumenthal, of course, is best known for The Fat Duck, a three-star Michelin restaurant located in Berkshire, England. The chef traces British history with his menu, dating items to their origin, like "Savoury Porridge (c.1660)." The setting is nothing antiquated, though; it's sleek but inviting. 

Epicure at Le Bristol Hotel
If you're going to be visiting Paris you might as well go all out or go home. And we've pinpointed Epicure, with its three Michelin stars and chef Eric Fréchon at the helm, as the place that can't be beat. Fréchon is able to give a slight spin on the most ordinary of dishes: stuffed macaroni with artichokes, black truffle, duck foie gras and Parmesan cheese. Just remember the food isn't all you came for.

Siete Fuegos at the Vines Resort & Spa
If you've seen the Netflix-original series "Chef's Table" then its hard to forget the nature-loving and free-loving chef behind this place: Argentine Francis Mallmann. Mendoza is one of Mallmann's places in the world and Siete Fuegos at the Vines Resort & Spa location is his latest venture. It involves lots of rustic, delicious food (and lots of meat, of course) cooked slowly over crackling, open fires right nearby. This is the Maillard technique in its full glory.

Lung King Heen at Four Seasons Hong Kong
Hong Kong is as hotel-centric as it gets when it comes to fine dining.  Lung King Heen was the first Cantonese restaurant in the world to be awarded three Michelin stars in 2009. But if Cantonese isn't what you're feeling, French restaurant and fellow Michelin-starred restaurant Caprice is located in the same building. Bon Appetit. 

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