The most recently opened of Alain Ducasse's three restaurants, located in one of Paris' grandest hotels, has only 50 seats and 55 restaurant staff. The mouth-watering highlight of the menu, the volaille de bresse, consists of boneless, free-range chicken specially raised in Burgundy. Before booking your flight to Paris, be warned: The restaurant is closed for a month each summer and in the days leading up to Christmas. Having completed the preface, Alain Ducasse is now turning the ...

Once again Del Fresco Double Eagle Steak House scores # 1 with the MrFiveStar team for the third straight year. Our associate’s unanimously agree Del Fresco by a nose edges ahead of the pack. What a difficult decision? After all look where we had to go several times to come up with this proclamation. We visited Ruth’s Chris, Smith & Wollensky, Bern’s Steak House, Tampa, Morton’s Steak House, Peter Luger’s NY, Elway’s Denver, Steak House 10 Denver, Sh ...

The Greenbrier is an award-winning resort located in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. A National Historic landmark, The Greenbrier represents 227 years of history with its classic architecture, exquisite interior design, carefully sculpted landscape, impeccable service and outstanding amenities. This renowned property offers 802 rooms, including 33 suites and 96 guest and estate houses. The Greenbrier has 10 lobbies, 40+ meeting rooms and a complete conference center facility. Guest ...

British Virgin Islands, Private Islands From the air Necker Island is a raw emerald anchored in a pool of turquoise. The verdant peak slopes gently downward to the azure and sapphire hues of the Caribbean Sea. Tapering sandbars and shallow coves punctuate the shoreline, and flat planes of sugar-white sand form an almost unbroken garland of pristine beaches. Like a vision of Eden, Necker Island juts up from the ocean a mile north of Virgin Gorda in the celebrated British Virgin Islands. Total ...

During the course of one of my long, exhaustively intricate meals at Per Se, Thomas Keller’s new restaurant in the Time Warner Center, one of my guests experienced an epiphany peculiar to New Yorkers of a certain overly sophisticated kind. Already we’d sampled coddled eggs tipped with black-truffle purée, and the chef’s famous “oysters and pearls” (Island Creek oysters, pearly tapioca, Osetra caviar). We’d listened to informative disquisitions on the ...

The name 'Sandy Lane' conjures up images of serene style in a gloriously exotic setting. From the moment its first guests were welcomed in 1961, Sandy Lane has been considered the premier address in the Caribbean - preferred by royalty, movie stars and many of the business world's most discerning personalities. Today Sandy Lane maintains its eminence in the 21st century as the premier luxury resort in the world with accolades from guests and awards travel trade and travel magazines. Sa ...

The name 'Sandy Lane' conjures up images of serene style in a gloriously exotic setting. From the moment its first guests were welcomed in 1961, Sandy Lane has been considered the premier address in the Caribbean - preferred by royalty, movie stars and many of the business world's most discerning personalities. Today Sandy Lane maintains its eminence in the 21st century as the premier luxury resort in the world with accolades from guests and awards travel trade and travel magazines. Sa ...

Now here is a real “world class” European Resort, right here in the good old USA. Johannes Fessler the proprietor came to the United States from Bavaria to attend college at the University of Denver. Upon graduation and following in the family tradition he purchased a small hotel here in 1979. The rest as they say is history. Over the years the Sonnenalp has expanded, remolded and grown into one of the finest mountain resorts in North America. From the m ...

I was supposed to have become an actor said Patrick O'Connell owner of the Inn at Little Washington but soon found the living theater of the restaurant world more compelling than the stage. Running a restaurant allows me to be the producer, director, set designer, and lead player in a wonderfully fractured nightly performance in which the world of complete illusion in the dining room is brilliantly juxtaposed with the blood-and-guts reality of the kitchen. Sometimes it seems like a Broadway ...

I was supposed to have become an actor said Patrick O'Connell owner of the Inn at Little Washington but soon found the living theater of the restaurant world more compelling than the stage. Running a restaurant allows me to be the producer, director, set designer, and lead player in a wonderfully fractured nightly performance in which the world of complete illusion in the dining room is brilliantly juxtaposed with the blood-and-guts reality of the kitchen. Sometimes it seems like a Broadway ...