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Hyakuna Garan “Kanro
Hyakuna Garan “Kanro” Hyakuna Garan - Nanjō - JAPAN
The dining space of Restaurant Kanro extends horizontally along the ocean.
From the large panoramic windows you can enjoy the breathtaking ocean view, which locals call the “Marine Field.”
Fresh and colorful local ingredients are happily served for the traditional Japanese-Okinawan courses, with full mindfullness of hospitality.
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An Dining Café & Bar
Ki Niseko - Hokkaido - JAPAN
An Dining has been established since 2014 and is the restaurant where award-winning owner and chef, Shinichi Maeda, from Fukagawa Hokkaido, creates new styles of Japanese cuisine called “Shin-Nihon Shoku” by utilising both traditional and modern techniques, focusing on the pristine Hokkaido local produce.
One of the most important steps Chef Shinichi takes is to visit the actual farm from where the produce originates. He physically feels the environment and talks to the producer to ensure the quality and safety of their produce. His ultimate goal is to ensure that guests enjoy the culinary experience with a seasonal menu while learning how the produce is grown. Operating inside the award-winning Ki Niseko Hotel in Hirafu Hokkaido, surrounded by beautiful scenery of the International Niseko resort area with hot springs, the team of chefs and staff who have experienced working all over the world, guarantee this to be a memorable dining experience for guests.
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Marina Bay Sands Hotel - SINGAPORE
BLOSSOM, the contemporary Chinese restaurant takes centre-stage in the grandiose Marina Bay Sands hotel lobby. A celebration of flavours from Canton and Sichuan, featuring culinary traditions of both ancient and modern China. Showcasing countless regional specialties from juicy Smoked Duck perfumed with 15-year Pu-Erh Tea Leaves and Chrysanthemum to handcrafted Dim Sum and succulent live seafood including Alaskan King Crab and Australian Lobster, BLOSSOM is perfect for hosting a lavish banquet or enjoying a quiet meal.
The inviting dining area, three private rooms and a sleek bar makes it the perfect venue to celebrate and host, no matter what the occasion. BLOSSOM’s architecture, interior design, décor, innovative menu and flawless service is guaranteed to take its diners to greater heights in the culinary realm.
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Wan Hao Chinese Restaurant
Singapore Marriott Tang Plaza Hotel - SINGAPORE
Wan Hao Chinese Restaurant truly redefines the art of Chinese fine dining in Singapore. Wan Hao Chinese Restaurant represents the epitome of luxury with a tantalising array of classic Cantonese delicacies served amidst an Oriental oasis.
Helmed by Executive Chinese Chef Brian Wong, each creation presents flavors that are familiar and comforting, yet refined, nutritious and exquisite with the use of the finest ingredients. The interplay of taste, texture and imagination comes alive in various Dim Sum creations and à la carte dishes.
The restaurant is consistently listed as one of the top restaurants in Singapore and heralded for its impressive wine list of over 300 selections and excellent appeal to wine lovers.
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Tacada Beach Restaurant
Zeavola Resort - Koh Phi Phi, Krabi - THAILAND
Take time to savor the superb Mediterranean cuisine with a soothing sea breeze and your toes in the sand at Tacada beachfront restaurant and bar.
A stunning Phi Phi Island restaurant with refreshing drinks served to your beach chair throughout the day, a great selection of light lunches and a dinner menu including the finest imported lamb, steak, salmon, seabass and local seafood dishes.
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Conrad Koh Samui - THAILAND
An evening at Jahn, with its stunning ocean view, provides you with a memorable dining experience. Chef Nicolas Piatti and his team take you on a culinary journey that begins with ‘bites from the garden’ beneath the restaurant’s frangipani trees before venturing behind the scenes to sample the ‘Chef’s Taste’ in the Jahn kitchen. You then relax with your choice of menu at a candle-lit table.
Choose from three tasting menus - Explore, Inspiration and Adventure - with the option of paired wines. The dishes served with each menu vary from time to time but the concept and the experience remains constant with every dish capturing a myriad of Thai flavours using modern cooking techniques.
This unforgettable dining experience ends with Coco Art - a breath-taking presentation created on canvas that stretches the boundaries of conventional dining.
Meticulously designed using bamboo, and featuring a vibrant, electric blue fossilized coral bar, LAVA restaurant serves the freshest seafood sourced from local fishermen each day, along with the finest cuts of imported beef.
Situated in a refined and elegant beachfront setting at InterContinental Phu Quoc Long Beach Resort, the atmosphere at the resort’s signature restaurant is warm and relaxed, extending to its serene outdoor terrace where the beachside seating arrangement is light, relaxed, and perfect for a romantic sunset aperitif. At LAVA, diners are invited to peruse the array of seafood on offer and discuss with the restaurant’s culinary team and wait staff how they would like their meal to be prepared, using various Vietnamese and international cooking styles and hot lava stones.
The extensive wine collection includes both old world classics and crisp new world wines. For those seeking a more intimate dinner venue, LAVA also offers private dining rooms downstairs.
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La Brasserie Restaurant Le Méridien Jakarta - INDONESIA
La Brasserie Restaurant, located on the lobby level of Le Méridien Jakarta, offers a lavish buffet of delicious international cuisine and Asian selections for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
The hotel’s popular restaurant also features à la carte specialties throughout the day in a relaxed and casual Jakarta city center atmosphere.
Montigo Resorts, Nongsa - INDONESIA
Situated in the Montigo Resort Batam, this intimate kelong-style restaurant is tucked away in a cocoon of natural beauty, a gentle breeze and the soft sway of trees.
Pantai, meaning ‘beach’ in Bahasa, Indonesia, offers an extensive menu featuring fresh, locally-sourced produce and ingredients, rendering the Pantai experience both charming and delightful.
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HI-SO Terrace SO/ St. Petersburg - RUSSIA
From late spring to early fall, the renewed HI-SO panoramic terrace is opened, with its entrancing views over the city. Opt for a Morning Chic breakfast with champagne and a bright menu from the Chef, enjoy a festive lunch or indulge yourself with a romantic dinner with a view. HI-SO is a reputed venue for parties to the sounds of worlds-DJ’s, as well as fashion shows and live music acts.
Every summer a whole range of international artists from different countries are invited to perform during the signature SO/ Parties, and if you are there for leisure, you will definitely enjoy it all together with the unbeatable view, the gastronomic offering and a great variety of signature cocktails.
In addition to numerous events, HI-SO terrace is famous for its gastronomic component. The new Chef, a native Petersburger, Alexey Morozov, is always conscious of gastronomic trends and knows exactly how to surprise a well-experienced gourmet. The cocktail menu is also on top-notch. The concept is based on summer vibes and unrestrained fun with familiar drinks in a vivid interpretation.
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Bachleda Luxury Hotel Kraków MGallery by Sofitel - Kraków - POLAND
Taste the elegance of GAVI restaurant with its richly decorated interiors, taking you on a culinary journey of international cuisine in Fine Dining style.
Gavi Restaurant is governed by sophisticated taste and exquisite food, which can delight all the senses. Its refined interiors, full of golden shades and chic accessories, invite guests to take part in an exceptional culinary tour, indulging in fine dining. Refined and aromatic dishes, prepared with products of the highest quality from local suppliers will conquer the Guests’ hearts and palates.
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da YVONNE Trattoria Pizzeria Toscana
Berlin - GERMANY
The story of the JEWEL of a Restaurant da YVONNE Trattoria Pizzeria Toscana - As a successful banker, Yvonne had always peeked into the “world of gastronomy” and then had her first restaurant built in 2005.
Over the years, with much diligence, hard work and above all passion, coupled with a lot of love, a jewel was created in the gastronomy landscape in Berlin.
Guests from all over the world come to da YVONNE Trattoria Pizzeria Toscana and enjoy, throughout their stay, a piece of Italy. The charm and authenticity make this gem unique.
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Verbena Restaurant & Bar
Burgenstock Hotels & Resort - Obbürgen - SWITZERLAND
At the Verbena Restaurant, the herb gardens, spacious environment and manifold elements depicting herbs and botanic objects highlight the pre-eminent theme of heathy living in all its spaces.
Awarded with 14 GaultMillau points, the culinary expert and head chef, Martin Stain creates healthy, colorful, innovative nutrition. The finest selection of ingredients is used, to ensure that you feel healthy and balanced.
Located in the Waldhotel building, the restaurant has an unimpeded view of the Alps and a roomy sun terrace facing south.
Designed for everyone, accessibility is always prioritized in the restaurant.
Principe Forte Dei Marmi - ITALY
LUX LUCIS is home to the Michelin-starred cuisine of Chef Valentino Cassanelli. Valentino’s dishes are a free expression of Italian cuisine, with an unrestrained creativity, drawing not only from his own life experiences, but also the rich biodiversity surrounding the coastal town of Forte dei Marmi. Inspiration too comes from his close collaboration with Maître Sommelier Sokol Ndreko, with dishes often beginning with the flavour profiling of particular wines. The result are menus that are delicately balanced and elegant, happily journeying from land to sea and delivering the very best in seasonal ingredients.
Situated on the rooftop of Hotel Principe Forte dei Marmi, in a stunning landscape caught between mountains and sea, the 24-seat restaurant is ideally positioned to capture the aureate evening light, offering panoramic views over the town’s stone pines to the Apuan Alps in the east and westwards over the Tyrrhenian Sea. The restaurant was awarded its first Michelin star in 2017.
Europe Restaurant Munkklostret
Vadensta Klosterhotel - Vadstena - SWEDEN
Restaurant Munkklostret offers comfortable fine dining in a historic environment. During the Middle Ages, Vadstena was the location of a catholic monastery for munks and nuns of the Birgittine order. The Restaurant is largely located in the same medieval buildings that were once the monastery, now adapted to meet the requirements of modern living.
The menu is seasonal with succulent steaks, lamb, game and fish dishes, which are flavoured with herbs from the monastery garden, and served in the monks’ old dorms.
Consensual - Concept Food
Lisbon - PORTUGAL
The Consensual Restaurant is located in the historic district in the centre of Lisbon. Owner and Chef, Paula Araújo, has transformed the space into a very private ambience - A Closed Door Concept!
Guests can enjoy contemporary cuisine and fusion – where improbable combinations are achieved, and different textures are experienced.
The concept is based on a “Tasting Menu” which is carefully created by the chef.
Nea Diagonios
Thessaloniki - GREECE
The food at Nea Diagonios has character with strong flavors that leave a memory. Something inside you will be woken up, giving you something you want to return to.
Your interest will be piqued at the intimate feeling created from the marriage of flavours. Although the classic flavours are always good, on the other hand your thirst for change will be awakened – for the “modern” time; for something different.
This is, in fact, the essence. Balance and evolution. Which is why Nea Diagonios has been awarded as the restaurant of the year.
Limassol - CYPRUS
Artima Bistro, member of Carob Mill Restaurants, four times awarded for its Mediterranean cuisine, is a most suitable choice for an elegant dining experience and ideal for a business lunch or dinner.
The carefully restored and tastefully designed restaurant radiates unique character in a contemporary and elegant environment. The rich menu and professional staff are sure to leave guests with a favourable and flavourful impression.
Located at the Lanitis Carobmill Complex next to the Medieval Castle in Limassol, Artima offers Mediterranean dishes inspired by the Italian cuisine. The creative menu is enhanced with tempting desserts and a wide selection of local and international wines. Visitors can enjoy their food or drinks sitting by the yard of the Medieval Castle.
