Are you in search of great (Michelin) gourmet restaurants to go in Europe? Here you find fine dining places worth the expenditure. For Switzerland, go to the separate category!

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Restaurant Stadtbad, Olten, Switzerland, with tapas pop-up

Chef Ranchal Expósito in action until summer 2020: Since this May the culinary scene in my home town of Olten in the Swiss Mittelland between Zurich, Basel and Bern has grown by a refined tapas pop-up restaurant called Expósito’s House.…
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(Super) short trip to Milan, Italy, & staying at Park Hyatt

The most perfectly located 5 star hotel in Italy’s second largest city: After my recent visit to Turin (see here my posts), I got the chance to get to know another city in north Italy, Milan, one of the fashion capitals of the world. I was…
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My Google Map of how to travel in style between Porto & Lisbon in 7 days

What to do and where to stay & dine in Portugal’s core as demanding traveler: After having been to Portugal’s capital Lisbon three times (see my post) and having done a round trip in the country’s south quite a few years ago, my husband…
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Hotel Royal Savoy Lausanne, a short trip to western Switzerland

Luxury hotel in Lausanne-Ouchy on Lake Geneva: As my husband attended an executive education event in Lausanne, I had the chance to spend some time in Lausanne too, the second largest city in the French-speaking part of Switzerland after…
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Short trip to Alsace, France, incl. dinner by a 2-star Michelin chef

A great stay at Hotel Le Chambard in picturesque Kaysersberg: A luxury getaway to France is always a good idea, or at least I think so! After many years not visiting the Alsace region in northeastern France, bordering Germany and Switzerland,…
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Where to eat as a fine food lover in Turin, North Italy

Culinary delights - fine dining & ice cream - in Italy's fourth largest city: Turin, the destination of a short trip to the nearby northern Italy, undertaken with my husband a short time ago, surprised me extremely positively. Not only…
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Restaurant Storchen, Aarau-Schoenenwerd, Switzerland with new chef

La cuisine by Daniel Sladek – His first degustation menu: Under new management, but the chef is the same! When eating out in my home region of Olten/Aarau in the Swiss Mittelland between Zurich, Basel and Bern, Restaurant Hotel Storchen…
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Review of Restaurant EquiTable in Zurich, Switzerland

UPDATE: new chef as from March 2022 (Julian Marti, Fabian Fuchs takes over at Neue Taverne Zurich) Fine dining that surprises & delights at every turn: Yet another visit to one of Zurich’s elite chefs was undertaken by my family…
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Review of Restaurant Gustav in Zurich, Switzerland

UPDATE: out of business in 2019, chef (Antonio Colaianni) from September 2020 to April 2023 at Ristorante Ornellaia Gourmet paradise directly by the central train station:  Chef Antonio Colaianni had been on my radar for some time now.…