Earn Loyalty Points at Hotels with Style Points
Chefs, bartenders, and sommeliers at great independent hotels share their secrets
For over a century, the grandeur of the Mission Inn has drawn everyone from U.S. Presidents to Hollywood royalty to experience the timeless beauty of this National Historic Landmark. The stunning Spanish Mission-style architecture of this veritable castle features flying buttresses, magnificent archways, secluded garden oases and soaring towers. The Mission Inn features expansive guestrooms all […]
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The Restoration invites you to join them for a day of romantic foods, wines and connection at The Watch Rooftop Kitchen & Spirits. “Feb 9th through the 16th, we will be offering a deluxe Valentine’s package to guests. Included in this special offer are gourmet chocolates by Louis Sherry, one of the oldest French chocolate ateliers, a bottle […]
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Hotel AbRi – both vibrant and warm – is at the center of all the fun of San Francisco. You can disappear into the tall orange leather chairs around the fireplace, or knock out those emails at the business center – it’s just off to the side of the lobby, but close enough that you […]
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Chef Sousa reflects on gardening with his Portuguese grandfather, the difference between hotel restaurants and independents, and his admiration for simple-yet-perfect dishes like roast chicken with seasonal produce.
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Even the most basic continental breakfast — English muffins with butter and jam and black tea — is a small good thing. But on the spectrum of complimentary hotel breakfasts, not all are created equal.
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Jeremy Hebert is a Vermonter through and through — born in Burlington, raised in Berlin, schooled at the University of Vermont (UVM) where he took a few political science classes with Vermont legend Mike Gordon of the Northeasterner’s birthright band Phish.
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Save for the occasional bag of peanut M&Ms, I avoid eating at airports and on airplanes. And it’s not only because the food generally makes me feel like the before picture in an ad for heartburn and the price gouging is as absurd as the size of a large popcorn and Coke at the cinema. No. […]
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Save for the occasional bag of peanut M&Ms, I avoid eating at airports and on airplanes. And it’s not only because the food generally makes me feel like the before picture in an ad for heartburn and the price gouging is as absurd as the size of a large popcorn and Coke at the cinema. No. […]
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Washington, second to California in total number of craft beer breweries, is abuzz with beer tourism, especially in Seattle where brewery tours are nearly as popular as strolls through Pike Place Market and trips to the Space Needle. Well, not exactly, but beyond a strong regional interest in local suds there is an increasing international presence on the in-fashion tours. Though after the first few stops, after the IBU, ABV, ester production and gravity level talk has lost its edge, everyone speaks the same language.
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Just because the yellow school buses are making their rounds, it doesn’t mean summer is over. So let’s put down the pumpkin-spice-everything and savor these last days, deal? Toll House Hotel in Los Gatos, CA doesn’t skimp on summer. (In fact, they don’t skimp on much of anything.) The on-site restaurant, The Verge, is a fast favorite among […]
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