Romée de Goriainoff, Olivier Bon, and Pierre-Charles Cros, the owners, took inspiration from New York’s bar scene and created l’Experimental Cocktail Club, a speakeasy on rue Saint Sauveur in the Second Arrondissement. Located just north of Les Halles, you are going to feel like if you are walking through the medieval Paris.

The Experimental Cocktail Club is a discreet venue but it has no secret entrance, just a black façade. Once you enter, you’ll find the perfect combination of New Yorkspeakeasy – with a piano in the corner – and Parisian charm. Step inside, through the heavy velvet curtain, and you’ll be in a  chic-neo-baroque feeling.

This is one of Time Out’s 100 best bars in Paris. L’Experimental Cocktail Club has established a place for itself in the world of fancy drinks. Cocktail fans can choose from a menu of 14 libations made by mixologist Nicolas de Soto. After Experimental Cocktail Club’s mixes, you’ll never go back to the other drinks! The mixologies bars reinvent cocktails with fresh fruit juices and subtle spices.

You can find Tommy’s Margarita Especial made of 100% agave tequila Arette mix with lime juice and organic agave honey, infused with Bourbon vanilla and cloves. Or the Bee’s Kiss, Jamaican rum Appleton VX, cream, organic floral honey and crushed Indonesian pepper. The cocktails are innovative and delicious. Try the Experience Number 1, Hendrick’s gin, lemongrass, lemon juice and fresh basil. So delicious!

L’Experimental Cocktail Club is definitely worth a visit, especially for those who like New York City life, and we do! If you are thinking of going to Paris, we hope you enjoy your visit!

37 rue Saint Saveur

75002Paris

01 45 08 88 89

M: Sentier, Etienne Marcel

M-Th 7PM-2AM; Friday/Saturday 7PM-5AM 

There’s nothing unusual prima facie. But if you go deep in Altamarea’s story, you can get very surprised. What is it that makes this group different? Why is it that you can resume everything with just a word? Success!

Nationwide, most restaurants close within the first year but Mr. Ahmass Fakahany is a financier by training; he did career at Merril Lynch and he built his restaurant group like ‘the money man’ he once was. He has hired back-office members from places like Goldman Sachs and Bain Capital to help him watch expenses. But that’s not all, he also hired his former driver at Merrill Lynch to shuttle around almost everything: from clients to wine crates.

 Michael White, the chef, spent his childhood in Wisconsin and graduated from the Kendal Culinary Institute. Nowadays, he has won several Michelin Stars and has been named Esquire’s Best Chef, just to name a few awards. Not to mention that his restaurant, Marea, is one of the best restaurants in New York City (said by Zagat, The New York Times, James Beard Foundation…).

This team seems to be invincible!

Marea, from the sea to the table

Located in Central Park South, Marea can be described like “the food is so heavenly, I don’t mind going to hell”, as we just read on a blog. Three stars from The New York Times, two Michelin Stars in 2012 and many other acknowledgments from several organizations endorse this sentence.

Marea, meaning ‘tide’ in Italian, redefines the high-end Italian food. The cuisine is committed to the freshest and most seasonal fish and shellfish from theMediterranean and waters worldwide. Selections are crudo, a wide variety of oysters and clams and antipasti.

Mr. White is famous for his house made pasta, plenty of frutti di mare. The menu also includes composed fish dishes, whole fish preparations and a short selection of meat.

And after watching the pictures, the mouth is watering, doesn’t it?

For those who are planning a visit to the city that never sleeps, here’s our recommendation in New York City! Good food, nice venue and incredible business management.

Café Charlot, in Paris, is known to be one of peoples’ favorite places to have a delicious brunch with friends while you’re enjoying the incredible atmosphere. One of the best choices is to order a classic brunch menu. What can you find in this magic brunch? Fresh squeezed orange juice, hot chocolate, pain perdu, toasts, cherry tomatoes and shallots, fresh fruit salad, scrambled organic eggs with smoked salmon and soft chive cream cheese… Delicious!

In Café Charlot you can eat what most people define as ‘the perfect hamburger’. It is served with the right kind of bread (we all know French bread is extremely delicious!), a soft sesame seed bun, a perfectly cooked burger with everything it should have inside, and crispy French fries.

 If you prefer organic food you can also order chicken burger, also served with fries. Among the other gourmet sandwiches are the BLT, the hot sandwich Charlot (cheese, beef and grilled onions served on a french roll) and of course, the typical French croque. Café Charlot’s specials: le croque jeune homme and le croque jeune fille.

Le Marais

Café Charlot’s neighbourhood is Le Marais. The beautiful buildings indicate the moneyed status of the old residents. After the revolution, much of the area was abandoned by the rich, and poor bohemian types moved in. Almost the opposite of what happened in Soho inNewYorkCity.

Le Marais is now one of Paris’ significant localities for artists. Le Marais has become a fashionable district, where you can find many trendy and cozy restaurants, vogue houses, and art galleries.

 You can’t miss it!! Visit Le Marais on your next visit to Paris and chill out with a brunch at Charlot’s Café!!

Barcelona will host the 6th edition of one of the national sports in Spain: Tapeo (eating tapas). With a total of 66 establishments (25 more than last year) the city is ready to serve over 57,000 tapas.

During these days each of the venues display over their bars their best creation, the most distinctive, accompanied with one bottle of Estrella Damm beer, for just € 2.40.

Discover Barcelona, its most unique corners and get ready to enjoy a variety of dishes with miniature proposals: from the most traditional to the most daring.

Burger lovers have plenty of options: such as mini burger with crispy bacon and fresh basil; mini burger with Parmesan and arugula, mini spicy beef, goat cheese and caramelized onions, or Iberian secret mini burger with pistachios and onion. There is also other interesting tapas like the black ink miniPizza with tomato, mozzarella, brandade of cod, anchovies and capers, the red tuna tataki or caramelized foie with jam. There is also space for thai food lovers with the wonton with Iberian pork filling and sour sauce, or the angomakibcnroll prepared as a cucumber roll with tuna and anchovy cream sprinkled with yuzu roe.

If you want to make your  choice of bars and restaurants involved and know more about their proposal. Download here the map.

The effort made by the establishments will pay off in the form of prize. The “Restoration Guild Tapa” rewards the most original and creative elaboration. The “Estrella Damm Tapa” will recognize the dish that best combines with beer or that includes it as an ingredient, and the “Popular Tapa” will be the one to receive more votes by consumers.

Also, you can be fully informed through Loodic and Gastronosfera  mobile applications for smartphones (both for iPhone and Android)

And as a complementary activity, a photo competition has been organized by Gastronosfera on Instagram with the hashtag # tapaBCN. You still have time! Send yours!

Enjoy and savor, be encouraged to vote your favorite tapa!

DHC gives you the opportunity to spend Valentine’s Day together with your partner in the best possible environment: chic, modern and elegant. We always offer the most central location, with a trade mark service.

The DHC chain suggests “Stay & Love” packages for its hotels: Villa Real and Urban Hotel (Madrid), Gran Derby Hotel, Granados 83 Hotel, Claris Hotel and Bagués Hotel (Barcelona), Caesar Hotel (London) and Banke Hotel (Paris). All of them offer an exquisite combination of luxury and romance, regaling lovers with chocolate dipped strawberries, a bottle of French champagne or a romantic bath with rose petals and bath salts.

Furthermore, hotels in Barcelona and Madrid have a unique menu for Valentine’s Day, designed for special palates, combining quality, creativity and variety: For starters, French oysters or lobster carpaccio with seaweed powder, followed by monkfish medallion with clams or beef tenderloin with demi- glase of PX and calçots (a Catalan variety of onion) in tempura. Finally a lemon sorbet with a hint of Xoriguer Gin, up to chocolate sweet fritters with Sichuan ice-cream… these and many more dishes, accompanied by the best wine.

 We’ve provided the keys for an unbeatable day or weekend. Can you think of a better plan?

Today, we would like to introduce to you one of the restaurants of the city that never sleeps in order to deny this myth since, even if it is not always easy to find them, New York owns a wide and delicious range of gastronomy possibilities.

In this case, we have visited the Greenwich Village, on the West side of Lower Manhattan. The neighbourhood is famous for being a bastion of Bohemia and artistic culture and have been home of successful artists such as Bob Dylan.

On the Washington Street we found the well-known restaurant “The Standard Grill” of the Hotel The Standard. It offers different menus for breakfast, lunch, dinner and it also has a wide wine and cocktail list.

As a proof of their delicious meals, several magazines and newspapers such as Vogue or the New York Magazine have qualified it as “perfection” and “delicious”. The Time Out New York wrote a whole article recommending what we should eat and drink.

The famous American gastronomy magazine, Gourmet, mentions also the chef of the restaurant, Dan Silverman, awarded with prices like the “Best New Chef” or “20 Top Table” two years in a row. The magazine of the premium life, Robb Report, also writes that “Silverman excels at taking dishes you know and love and presenting the best renditions of them”.

If you have the incredible chance to be in New York, do not miss this wonderful experience that the restaurant offers. Besides, you may be able to meet some of the celebrities that usually go to this fantastic grill!

The quintessential Japanese drink comes at a time when the Spanish culture is more open than ever to change and innovation as says Paco Patón, director of catering at the Urban Hotel, as well as the hotel team and the Glass Bar barman Jose Manuel and Oscar.

Sake, a drink that Japanese people take on the rocks, has found their perfect implementation on the Western world in cocktails. As there is a very wide range of different types of sake, says Paton, it is assembled with countless  of bartending products.

However, there are many people who still do not dare to embark on this new trend. Paton argues hat it is just a beer without added hops so a sake combined cocktail supposes a much lower alcohol consumption than the traditional ones.

Sake combines with both Western and Oriental dishes, even with the most difficult as asparagus artichokes and endive.

Different food professionals are already aware of this growing trend and they say that is a perfect pairing with oysters, a totally new proposal in Spain. A combination that, like sake, is perfect for the appetizer.

Paton attributes the success of Japanese cuisine to the fact that enjoying the food and drink from a millennial people as Japanese helps you to know the character, the spirit of education and their personality.

To conclude, they told us all about the coming trends from the Japanese world, such as the Japanese whisky which has already a consecrated reputation in Spain.

Do not miss the chance to taste this delicious drink at the Glass Bar at the Urban Hotel. Our special recommendation: try it with our delicious oysters, you’ll love it!

Derby Hotels Collection proposes three nights in an exclusive suite at the fabulous Banke Hotel in Paris, Urban Hotel in Madrid or the just renewed Claris Hotel in Barcelona.

The welcoming defines perfectly what we can expect of this stay: glamour and luxury. Strawberries with chocolate and French champagne are just the beginning of some unforgettable days which will include limousine, sthetic and beauty service in the suite or a relaxing bath with salts and essences. Moreover, we will take care of a well deserved breakfast in bed for two in order to celebrate the new year.

For those who do not want to leave the Hotel, it is possible to enjoy a special menu on New Year’s Eve at the Hotel’s restaurant. The menus will be delicious and, just like the Hotels are, glamourous, tasteful and stylish.

Isleña is the first made in Ibiza beer of the market. With a most suitable slogan, The Beer of Ibiza, the first thing that catches the attention is the bottle desing and what better defines it, is its processing. A beer made with much of the barley grown in the fields of Ibiza. The result: a light beer, but with lots of character and above all, thanks to its gorgeous aluminum container, very fresh!

Nicolas Crison,  Armani’s PR, Antonio Diaz, Gucci’s PR, Raul Romero, Scalppers’ PR; Jose Maria Ruano, Director of Mettic; Ricardo Llamas, Loewe’s PR, stylist Bea Moreno de la Cova, artist dEmo, interior designer Nacho Garcia de Vinuesa, Fiona Ferrer, Adela Penedo, photographer Paul Lecroisey, Pedro Leon, Javier Torrescasana, Chus Bures and Crystal Gargoyles were some of the attendees who joined us that evening. Thank you everyone for the good times!