October 27, 2009 · 3 comments
in 101 Happy Hotelier,Awards,Belgium,Celebrity,Food,France,Hoteliers,Hotels,Maastricht,Marketing,Netherlands,News,The Hague,Wining and Dining
Yesterday, as the first of the 5 or 6 prestigious restaurant guides in The Netherlands, the Dutch version of the Gault Millau Guide presented its 2010 awards and 2010 guide with the best 500 and something Restaurants and best 220 Hotels of The Netherlands here around the corner in The Hague. I’m a bit sad I had to miss the ceremony…so near by.
Today I received the sticker proving the Gault Millau editors deem Haagsche Suites worthy to belong to the best 220 Dutch Hotels in their guide. Thank you Gault Millau for the quick service, that even beats the new listings on your own website :-)
Gault Millau started in France as a restaurant guide in 1969. It was founded by two restaurant critics, Henri Gault (1929-2000) and Christian Millau. The French site is a mere window for their paper guide.
Yesterday the Belgian and Luxemburg Branche of Gault Millau also presented its 2010 Guide and awards.
I grabbed the following from the Misset Horeca Site:
Plaese note the best restaurant has been awarded 20 points out of 20 which is remarkable in the Gault Millau history. At the same time our Belgian neighbors awarded a Dutchman, Roger van Damme the Chef of the year award for his Antwerp based lunches only restaurant.
Gault Millau’s top 13 Restaurants of The Netherlands:
| Points |
Restaurant |
City |
| 20 |
Oud Sluis |
Sluis |
| 19,5 |
Inter Scaldes |
Kruiningen |
| 19,5 |
Beluga |
Maastricht |
| 19,5 |
De Librije |
Zwolle |
| 19 |
De Leest |
Vaassen |
| 18 |
La Rive Amstel Hotel |
Amsterdam |
| 18 |
Chalet Royal |
Den Bosch |
| 18 |
De Lindenhof |
Giethoorn |
| 18 |
De Bokkedoorns |
Overveen |
| 18 |
Parkheuvel |
Rotterdam |
| 18 |
De Zwethheul |
Schipluiden |
| 18 |
De Leuf |
Ubachsberg |
| 18 |
‘t Brouwerskolkje |
Overveen |
Two of those top restaurants, Parkheuvel and De Zwetheul are easy to reach for a dinner when staying in Haagsche Suites.
Two other Restaurants Calla’s and Seinpost who also earned good points are even nearer to Haagsche Suites. Seinpost has the best wine food combining sommelier of 2010.
Austria, Italy, Germany and Switzerland each have their own Gault Millau guides.The US and the UK have their Gayot guides. Gayot was a friend of Gault and Millau and they published joint guides until a schism in 2000.
Gault Millau is said to be the guide of the food purists more than the Guide Michelin….
It’s a pity for the English language readers that Gotz Primke of Le Gourmand writes in German only: He really offers good content and inspired me for this topic:
Belgian artist Jacques Charlier has put together a veritable gallery of portraits based on conceptual analysis and personal interpretation of the “artistic attributes” of major representatives of modern and contemporary art, thus enabling, among other things, a humorous and satirical re-reading of recent art history. He had submitted 100 posters “100 sexes d’artistes” containing 100 more or less sexually tainted parodies of those 100 Artists for the 2009 Venice Biennial. His idea was to offer a clue and let the public guess who he was referring to. This photo points to Christo who wraps everything. However, both the curators and the mayor of Venice refused the posters as they feared the artists involved would be offended. Jacques interviewed all artists but one. They all reported to feel no offense.
Jacques protests with a site against this censorship and with an official vernissage (or is it venissage in this case?). See the above video.
The Brussels Museum of Modern Art backs his protest with an exhibition until September 13, 2009.
Now I wouldn’t have thought Italians to be as puritan as Americans. Would You?
This brings back memories of another protest at a Venice Biennial the one of 2005:
That of the Guerilla Girls against the “male chauvinist pigs” still ruling the Venice Biennial…L’Histoire se repete… Lol: yesterday it was 500 years ago that John Calvin was born…a sign of Calvinism in Venice maybe?
Hospitality veteran Johan Neppelenbroek had set up Historic Hotels of The Benelux as a split off from Erfgoedlogies in order to enable this group of hotels to join the international network of Historic Hotels.
As of August 1, 2008 Annemarieke van der Velden (see photo) has taken over Johan’s position. Johan’s investment in the label has been taken over by the Eden Hotel group. Currently the Eden Group manages 17 hotels and 9 restaurants in The Netherlands. With this acquisition Eden is preluding on its expansion plans outside The Netherlands in due course.
According to insiders the fact that a single hotel group takes over the management of the association will not lead to a loss of member hotels.
Historic Hotels of the Benelux has 33 member hotels in The Netherlands en 17 member hotels in Belgium.
Historic Hotels of the Benelux is a member of Historic Hotels of Europe
Historic Hotels of Europe is a partner of Historic Hotels of America
I wish Annemarieke a lot of success with this new venture.
April 13, 2007 · 0 comments
in Austria,Belgium,Blogging,Czech Republic,France,Germany,Greece,Italy,Netherlands,Switzerland,Turkey
Today I discovered the nicely written Shortcut, A European City Blog with a nice lay out. It writes about 17 European cities.
It used to write about upcoming events, but nowadays in true web 2.0 style it links through to Yahoo’s Upcoming.
A pity Shortcut don’t feature The Hague.
Go enjoy yourself!
Added July 1, 2007
I changed the URL as they have moved to another provider.
