Your children have given you a dinner in one of the best restaurants with michelin star as a silver wedding present and you already imagine the dress, the menu that you only know when you arrive and a wine so exquisite that thinking about where you will sleep is the least of it.
There are as many excuses as desires when it comes to getting lost among the proposals of the next most remote restaurants in the world , but finding that accommodation where you can complete the experience is a great little detail that we should not underestimate.
Accommodation near Etxebarri, Bizkaia.
ETXEBARRI GRILL, BIZKAIA
Bittor Arginzoniz has managed to place twice Etxebarri Grill as the third best restaurant in the world in the list of The 50 World's Best Restaurants. Hosted in a family farm , this Michelin-starred steakhouse is located in the Biscayan town of Axpe , of only 238 inhabitants.
A remote location that invites you to taste the creations of this magician of the embers for whom the different types of firewood draw new symphonies. Smoke tattoos of a family tradition in which there is no lack kokotxas, sea breams, barnacles or sautéed chanterelles , among other proposals that recalibrate the senses.
If you decide to book at Asador Etebarri, Airbnb offers us Goikomaia accommodation, a typical Basque farmhouse in the Atxondo valley and only 6 minutes by taxi from the restaurant.
Narbasu, Martial House, Asturias.
MARCIAL HOUSE, ASTURIAS
Awarded two Michelin stars, Casa Marcial is the bastion of the chef Nacho Manzano and his two sisters, Esther and Sandra , responsible for moving us to their roots through the kitchen. Casa Marcial is a practically isolated restaurant between the Asturian mountains and 5 km from the town of Arriondas where you travel to the flavors of the land, capable of reconnecting with the past through different dishes and two menus tasting (“Vega”, inspired by the sea, and “Pienzu”, an ode to the mountains).
Casa Marcial itself has accommodation for its clients in Narbasu, hotel restaurant housed in the Palacio Rubianes , a typical Asturian construction from the 14th century with views of the Picos de Europa and 20 minutes from the restaurant (transfer included).
Eco Hotel La Mota, Cocentaina.
L'ESCALETA, COCENTAINA, ALICANTE
L’Escaleta was born like many great icons: in the anonymity of a semi-basement in the Alicante town of Concentaina . The dream of Kiko Moya, the middle son of Francisco and Rita, the original founders, was to transfer the original creation to a family home on the slopes of Montcabrer where today they emulsify the contrasts. Awarded with two two Michelin stars , L'Escaleta offers a unique menu with "its rice squared" and the selection of its winery as the spearhead of the proposal. At L'Escaleta we are all witnesses to a succession of dishes that change and transform around identity as a compass.
If you decide to book in L'Escaleta, you can find several Airbnb accommodations, such as the Eco Hotel La Mota, a charming farmhouse B&B in the nearby town of Alcoy.
Duplex near Casa Solla.
SOLLA HOUSE, PONTEVEDRA, GALICIA
The pandemic came to reinvent some businesses, and we found a good benchmark at Casa Solla, a restaurant run by Pepe Solla, rocker, surfer and son of a Michelin star, that of his father, received in 1980 . A gastronomic home in the little town of Poio that is the best window to that green and magical Galicia: confirmed by its location, its menus, the 4000 square meter orchard that self-sufficient Solla's imaginary, or the initiative Any given Sunday, which combines food and live music in the garden during the months of good weather.
Enjoy this experience by taking a taxi to this Airbnb duplex in Pontevedra, just 5 minutes from Casa Solla.
Maison Robantine, France.
BRAS, LAGUIOLE, FRANCE
In a lost town l'Aubrac Regional Park , in the south of France, we find the house-restaurant of the Bras , whose patriarch Michel Bras handed over the reins to his son Sebastian in 2009. The mission? Make them last over time three Michelin stars of this gourmet paradise where the stew reveals new textures, the Foie gras of grilled canard it melts in your mouth and the filet de bouef is incomprehensible without the aligot, a typical mashed potato with cheese. Fragments of a universe of its own, of mediterranean light and secret vegetable worlds seasoned with the characteristic “touche” of this lineage between stoves.
The Bras family is in everything and you can stay in the luxury hotel from the restaurant itself, Le Suquet, in the heart of the Laguiole countryside. As alternatives, we find newly restored Maison Robantine, Provencal home between the nearby villages of Soulages Bonneval and Château du Bousquet.
Apartment in Torshavn, Faroe Islands.
KOKS, FAROE ISLANDS
Between Scotland, Iceland and Denmark, two Michelin stars shine in the heart of the Faroe Islands. A landing, waves crashing against the cliffs, and an old dark-wood farmhouse that's home to another of the best restaurants in the world…and the most remote on Earth. Managed by Chef Poul Andrias Ziska , KOKS is located near Kirkjubour, a town of 80 inhabitants on Streymoy Island , and their proposals speak of gannets, seagulls and even whales as a way of rooting haute cuisine with the traditions of this lost world. We are not talking about restaurants, but about temples, nor about dinners, but about new rituals.
Although KOKS will close its doors from June 2022 to 2023 to migrate to the no less inhospitable Greenland , you still have time to make your reservation and stay in this apartment in the town of Torshavn, just 6 minutes by car (or taxi) from KOKS.
Kima Beach House, Zanzibar.
THE ROCK, ZANZIBAR
Exotic and picturesque, The Rock is a restaurant that never leaves the visitor indifferent. Built on a reef off the southeast coast of the main island of Zanzibar , The Rock offers a most exclusive location without detracting from a menu of the most outstanding dishes: couscous with vegetables, lobster, octopus and other freshly caught seafood. Its coconut tiramisu closes the proposal of this global oasis surrounded by a splashed indian of palm trees and typical ngalawa canoes.
to just 10 minutes by taxi from The Rock we found the town Kima Beach House , an Eden on the beachfront, under palm vaults and panoramic views of the mermaid.
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