The Miro Hotel is located between Bilbao’s Museum of Fine Arts and Frank Gehry’s legendary Guggenheim Bilbao. The hotel is a member of Design Hotels which credits the building for managing to carve it’s own identity, architecturally, whilst surrounded by such ‘prestigious neighbours’. The hotel is named after Catalan fashion designer Antonio Miró rather than Joan Miró the famous painter and sculptor.…

Lasarte is a restaurant in Barcelona with 2 Michelin stars. It is a intimate space with simple designs and murals inspired by Gaudi. Their website says that their recipe for success is a simple one. They just ‘work, strive, feel, listen, talk, taste, observe, thrill, improve, excite, think, imagine, inspire, decorate, pamper, reflect, research and work –…

La Villa Duflot is a four star hotel and gourmet restaurant outside of central Perpignan. The hotel has a very relaxed feel and is decorated comfortably and stylishly. It’s a very serene place to stay and enjoy some peace and quiet. The rooms have a pleasant art-deco look, the restaurant serves great local food and…

The Clarence is a simple but stylish boutique hotel overlooking the River Liffey in Dublin. It is well known for being owned by Bono and The Edge from U2 but is also a quality hotel in it’s own right. It’s decoration is very traditional and quite basic, maybe even slightly dull, compared to some other hotels…