Any real estate maven will tell you that location is everything – and at the Hotel Crystal, you are steps away from Printemps, one of France’s leading department stores, as well as a few minutes’ walk from the beautiful Stanislas Square. Nearly everything you wish to see or visit in Nancy is within walking distance…
You know you’re in the right establishment when your hotel room is on the cover of one of France’s leading design magazines. The recent opening of La Villa 1901 has generated much buzz and stellar press, including a recent multi-page pictorial in Cote Est. Opened in November 2011 and located in a tranquil residential…
Macaroons are the cupcakes of France: they’re everywhere – and all through France, claims are made as to which “macarons” are the ones with pedigree or the royal stamp or the best-loved by the locals. The city of Nancy in northeastern France has one of the best claims to macaroon supremacy with a story that…
Back in the old days, when recycling was first introduced as a national objective, my mother eschewed holiday gift wrap and, instead, insisted that every member of her family wrap their gifts in newspaper. “Why not aluminum foil?” asked my brother. “Why not toilet paper?” My mother would approve of Element by Westin, the eco-wise…
Twenty-five years ago, the idea that the Commonwealth of Virginia might rival some of the more established wine regions of the United States would have seemed laughable – to most. Most, but not all – for the 20th-century winemakers who planted grapes in the state of Virginia well knew that wine has been produced in Virginia…
By now you’re savvy enough to know: true Champagne can only come from the Champagne region of France. Hence the uppercase. If the word “champagne” is in lower case or accompanied by the words “méthode traditionnelle,” then you’re looking at sparking wine that utilizes the “French method” – but, as they say in France, “Ceci…
Renovated in 2011, the three-star Campanile Reims Centre is located within a five-minute walk to the center of Reims. The modern rooms are a bit like an adolescent boy’s bedroom, painted in Granny Smith apple green and furnished with a candy apple red chair. Framed paintings of race cars hang on the walls above the…
Life in Manhattan is sometimes like a Hollywood romance from the Thirties – and especially when listening to the songs of Cole Porter and Noel Coward while happily sipping tea in the Empire Deco splendor of the Stanford White-designed Lambs Club in the theatre district. Named for Charles Lamb, the renowned 19th-century London drama critic…