It is a well-known fact that, unlike with visual and intellectual experience, our memory conserves an idelible record of taste. Once we encounter and register a specific taste or smell, we will remember it for the rest of our lives, no matter how many years go by before we come across it again.

That is why true, in-depth and authentic knowledge of a place inevitably entails an encounter with local cuisine, its most immediate, basic and genuine expression.

The taste of tradition speaks volumes without uttering a single word, its explains things without needing to put that explanation into words, it tells us more about a place and its people than 100 books or 100 museums could ever do, because it offers us a distilled “essence of place” without any intermediary, without any fi ltre other than our own palate and our own sense of smell.

That is why the hotel restaurant offers food and drink that reflect local tradition.