A recent survey of international travelers named Brussels as the "most boring city in Europe." I honestly don't get what they're moaning about. I've been drawn to the Belgian capital since I first visited years ago, despite living in the much more "highly-rated" city of Paris. ...

It was movie director Isabel Coixet who first introduced me to Hotel Omm. During an interview I asked for her top 10 of things to do in Barcelona. Eating a beef tatar with mustard ice cream at the then new hotel’s Restaurant Moo came in second on the list. A later visit proved the restaurant – one star in the Michelin guide – to be only part of the attractions....

Paris receives some compensation after being totally overshadowed by Tokyo in the latest Michelin restaurant-guide. In the Restaurant Magazine’s recently released list of the World’s 50 Best Restaurants no less than eight Parisian restaurants are ranked...

The Michelin restaurant-guide has been extremely generous towards Tokyo. In the Tokyo-guide – Michelin’s first guide outside Europe and the United States – nothing less than 191 Michelin-stars are awarded to 150 Tokyo-restaurants. No city has ever been...