Since 1950 Relais & Châteaux offers their “Route du Bonheur” concept, a suggestion to travel along their exceptional restaurants (relais) and hotels (châteaux). First they stretched along France’s Autoroute du Soleil from Paris to the Côte d’Azur, the French riviera. Today they span a global network of luxurious hotels and restaurants.
A gourmet restaurant belongs in a luxury hotel. So far, so good. But what if the highly-decorated head chef retires and is replaced by a “young wild one”? The new man clued me in personally…