Monday, June 20, 2011

Know more about Michelin star restaurants


The Michelin guide is a set of annual guide books published by Michelin for over a dozen countries. This guide is popularly known as Michelin Red Guide. People can locate the best quality hotel or restaurant through this guide as it is the oldest and best-known European hotel and restaurant guide. The Michelin star system in Europe is the best-known and most respected ranking system for high-quality or haute cuisine restaurants.

Michelin star restaurants are developed and managed by skilled chefs sometimes referred to as “celebrity chefs.” In Europe, this guide is considered as a bible for gourmets and followers of haute cuisine. The guide awards one to three stars to a small number of restaurants of superb quality. It must be acknowledged that a e-star Michelin ranking is extremely rare. 

The selection of Michelin star restaurant is done by a rigorously selected and trained team of inspectors who visit the Michelin-recommended establishments and decide whether or not they will be included into the guide. Do you know that all meals and accommodations used by its inspectors are fully paid by the Michelin organization? Michelin ensures creativity and individuality within the restaurant sector and avoids standardization by NOT creating a written criterion for what constitutes the quality level required for the various star levels.

Friday, June 10, 2011

Restaurant gift vouchers for someone special


I am a marketing professional who love to enjoy doing something different. One of my close friends was having his birthday yesterday and I was thinking about what to gift him this year. Then somebody told me to buy restaurant gift vouchers. At the first I was slightly confused as what is this all about. Later I come to know this is a new gifting concept which involves giving restaurant vouchers that can be availed before a specific date. These vouchers are also referred to as gift vouchers, dining vouchers, and discount vouchers etc. 

There are primarily two types of restaurant gift vouchers. The first is generally free coupons that you can exchange for a discount on a meal or certain parts of the menu. Another type is generally a gift voucher or gift certificate. It normally allows you to avail a discount, up to the value of the voucher, on a meal at a particular restaurant or a chain of restaurants. These types of restaurant gift vouchers are generally used by people as a gift to someone. 

If you want to give someone these restaurant gift vouchers on any occasion, you can even buy them online. There are numerous websites where you can easily find these vouchers at great prices.