HOTEL CONFIDENTIAL The chef and food writer tells Lisa Grainger about six hotels with recipes for success 60 THOMPSON, NEW YORK place is really central, with a great bar and Thai restaurant. Plus, the rooms are a good size and modern. And itfun; the DJ attracts a young crowd to the bar (you wouldngo if [...]

As we set off down the coast of Turkey on a 500km drive from the Aegean to the Mediterranean, via the Datca and Bozburun Peninsulas where the two seas meet, my guide Burak Doganay puts me in the picture. Turkey has eight national borders influenced by several different religions and cultures,’he says. the south and [...]

L ABBAYE DE LA BUSSIERE Michelin This 12th-century Cistercian abbey is in a quiet comer of Burgundy, surrounded by rolling hills, lakes and parkland. In 2005 the Cummings family, then owners of Amberley Castle in Sussex, bought it from the church and undertook its conversion from spiritual retreat to five-star hotel. The result is magnificent, [...]