Gourmand's Guide, with careful selection of the best establishments, becomes 20 years old

Platja.Costa Dorada La Pineda. The 'Election Guide Gourmand Catalonia and Andorra, and other attractions', popularly known as the Guide Gourmand, was presented this past November 22 in the Grand Palais Hotel, La Pineda beach, in a ceremony that featured the presence of various professionals in the tourism, hospitality and catering. The 'Election Guide Gourmand Catalonia and Andorra, and other places of interest', journalists' work Felix Llovell and Ramon Segú, collaborators www.Salou.com has reached its twentieth edition, for the year 2011. The guide is presented simultaneously in Spanish and Catalan edition in hardcover format and re-edited by Arola Editors. In addition, the Guide Gourmand also be fully consulted on the Internet through the website: www.guiagourmand.com. The guide includes, among others, a selection of the best places on the Costa Dorada and the Terres de l'Ebre. In his speech to present the Guide Gourmand 2011, Peter Monk, the restaurant Via Veneto in Barcelona, highlighting the careers of journalists and Felix Llovell follow, the rigor and objectivity of the Guide Gourmand and the great contribution journalism has specialized in favor of the kitchen and the restoration of Catalan and Spanish, now recognized worldwide. Moreover, following the tradition of recent years, the Guide Gourmand was given their respective awards in 2011, which fell on the following establishments: Hotel of the Year 2011: Big Wheel Hotel, Playa La Pineda, Vila-seca. Restaurant of the Year 2011: Delicius (Balneario Vichy Catalan) Caldes de Malavella. Winery of the Year 2011: Clos Blanc de Barberà de la Conca. Restaurant of the Year 2011 in Andorra is Andorra, Andorra Park Hotel, Andorra la Vella. The awards were collected by Josep Colomer, on behalf of Hotel Grand Palas, Marisa Lozano, on behalf of Delicius, Gustav Joan, on behalf of Clos Montblanc Lladó and PereRomano, a representative of Andorra. The awards ceremony ended with the intervention of the editor of the Guide Gourmand, Alfred Arola, and the Councillor of Tourism of La Pineda Vila-seca Beach, Xavier Graset. Then the ceremony continued with a tasting menu prepared by Ion Garcia, chef of the Raccó, the Grand Hotel Palas La Pineda. Gourmand's Guide 2011, which is already in bookstores and can be purchased at a price of 20 euros, after this presentation for the Costa Dorada and the Terres de l'Ebre also be presented shortly in the surrounding region, specifically in Balneario Vichy Catalan, Caldes de Malavella and the Principality of Andorra, specifically the hotel Andorra Hotel, Andorra la Vella. Over 650 establishments Gourmand's Guide, under the direction and execution of journalists Ramon Segú and Felix Llovell, Arola Editors, and editing is a handy and useful annual volume containing the pages in its good restaurants and hotels in the Costa Dorada and the Lands of the Ebro, Catalonia and Andorra, with information updated every year. In the last chapter, entitled "other sites" also includes a careful selection of restaurants and hotels date from the rest of Spain and the French Riviera, Monaco, Paris and the Loire Valley this last edition is also recommended establishment of Germany's Black Forest, particularly the restaurant and hotel Bareiss. In total, the Gourmand Guide offers information on more than 650 establishments. In addition to the information of each establishment, the Guide also ranks Gourmand establishments. The valuation of the property set with the following criteria: kitchen, maximum 6 points. Bodega, decoration, frame, service details and a maximum of 4 points. The maximum total score 10 and in this 20th edition this year is a maximum score for the restaurant El Bulli, Roses, 10/10. On the Costa Dorada and the Lands of the Ebro, the best restaurants, as are the 2011 Gourmand Guide Can Bosch, Joan Gatell, Torreó de l´India (Retirement Village), Giorgio, La Grava, Les bruixes de Burriac, Les Moles and Les coques.

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