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Set wrong an enclosed plot with rooms featuring terraces and balconies overlooking an open-air swimming excavation and bar, La Villa Duflot is simply a tranquil retreat adjacent Perpignan, south-west France.
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Mediterranean successful style, with creation deco furnishings, the temper affected by the 4-star hotel’s interior decor is bright, lukewarm and uplifting.
Sand-wood floors, ocher-colored walls and floor-to-ceiling windows opposition with vintage walnut furnishings and brushed beige armchairs successful the spacious well-lit lobby. Palm trees successful elephantine intricately-designed golden pots adhd a consciousness of exoticism, accentuated by an interior plot featuring olive and orangish trees and a marble fountain.
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The hotel’s spacious lobby provides plentifulness of seating for guests arsenic does the 2nd level with a wide wrought-iron balcony granting views below. One country of the crushed level is simply a comfy room with brushed navy bluish and brownish leather armchairs and lacquered table. Here you’ll find novels, including classics by Shakespeare, Camus and Baudelaire, photography books and adjacent a implicit acceptable of question magazines. French newspapers and The New York Times capable a array adjacent for impermanent speechmaking pleasure.
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Our room, 1 of 29 successful the hotel, was successful the enforcement class and located connected the crushed level with a tiny terrace with seating facing the swimming excavation and garden. Among the amenities, speech from a level surface TV, minibar, refrigerator and espresso maker, was a ample bath-tub, abstracted from the shower, that could besides beryllium enjoyed arsenic a jacuzzi with button-operated lighting effects and changeable h2o jets.
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The hotel’s edifice is not to beryllium missed, with an awesome paper ranging from bluish lobster of Brittany to fois gras with candied pear and chili among the starters and lamb rack, goose bosom and assorted food dishes among the main courses.
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Bathed successful earthy airy with views of the swimming excavation and gangly umbrella pines successful the garden, the edifice with cook Mickael Meunier successful charge, offers a classical French ambience with immaculate achromatic tablecloths, sparkling cutlery and an charismatic array centrepiece of acorns and berries.
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Our starter of bluish lobster came arsenic an elegantly designed crockery with slices of the nutrient acceptable checker-board benignant among a dollop of avocado with thyme ice-cream and mousse of raspberry and guacamole topped with roasted avocado.
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Having eaten truthful overmuch reddish nutrient implicit the erstwhile week (hard to debar successful France), my companion and I some opted for the much steadfast seafood dishes. My turbot came arsenic a generous portion of brushed achromatic food marinated with turmeric and involvement mushroom, lightly pan-fried, and topped by mango caviar with puree of celeriac. My companion’s choice, maigre (stone bass) was a airy fillet, its texture complemented by the earthiness of the roasted potatoes and the lukewarm spices of the sauce, a operation of bouillabaisse stew and sobrassade, Catalan sausage. Tiny threads of saffron grown connected the slopes of the adjacent Canigou upland brightened some sheet and palate.
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Don’t disregard the food sheet and dessert temptations. With a goat farm, La Chevrerie Du Mas d’en Blanc, little than 10 kilometers away, the cheeses comprise caller airy varieties and the much aged and dense, tomme, some served with reddish capsicum marmalade. Our luncheon was served by the affable and informative, Emma Ferrano. We opted for vino tastings for each course, each selected by sommelier, Christian Lopez. They included a 2020 Silex from Domaine Terres Plurielles from adjacent Tautavel and Impromptu from Domaine de la Meunerie southbound of Perpignan.
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For food accompaniment, Christian chose a distinct, quasi-like sherry 2015 achromatic vino from Domaine Du Bac from Vingrau.
As a finale, effort the Varlhoha cocoa with truffle and bitters. You whitethorn privation to lick your plate.
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Another leisure enactment astatine La Villa Duflot is to indulge your senses astatine the hotel’s spa, operated nether the Nuxe brand, wherever I enjoyed a abbreviated massage fixed by therapist, Roman, which helped easiness symptom successful my hep and leg, followed by a stint successful the sauna and hammam.
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Mention indispensable besides beryllium made of affable wide manager, Philip Chabroulin. With acquisition successful each aspects of edifice absorption successful some Europe and the US, including immoderate premier hotels successful the Relais & Chateaux association, Philip has created an businesslike and welcoming unit astatine La Villa Duflot, owned for the past 10 years by Amelie and Emmanuel Stern.
Tranquil arsenic its mounting is, connected 1.5 hectares of parkland successful the bosom of the Pyrénées-Orientales region, the edifice besides offers the convenience of being 15 minutes from downtown Perpignan and a 45-minute thrust from the Spanish border.
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