Euro-Style Travel and Culture

Bistro Vendome – Denver

A pleasant French style bistro, located in a courtyard just off the busy downtown pedestrian street, this restaurant offers simple and familiar French cuisine made with fresh local ingredients. As their website claims, “This is purposefully a bistro, not a café nor a brasserie. The...

Meritage – St Paul

An up-scale French Brasserie in St Paul Minnesota, Meritage has won numerous awards for its French cuisine and James Beard nominations for French trained Owner/Chef Russell Klein. Featuring an oyster bar, specialties such as Duck a la Presse, patio seating in the summer, and an extensive wine...

Restaurant Excelsior – Nancy, France

A French Brasserie in the grand style! This restaurant thrives in an art nouveau former hotel building, dating to 1911. It is now part of the Brasserie Flo group of restaurants in France, but maintains a distinct character of its own. Featuring a typical brasserie menu and oyster-seafood bar...

TGV de l’est

The French Train Grand Vitesse – TGV – has been the mainstay of the French rail network, with routes from Paris to the Southwest, Southeast and North. Howerver, it is only recently that the “TGV of the East” from Paris to Strasbourg was completed. While previous...

FAST TRAINS – WHY NOT HERE?

The French have had a network of fast trains since the 80’s. The Spanish, Italians Belgians, Germans…essentially all of Western Europe have followed with 200 mph trains cris-crossing the continent. High speed trains run the length of the Japanese main island. The Chinese have...