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Inside the Regent Grand Hotel Bordeaux

Where: 2-5 Place de la Comédie, Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France, 33000

While in France recently, we took a quick trip from Paris down to Bordeaux, which is literally quick as we’re talking about a train trip on Rail Europe's TGV that takes under 3 hours. The idea was to hang out in the UNESCO World Heritage city, otherwise known as the “Port of the Moon” thanks to its crescent shape along the Garonne River, but of course we had to have a great hotel too.

We decided to camp out at the city’s only five-star hotel, the recently restored Regent Grand Hotel Bordeaux—not least of all so we could try the fancy signature lobster dish prepared using a 30,000 Euro silver Christophle lobster press at the hotel’s Michelin-starred restaurant, Le Pressoir d’Argent—but in the meantime, we snapped this photo gallery and video of our Junior Suite:

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Futuristic Bordeaux Hotel Functions As If Hungover

Where: 54 Quai de Bacalan, Bordeaux, France, 33300

When in Bordeaux, though some might enjoy more classical or idyllically French things, or wine, some might go avant-garde. But the New York Times wouldn't.

The marginally positive review in "Check-in, Check-out," of the sleek and new Seeko'o Hotel uses most of its word count to list technical, um, difficulties, that were not addressed during the course of the reviewer's stay. Seth Sherwood writes:

My room, No. 101, a “junior suite” was really just a semispacious hotel room (for 180 euros). The “business center,” similarly, was a lone Internet-linked computer in the lobby. Moreover, the room smelled of cigarettes and looked out on a row of decrepit buildings.

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If You're Going to Splurge at the Regent Bordeaux, You Might as Well Order the Lobster

Where: 2-5 Place de la Comedie, Bordeaux, France, 33000

We've heard there's been a "culinary renaissance" going on in Bordeaux, Paris' vino-licious sister, as "new Bordelais chefs have been invigorating the culinary scene."

Meanwhile, the Regent Grand Hotel Bordeaux, has been busy invigorating the hotel scene as the first amd only five-star hotel to open its doors in Bordeaux.

Inside the hotel, the 48-seat Le Pressoir d'Argent, serving up haute seafood cuisine, and has already established a reputation for an elaborate lobster dish that may be worth the trip:

This intricate menu item involves the restaurant's namesake silver lobster press, one of only five in the world. An elaborate gastronomic production, a choice Breton lobster is first presented live, then brought to the kitchen to be pan-cooked and served atop fresh pasta. The dish is completed in the dining room. The lobster's shell is compressed in the elegant silver press, using the lobster's essence to create a reduction to accompany the dish.

Oh lord! Maybe you'll hit the wine bottle before this whole ordeal so you don't have to think much about seeing him alive before he gets in your belly.

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HotelChatter World's Cutest Concierge: Nominee Alexandre

Where: 2 rue de Condé, Bordeaux, France

Hotel: The Majestic Hotel
Location: Bordeaux, France
Name: Alexandre Zeissloff
Division: Male

[Editor's Note: Yes, you can nominate folks that did a great job for you during your stay...that is the point of the contest, We are hoping these folks will get recognized for their good work...even if it is as the "World's Cutest Concierge".]

The Sunday Times Travel section tips us off to a top notch concierge in Bordeaux.

Here is his tip du jour, straight from the Times interview:

"Don't leave town without tasting our traditional canelés cakes.  We eat them with coffee or as a desert."

Nominate someone now.

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