Introduction Of all the restaurants on our European trip, my wife wanted to eat at Tickets (don’t ask me why.) I didn’t learn until later that it’s #32 in the World. Anyhow, let me tell you that getting a reservation is HARD. They open reservations exactly 2 months out at midnight Barcelona time, which was good […]
Introduction Rated the #2 restaurant in the world in 2018 (ranked #1 twice in the past) I was very much looking forward to dining at El Celler de Can Roca. I had AMEX Plat concierge make reservations about 2 months out and they were able to find us a lunch reservation at 1PM on a […]
Introduction We stayed here in early July 2018. I had booked our 5 nights on points – 20,000 points per night, 80K total due to 5th night free on points. We decided to go with this one instead of the W because this is more centrally located. We walked to every meal and every tourist […]
Introduction San Sebastian has the most Michelin stars per capita or whatnot. We decided to go with the Michelin 3 star restaurant Akelare because a) we couldn’t get reservations at Arzak and b) my friend had gone recently and enjoyed it. AMEX concierge had no problems booking us a lunch reservation. We took the bus […]
Introduction Dstage is a Michelin 2 star restaurant in Madrid. We went on a reco from a reader in July of 2018. I had an AMEX Plat concierge book it for me. It was a bad sign that AMEX was able to score a good dining reservation on the first try, then get the date […]