Movie “Shining” – Hotel Stanley / Colorado / USA

House & Hotel Magazine features the Stanley Hotel. Everyone knows this great georgian hotel, worldfamous because of the movie Shining with Jack Nicholson.

The Stanley Hotel, known for its architecture, magnificent setting, and famous visitors, may possibly be best known today for its inspirational role in the Stephen King’s novel, “The Shining.” This Colorado hotel has been featured as one of America’s most haunted hotels and with the numerous stories from visitors and staff. Forced by poor health to move West, F.O. Stanley arrived in Estes Park in 1903. Finding the town lacking in amenities, F.O. set out to change the local economy. On the 160 acres he purchased from Lord Dunraven, Stanley first built the main building of the hotel, one of 11 buildings in the original complex. Many of those original buildings remain in use today on the remaining 55 acres. There is no hotel in Estes Park more appealing and mysterious. It was opened 1909, catering to the rich and famous, including e.g. the Titanic survivor Margaret Brown, John Philip Sousa, Theodore Roosevelt, the Emperor and Empress of Japan, and a variety of Hollywood personalities. The hotel and its surrounding lands are listed on the National Register of Historic Places
The Stanley Hotel also hosted the horror novelist Stephen King, inspiring him to write The Shining. Parts of The Shining movie were filmed there.

In 1909, Mr. Stanley opened the elegant Stanley Hotel, he built the hotel on land that he had purchased from the British Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl. Dunraven came to the area in 1872 while on a hunting trip. He built a hunting lodge, cabin, and hotel for his guests and illegally homesteaded up to 60 km2 in an unsuccessful attempt to create a private hunting preserve.

Many believe the Stanley Hotel is haunted, having reported a number of cases of ghostly activity, primarily in the ballroom. Kitchen staff have reported to have heard a party going on in the ballroom, only to find it empty. People in the lobby have allegedly heard someone playing the ballroom’s piano; employees investigating the music purportedly found nobody sitting at the piano. This same apparition is allegedly responsible for stealing guests’ watches, and luggage. Others reported to have seen ghosts in their rooms in the middle of the night, simply standing in their room before disappearing.
Stephen King got the idea for The Shining after staying in room 217 in the almost empty hotel on the night before it closed for an extended period.

If yo travel via NY:

Resto tips:

“Per Se” in New York hold three Michelin stars, and he is generally regarded as the top resto in America.

Per Se resides on the fourth floor of the smart Time Warner Center on Columbus Circle. Its private dining room has an attractive view over Central Park.

Per Se is noted for its lengthy, intricate tasting menus of carefully crafted dishes. The service is faultless, the staff supported by a sophisticated system that records guests’ every preference. If a diner is left-handed or has a particular ingredient like or dislike, these details will automatically be taken into account upon the next visit. One couple visited Per Se after dining at French Laundry on their honeymoon, and were taken aback that the waiter at Per Se knew exactly what they had eaten in Napa and had prepared an entirely different set of dishes for this meal.

The restaurant has a famously wide repertoire, but a menu might include “oysters and pearls,” a clever dish of sabayon of pearl tapioca with Island Creek oysters and Sterling White sturgeon caviar, the elements of the dish combining perfectly, prettily served in a Limoges porcelain dish. It might be followed later in the meal by “quail in a jar,” deboned quail with duck foie gras, lettuce and a few drops of 100-year-old balsamic vinegar, offered with toasted brioche. The same care and attention goes into the seafood dishes, such as tender Nova Scotia lobster, served with pea tendrils and sweet carrot emulsion that balance the lobster’s richness. “Coffee and doughnuts,” which consists of intensely flavored coffee semifreddo with steamed milk, paired with a silky cinnamon sugared beignet, makes for a nice finish.

Even over a multicourse menu, the cooking technique never falters: The tightly run kitchen at Per Se produces an unusually consistent standard. The combination of exquisitely crafted food with flawless and discreet service is a winning combination. If you are looking for a sophisticated private dining experience in New York, you will find none better than Per Se.

Resto tip #2 Chanterelle

The restaurant has a normal dining room with bare walls and a high ceiling.
The tasting menu was yummy but not superior: the best was a butternut squash ravioli with a stunning oxtail ragout and a little sage cream.
The bass was cooked well and we enjoyed different cheeses, including some from France, nice and well made, accompanied by a ginger ice cream.
Nice evening.