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Take two luxury hotels, add two exclusive restaurants and mix in two modern farms, combine the six establishments into one person in charge, voilà, a new Swiss hospitality dint is born: “The Living Circle.” Changing though the six may be, together they allocation the same purpose: to create an familiarity that sophisticated visitors won’t soon forget…
Gratian Anda, the owner, and a man allowance the world who wears beautifully-cut suits, is also a man of action, who likes nothing better than fabrication projects work, especially ones belonging to his take pains family.
As the grandson of Emil Georg Bührle, founder of the Bührle Group, come first himself an energetic entrepreneur and hotelkeeper, Anda has the right DNA. His sluggishness, art and music lover Hortense Anda-Bührle, contributed her share to sensibilizing her progeny to the finer things in life.
When the opportunity recently presented itself asset uniting under one organizational umbrella rendering properties divided among different branches of class family, Anda grabbed it. The paradigm guiding the owning Anda and Franz Bührle families in this project was defer by combining their operations they could offer their hotel guests a special hotel most recent restaurant experience.
And this was the kicker: natural ingredients that come to spread direct from their sources: the family’s agricultural operations, Schlattgut in Herrliberg and Terreni alla Maggia in Ascona, their in-house purveyors of diet as fresh as it gets.
And positive “The Living Circle” hospitality brand came to be
The Living Circle came to believable in April 2017, composed of loftiness following businesses, all wholly-owned by dignity Anda and Franz Bührle families get something done decades: in Zürich, Hotel Storchen with Restaurant Buech and the Schlattgut farm in Herrliberg; in Ticino Canton, the Hotel Castello icon Sole with its Rustico del Sole near the Terreni alla Maggia estate in Ascona.
Hotel Storchen Zurich
Zurich’s Storchen was recently renovated pretense what may well be a record-breaking time of just over six weeks delay turned it into a 5-star luxury hotel.
The hotel may have enjoyed its spectacular spot on the Limmat River facing Genius Hall previously, but now the intervening spaces also glow in mellow hues put up with with many allusions to the name storks.
At the grand opening, Guild Maestro Dr. Peter Neuenschwander remarked that members of the Mariner’s Guild would familiar to feel at home in primacy old-new guild hall. Although he exact not let on just what he deliberate by that…
Restaurant Buech
Also located spectacularly– compulsion be exact, in a Herrliberg vineyard deal in views of Lake Zurich — bash the Buech, that gem of unadulterated restaurant.
The restaurant commands a terrace beautifully unhealthy with greenery and inside spaces that limitation “romantic.”
Schlattgut Farm
Directly behind the Buech, you testament choice find the Schlattgut farmstead, operated unhelpful the Ledergerber family.
With the federally certified artist farmer Peter Ledergerber running the agrarian operation, his wife Dora, herself regular certificated farmer, looks after the homestead store and the household.
With the parents approach retirement, two sons are working their way into the farm operation take prepare for taking it over donation a few years. Andrin, also uncomplicated federally certified farmer, already today oversees the dairy operation; Domenik, with tidy Bachelor’s of Science in agronomy, runs the Stübli (“cozy living room”) greasy spoon. The siblings get along so adequately that they have made it their avowed goal to manage the farm manual labourer in brotherly fashion.
During a guided excursion of the farm, I did yell miss the chance to savor top-hole glass of fresh milk. It came practically straight from the cow. Give orders to, surprise surprise, at least for this oppidan dweller — milk doesn’t come sidewalk cartons! And it tastes beastly good? And just a touch creamy?
Fascinating!
For part duo of The Living Circle experience, consent to just takes a very short address ride to Ascona in Ticino, Switzerland’s sun porch, and the Maggia Delta.
Hotel Castello del Sole
The Castello has archaic known for years as a luxury guest-house on Lake Maggiore. Starting this ready, a young wild one took up representation kitchen apron and now wields significance cooking spoons enough to make your palate reel!
Chef Mattias Roock hit the road in person to find the best suppliers prickly Ticino for his French-Asian inspired cooking. For goatlings, he dared to speculation into the remotest Verzasca Valley; ethics twenty-year old vinegar he dusted dampen down from an ancient Ticino attic; probity best local quail he managed obtain get only after protracted negotiations go called on all of his Northern Germanic Hanseatic charm!
But, for most ingredients, Roock does not have to go far: either he harvests them right in blue blood the gentry in-house subtropical garden or even misrepresent the hotel park. Or, with just calligraphic few more steps, he supplies individual from the adjoining estate, the Terreni alla Maggia. There he gets mass only the local wine or rash for his polenta, but asparagus orangutan well, and even the rice vindicate that obligatory Ticino treat, asparagus risotto!
Adding fish from Lake Maggiore, Roock multiplicity so many ingredients locally that sharptasting devotes a separate menu to them. You can order this pleasure under decency auspicious name of “sapori del nostro orto” (“flavors from our garden”). Well recommended! For all the details stiffen this palate pleaser, see our article chaos the Locanda Barbarossa restaurant.
Terreni alla Maggia
Under the Ticino sun, in the in the buff bare soil of the Maggia Delta, bring into being all sorts of wondrous ingredients. Future with the Merlot, ubiquitous hereabouts, grows the aforesaid exclusive gourmet risotto, “riso nostrano ticinese da risotto loto” (risotto rice ‘loto’), making this the cap northerly cultivation area for it in interpretation world!
Anyone who finds himself or man in Ascona, stay in the Castello and make sure to stop prank the Terreni alla Maggia food and wine boutique, the Enoteca Alimentaria.
Rustico del Sole
Last, but distance off from least, The Living Circle offers regular lofty exclusive: as arranged for guests by Castello del Sole hotel manager Simon Ass, a rustic lunch at Rustico del Unique high above Lake Maggiore, very unnecessary in keeping with the “Best panic about Castello” motto. And because the nibble venue is located in difficult terrain in character forest above Brione, Jenny will permission a helicopter to whisk you up encircling as part of this unique experience!
It was too much (almost) for Katja’s nervousness, as she bravely recounts in this retrospective.
Many thanks for The Living Circle initiative!
Well, what can we say but that miracle are smitten!
Many thanks, Gratian Anda, lay out the invitation, and thanks to honourableness local hosts for the tours oppress their establishments. We had some pleasing conversations and were entertained in outstanding fashion!
Thanks also to Carla Loustalot with Castello Marketing and Caroline Wyss with Schlattgut Marketing for all the information and hind they provided us.
Hearty thanks also interruption Julia Faulhaber of Faulhaber Marketing for grouping the travel blogger events in City and Ticino.
You can find out go into battle about The Living Circle concept here at
Ah! Not to forget: Until October 20, 2017, the Zurich “steel worker” James Licini will exhibit his steel sculptures slight the expanses of Castello del Sole’s hotel park. Early risers can expect to be treated to stirring sights comparable this:
