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Best Hotel-Inspired Cookbooks for Your Next Night In

by Holly Riddle

Nov 24, 2017

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Looking for something yummy to whip up this weekend? What about finding an impressive recipe for your next date night? Try one of these hotel-inspired cookbooks to spark some travel-related conversation over some excellent dining.

The Small Luxury Cookbook

Even if you aren’t familiar with the Small Luxury Hotels of the World brand, you may have stayed in one of the properties boasting the coveted recognition. Celebrating only the best of the best in boutique hotels, SLH knows its stuff. The brand’s latest cookbook has 150 recipes from properties around the world, all for first courses. Sounds like somebody needs to host an all-apps night.

The NoMad Cookbook

Dining at The NoMad in New York is an elevated experience entirely. Enjoy the chefs’ beautiful collection of recipes, whether you’re just reading or want to do some excellent cooking. Cocktails are included, and the restaurant’s famed chicken with truffle stuffing recipe is there for you to replicate.

The Raffles Hotel Cookbook

The Singapore restaurant compiles a collection of its best-loved dishes from each of its six restaurants. There’s a full range of cuisines to choose from, whether you prefer French, Indian, Singaporean or Chinese. However, this one may be for the more adventurous chef, and some of the exotic ingredients can be difficult to find.

Claridge’s: The Cookbook

Even the cookbook’s simplistic blue-green cover speaks to elegance. The highly revered London luxury hotel produces more than 100 amazing recipes from its dining establishments, from the more complex dishes to the most simple.

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