Ever tried to cook with essential oils? Ever visited a restaurant where the head chef practices ‘aroma cuisine’ and cooks with essential oils and fresh herbs? No? Then you should definitely read this article … What is an essential oil? It sounds complicated but if you read the various definitions it is not … an essential oil is a concentrated liquid containing aroma elements from plants, they are also known as ethereal oils or ‘the oil of the plant from

After a successful cooperation with the “MQ Vienna Fashion Week” in 2009 we decided to become their official hotel partner again this year. This fashion highlight is organized by “creative headz“, an innovative team with a vision to organize a fashion event of international standards. This year (September 22th – 26th) guests enjoyed fashion shows by Michel Mayer, Anelia Peschev, Gebrüder Stitch, Rona Bastanoglu, Gina Drewes, Marcel Ostertag, Lena Hoschek, ep_anoui, Andreea Tincu and many more designers. Several side events
Wonderful news to share! Our restaurant At Eight at The Ring, Vienna’s Casual Luxury Hotel, has been rewarded with its second toque by the most important and influential Austrian gourmet guide, Gault Millau. With this award, the restaurant and Chef Thomas Seifried have earned themselves the second toque in the second year of operation, which one may definitely call a unique and sensational achievement! “A young and extremely professional service crew, a performance of international par-excellence, a perfect location and

1. Who are you? My name is Jessie de Haan and I am responsible for DiningCity, your online dining guide, in Vienna. 2. What do you like about what you do? I like to create additional benefits and more reservations for good restaurants on the one hand and serve visitors of DiningCity Vienna on the other. Contact to other people with the same enterpreneurial spirit is something I enjoy in particular. 3. What don’t you like about what you do?
“If ‘location, location, location’ are every hotel´s key points then the new Ring Hotel has all three. First, barely 100 yards one way, is the impressive, Neo-Renaissance Opera House. Second, cross over the road outside, the Kärntner Ring, and walk straight through to the centre of Old Vienna. Enjoy the bright, coloured roof tiles of Stephansdom, the cathedral, whose remnants of the original 13th century church are the Giants´ Doorway and the Heathen Towers. Third, stay on this ‘Ring’ road

“At eight” restaurant recently celebrated its first birthday as the hotel was opened on November 6th, 2008. It was perfect timing that in the same week the new “Gault Millau”, Austria´s most important and really famous gourmet guide, was presented. Of course, there was hope that “at eight” restaurant would get an award, but still it felt like a surprise when the message came in that at eight was awarded with one toque. The happiness of the whole restaurant team

“On each morning of my stay I would leave my vast room to relax in the top floor spa (avoiding the all-too-well-appointed gym en-route. Instead I made a beeline for the turkish room – with cycling coloured led lights in the ceiling and essential oils in the steam or sauna rooms overlooking the Karlsplatz.” Quintessentially magazine´s visit to The Ring Hotel yields an explicit recommendation. Quintessentially is first and foremost a club, a club for those who believe that life





