Pudlo Alsace 2008-2009

This “Petit Pudlo” is a guide to the best hotels, restaurants, cafes, and food shops in more than 200 cities, towns, and villages in the beautiful French region of Alsace.Alsace–Gilles Pudlowski’s home region–is like a fairy tale: half-timbered houses adorned with flowers, gabled roofs, and chimneys topped with stork’s nests. The famous Wine Road–a major tourist attraction–winds its way through seventy-five miles of storybook villages. Strasbourg is not only Alsace’s capital but the heart of United Europe.Pudlowski’s guide profiles hundreds of hotels and restaurants that serve the celebrated regional dishes and white wines for which this region is known, as well as its most charming cafes and typically Alsatian winstubs. In addition, specialty gourmet stores that offer the bounty of this gastronomic province are listed for each town.