Esthetics, dietetics
Treating yourself to a pause for relaxation, a few hours of Zen fulfilment followed by an organic or dietary lunch : one of the programmes to be adopted to make sure you’re on top form before going back to work.
Enjoying yourself while remaining reasonable is not such a daunting challenge ! From Mougins to Monaco, both men and women can indulge a taste for well-being while keeping an eye on calories and the bathroom scales. At Le Mas Candille, your rendez-vous bears a revealing label : “Cocooning Offer”. On the programme, one or two treatments at the Shiseido spa and a sensible lunch with semi-cooked tuna and a julienne of Thai salad or fillet of duck tossed in the pan, gnocchi in beef-stew, apricots and almonds, juice with Jamaican pepper, all concocted by star-rated chef Serge Gouloumès. A few kilometres away, on the Croisette, an institution and innovation come together in the Riviera’s galaxy of top-notch addresses. The Spa Martinez - which recently welcomed the brands Lancaster for its expertise in facial treatments and Sothys for body care - proposes an “Anniversary” programme (80 ? per person) and an “Anniversary” menu for two in its restaurant Le Relais. After a “sublime ultra-active facelift” lasting 90 minutes or a 45-minute energizing scrub with ginger (two examples among others), guests settle down in a recently revamped dining-room to savour a delicious beef tartare with vinaigrette, fillets of red mullet lightly baked in the oven, crisp garden salad with vinaigrette or caramelized calf’s liver with ginger, a thin slice of farm-raised bacon and apple purée... In brand new premises of 2,700 m2 with 46 treatment booths, HO2-Thermes Marins de Cannes is connected by a subway to the 4-star luxury hotel, the 1835 White Palm Hotel. Reynald Thivet, chef at the gastronomic restaurant Le 360° and also that of the spa, Le Bio, makes it a point of honour to use seasonal produce and prepare recipes midway between passion and reason. Better still, his menus are prepared with a herbalist-pharmacist and dishes feature lamb cutlets marinated in Boldo oil and tossed on lava stone with vegetables, or lobster simply served “à la plancha” with oil fragrant with vanilla. In Nice, the Hi Hotel now proposes a “bio brunch” every Sunday ; from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., you can benefit from a 15-minute massage, a session in the hammam and an organic buffet. Finally in Monaco, as in Cannes, you can choose between the legendary Thermes Marins de Monte-Carlo and the new Willow Stream. The first has introduced a day devoted to “Cocooning” which includes a marine treatment, “sea-peel”, Monte-Carlo massage lasting one hour, a Lancaster facial and lunch at the restaurant L’Hirondelle. The Willow Stream Spa at the Fairmont Monte-Carlo is an ode to well-being made in Monaco. In 900 m2 on the hotel’s sixth floor, this exceptional address dispenses treatments of local inspiration (Monte-Carlo Select facial, Monaco Power of the Sea detoxifying treatment, personalized Monte-Carlo Sea Escape treatments) and aromatic massages, to experience alone or as a couple. To complete these offerings, Maryan Gandon has come up with Bento Boxes in three different versions, “Earth”, “Sea” and “Garden”, in which he demonstrates the full extent of his dietary inventiveness. To be tested at once, in all good conscience !
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HO2 Thermes Marins de Cannes, 45 rue Georges Clemenceau, La Croisette, Cannes (04 92 99 50 10) and 1835 White Palm Hotel, 1 boulevard Jean Hibert, Cannes (04 92 99 73 20). Lunch : 45 €. Hi Hotel, 3 avenue des Fleurs, Nice (04 97 07 26 26). Brunch bio : 36 €. Le Martinez, 73 La Croisette, Cannes (04 92 98 73 00). Le Mas Candille, boulevard Clément Rebuffel, Mougins (04 92 28 43 43). Cocooning offer starting at 105 € in August and 155 € in September for 2 persons. Les Thermes Marins de Monte-Carlo, 2 avenue de Monte-Carlo, Monaco (00 377 98 06 69 00). "Cocooning day": 390 €. Spa Willow Stream, Fairmont Monte Carlo, 12 avenue des Spélugues, Monaco (00 377 93 50 65 00). Bento Box : 25 €.
By Cécile Olivero.
