Silken Gran Hotel Domine Bilbao

Martín Berasategui, the only chef in Spain with a total of seven Michelin stars, recently joined the Silken Gran Hotel Domine Bilbao as executive chef for all food and beverage. Berasategui’s formidable flair—synonymous with innovation and regional specialty—illustrates the hotel’s approach to the art of living well, which draws inspiration from the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao just 100 feet away.

Close-up views of Frank Gehry’s universally loved building highlight every visit, whether from a guest-room window or the public or meeting spaces—along with views of Spain’s fifth-largest city itself, the Nervión River, and the coastal mountains rolling down to the Bay of Biscay.
The interiors showcase a museum’s worth of twentieth-century contemporary furniture, all curated and individually arranged in original, spare, and restful combinations. The hotel celebrates and promotes creative genius at every turn, not only in its accommodations, restaurants, and lounges but also in its meeting spaces—two state-of-the-art conference rooms that hold up to 380 delegates or divide into six rooms for smaller events.

Aside from the chance to see the most talked-about museum of contemporary art on the planet, incentives well worth the trip include health and beauty treatments from Cabina Wellness, leading-edge cuisine from the restaurants Le Café Metropol and the new Doma (with its terrace overlooking the museum), plus excursions to see the traditional side of Bilbao in its medieval quarter, museum of fine arts, and magnificent Basque countryside.