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Eagle’s Danube Express,
J.R. Patterson discovers
MICHELIN-worthy dining,
panoramic luxury, and
A MOVEABLE F eastAboard the Golden
cultural immersion—
all while crossing Europe
at a pace that lets
beauty linger.
of the World” lists that appear every
Among the various “Great Restaurants
year, none of them, so far as I know,
are on rails. This seems like a great
oversight, as preparing any meal, let alone
one worthy of MICHELIN recognition, on a
rocking, leaning, turning, and braking train
car is surely one of the greatest feats in gas-
tronomy aerobatics.
I learned this first-hand on the Danube
Express, the flagship of Golden Eagle Luxury
Trains, on its new itinerary from Paris to
Istanbul. Somewhere in the Austrian Tyrol,
guests were invited to the dining car to
experience a pastry decorating course, over-
seen by Golden Eagle’s resident pastry chef,
Rebeka Krupa (who in 2022 placed 2nd in
her native Hungary’s popular baking compe-
tition, Mestercukrász).