HBB
Recommended

It cannot be bought. It cannot be requested. It can only be earned, one guest experience at a time.

The idea

Ratings tell you what is good. HBB Recommended tells you where we would send the people we love.

Every brand that holds it has been visited anonymously by our editors, paid for in full, and confirmed by the Editorial Board.

The rules

Seven rules. No exceptions.

I
It cannot be requested
There is no application form, no fee and no partnership that leads to the emblem. A brand is noticed. It never asks.
II
It is experienced in person
Every holder has been visited by HBB editors as paying guests, anonymously and unannounced.
III
It takes more than one visit
A single perfect evening is luck. The emblem needs at least two separate visits that reach the same level.
IV
Every detail counts
The welcome, the product, the room, the music, the farewell. The emblem rewards the whole experience, not one signature moment.
V
The board decides together
No one person can award it. The decision is made by majority vote of the HBB Editorial Board.
VI
It is renewed every year
The emblem is reviewed each season. It can be withdrawn quietly when standards slip, and it often is.
VII
Few will ever hold it
We keep it rare on purpose. If everyone wore it, it would mean nothing.

What it brings

The holders

Our team is travelling. The first HBB Recommended brands will be announced here, one by one.

"We do not give it often. That is the point."

The HBB Editorial Board