When the world’s most Michelin-starred feminine chef opens a brand new restaurant, everybody sits up and takes discover. And the opening of Cristal Room, chef Anne-Sophie Pic’s debut in Hong Kong, is actually turning heads (she additionally has eating places from Paris to London, Megève, Dubai and past).
Cristal Room by chef Anne-Sophie Pic in Hong Kong
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Cristal Room is the fifth restaurant to hitch Forty-5, Hong Kong’s latest eating vacation spot inside Landmark’s Gloucester Tower. The restaurant, a part of the native hospitality group Main Nation, bears all of Pic’s successful hallmarks, boosted additional by its collaboration with the historic French effective crystal maison Baccarat.
In opposition to sweeping Forty fourth-floor views over Victoria Harbour, the interiors by Paris-based Gilles & Boissier are refreshingly female, that includes a sleek marble-fluted curvilinear banquette that snakes by the centre of the room, organically formed furnishings, and plush carpets underfoot in a palette of impartial mushroom tones and dusty pinks.
(Picture credit score: Courtesy of Cristal Room by Anne-Sophie Pic)
The decor is embellished with ceiling mirrors and, in fact, Baccarat chandeliers, reminiscent of Philippe Starck’s ‘Zénith Flou, Je te Vois Flou’ within the personal salon. In the meantime, objects like Baccarat’s signature ‘Octagon’ vases nod to the pendants of the model’s chandeliers, whereas glassware contains items from the exquisitely bevelled ‘Harcourt 1841’ assortment, the oldest within the archive.
The inside units a chic tone is about for Pic’s meals, an revolutionary tackle French gastronomy, which emerges from a kitchen that sits like a stage throughout the eating room and from which a brigade of cooks quietly produces expertly executed dishes in a sleek ballet-like efficiency.
(Picture credit score: Courtesy of Cristal Room by Anne-Sophie Pic)
(Picture credit score: Courtesy of Cristal Room by Anne-Sophie Pic)
The succinct tasting menus are deeply French of their roots however are flecked with Asian influences and substances, reflecting Pic’s love of the area, specifically, Hong Kong, the place she studied three a long time in the past.
Count on revolutionary dishes – guided by her philosophy of impregnation, the place flavours and aromas intertwine by methods like smoking, steeping, marination and infusion – like her signature Les Berlingots ASP, the place sobacha (buckwheat tea) has been used to make pasta within the form of the traditional French exhausting sweet (berlingots), crammed with liquid 24-month-aged comté cheese and served with a mushroom consommé infused with tonka beans.
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Chocolate souffle black garlic
(Picture credit score: Courtesy of Cristal Room by Anne-Sophie Pic)
The idea of impregnation can also be underscored by the drinks pairings, courtesy of chief govt sommelier Paz Levinson, who has additionally created an alcohol-free menu that features concoctions such because the refreshing Clear Tonka, made with milk-washed oolong tea and tonka beans, which pairs excellently with the seabass caviar.
All this comes completely collectively to showcase Pic’s brilliance at a restaurant set to develop into a star in Hong Kong’s culinary scene.
(Picture credit score: Courtesy of Cristal Room by Anne-Sophie Pic)
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