HotelChatter - Tag: Hotel Chefs

New York : Ma Peche Restaurant Opens At NY's Chambers Hotel, And We're So There

JetSetCD — 2009-11-12T14:20:09-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6193/MomofukuCookie.jpg" class="top"> We've made no secret of the fact that one of our favorite <a href="">Digital Nomad Lobbies</a> is the mezzanine at NYC's <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Chambers/ian/194680">Chambers Hotel</a>, and three days ago while working in our usual nook, we noticed a suspicious lunch menu sitting on the sidetable. But how could we order this lunch when there was no wait staff? Ah hawe should have known that they were being trained at that very moment for the opening of the hotel's new restaurant, Ma Peche. Ma Peche is the latest spot from David Chang of the foodie favorite Momofuku megaforce that counts three restaurants in the Lower East Side. This being his first highly anticipated restaurant in Midtown, and helloit's in

New York: Ain't No Party Like A Hot Pot Party At NYC's Maritime Hotel

JetSetCD — 2009-09-23T10:55:10-05:00

We love hotels, and we love food. Thank heavens that a good hotel usually comes with a great restaurant, and if we're lucky, a talented chef to boot. This is the case at The Maritime Hotel in New York, which dilutes its mild nautical theme with a lower-level Japanese restaurant, Matsuri.

For the restaurant's 6th anniversary, the menu will include traditional hot pot favorites of chef Tadashi Ono (who also made Matsuri's ceramic crockery by hand), and last night the celebration kicked off with a party to reveal the restaurant's new cookbook: "Japanese Hot Pots: Comforting One-Pot Meals," authored by Ono and Harris Salat.

Kirkland: Say What? The Heathman Hotel Has a Root Cellar

globetrotting gourmet — 2009-07-29T17:43:19-05:00

As a hardcore foodie and big believer in the local/sustainable/seasonal movement, we’re fascinated with Trellis restaurant's Executive Chef Brian Scheehser’s root cellar. Housed underground The Heathman Hotel, the famed farm-to-table chef stashes the likes of onions, potatoes, beets, carrots, fresh crushed tomatoes and canned peaches from his 5-acre organic garden in Redmond in the 40-degree subterranean storage facility.

Trellis has become a bit of a fixture within the Kirkland community. The Heathman Hotel is a popular boutique hotel for business travelers as Microsoft visitors are within the freeway-free proximity of the tech mecca.

London: Get a Taste of Chiva-Som This Week at Claridge's London

juliab — 2009-04-15T15:04:50-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/21888/clarid.jpg" class="top"> With the good ol' economy the way it is right now (and those <a href=http://www.jaunted.com/story/2009/4/13/2423/71775/travel/Bangkok+Protests+Continue%2C+Thailand+Warnings+Start+Again>problems</a> in Bangkok, come to think of it), we can't really get to <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Thailand%20Hotels">Thailand</a> at the moment. Let alone to a posh place in Thailand like the internationally-known wellness resort <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Chiva+Som+Int+Health+Resort/ian/120665">Chiva-Som</a>. But all is not lost, because (a bit of) Chiva-Som has made its way to London. Well, the resort's Executive Chef Paisarn Cheewinsiriwat has made his way to London, to be precise. To combat Easter's over-indulgence, <a href=http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Claridge%27S/ian/172844>Claridge's</a> has flown the chef over to cook up some "gourmet spa cuisine" (i.e., low on the bad stuff like calories and fat, and high on super-fresh ingredients). Chef Paisarn's three-course menu is

Los Angeles: A Taste of France in Los Angeles

abigailmschilling — 2008-10-24T15:42:00-05:00

If you're craving French food and France is just a little too far right now, hop over to the Hotel Bel-Air on November 10, 11, or 12. Chef Yannick Alleno from Le Meurice in Paris will be serving up truly unique and unforgettable dinners. This chef exchange is courtesy of the Dorchester Collection, a collection of five-star hotels that Bel-Air just recently joined in July.