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An Iron Chef Signs On To Revel In Atlantic City
Still planning for a May 2012 opening, Atlantic City's newest hotel, Revel, will be recruiting the services of Iron Chef winner Jose Garces for several of its dining options. Having successfully launched three restaurants inside the recently-opened JDV's The Saguaro (including a coffee take-out counter), Garces is introducing another trilogy into the 47-floor, ocean-facing tower.
A tapas bar (Amada), a whiskey bar (Village Whiskey), and a margarita bar with Mexican street food (Distrito Cantina) will help jazz up the AC scene this spring, along with the hotel's dozen other restaurants, three nightclubs, shopping mall, spa, two theaters and (of course) casino.
Garces, who has been selected as the hotel's "gastronomic cornerstone," lives on a 40-acre Pennsylvania farm with his wife and kids in Bucks County—just a quick two-hour drive from the hotel. Maybe if we're lucky, he'll be trucking over some home-grown cabbage and tomatoes for those Distrito Cantina tacos!
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Somewhere Between Japan and California, You'll Find Amasia
Japanese-born chef Alan Wong has spent years building a legacy as one of the most talented and innovative chefs in Hawaii. His Oahu restaurant, Alan Wong's, was ranked twice by Gourmet magazine as one of the top ten best restaurants in America. Now, the master will be turning his attention to the Grand Wailea Resort for a new "Asian street food"-inspired upscale restaurant—to be named, awesomely, Amasia.
The name refers to the possible future merging of the Asian and North American continents. Which is actually fitting for Wong's style, which likes to borrow a little from both cultures. Wong recently entered into an agreement with Grand Wailea to take over their Japanese kaiseki restaurant Kincha, which closed in 2009. Currently undergoing a $2 million renovation, and with Wong's team set to arrive in January to start experimenting in the kitchen, the restaurant will re-open as Amasia in February.
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It's Hard Work Being An Omni Executive Chef
Where: United States
It was hardly punishment for the 45 executive chefs who got to enjoy a ten-day tour last month throughout French vineyards, farms and restaurants. Their parent company, Omni Hotels had been so pleased with the success of 2008's similar "Flavors of France" campaign—which followed a separate voyage to Spain in 2006—that they wanted to give their chefs a refresher on the basics. You know: champagne making, grape harvests in Bordeaux, mustard preparation, and Palais des Thés tea training.
The usual stuff.
But it is the guests of Omni who will be the ones benefitting from the chefs' newfound inspiration. For the seventh installment of 'Flavors of France,' new menus are already being rolled out at the various hotels, featuring French cuisine and fine wines—so you can reap the rewards of their culinary escapade (and not have to worry about trekking through caves or trudging through vineyards). Ready for some Poêlées de Saint-Jacques à la Provencale? We thought so.
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InterContinental Throws Down A Cookbook App For Your iPad
In other hotel food news today, InterContinental Hotels announced that they will be issuing an e-cookbook named Flavors At Your Fingertips. Hm, kinda makes us think of an IV drip. But nevermind, this all fits in with IHG's reputation for being among the first hotel company to really integrate the wondrous tablet into their amenities.
Available to download for free, the unique app compiles 32 classic recipes—taken from 24 IHG properties around the world—that users can browse using a number of cool, easy-to-follow parameters. Want to search by recipe name? Easy enough. Want to spin the globe to pick your cuisine type? Spin away! Feeling undecided and want to "be inspired" with a surprise recipe? IHG's got you covered there, too.
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We Ate Risotto And Talked Hotels With Curtis Stone
Stone enjoying some Risotto Milanese, catered by Cafe B inside the Hotel Indigo Chelsea
In another life, we might have rolled our eyes at the thought of interviewing some pretty boy celebrity chef who makes a living cooking (and eating) gourmet food on national TV. But in the case of Curtis Stone, who showed up at the Hotel Indigo Chelsea on Friday to promote a local food campaign ("Locals Know Best"), we sat up to listen.
During our chat, the well-traveled chef name-drops a few of his fave NYC spots, professes his love for English Afternoon Tea, and explains why The Standard requires a certain "mood."
How did this partnership with Indigo come about?
I'm a huge advocate of local food, local produce, local chefs, local restaurants, so we decided to do a "Locals Know Best" campaign, which is just an extension of sourcing local ingredients. But it's also trying to bring in a bunch of local knowledge to each of the [Indigo] properties. I think the most important thing when you travel is to get a local flavor when you're there. Otherwise, there's no point in traveling, for both business and pleasure.
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Breaking Away from Escoffier: Shangri-La Paris Adds Shang Palace to Its Restaurant Roster
Craving Chinese food in the City of Light? Tough luck. Paris, a city whose food landscape is dominated by Michelin-starred giants and scads of butter, butter, butter, has a slim selection "World" options for those who grow weary of eating confit something-or-other meal after meal. Yet, Paris is making an effort to break away from its Escoffier-centric roots, with fusion restaurants and diverse foreign cuisines garnering some attention as of late.
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Miami Hotel Restaurant Mambo: Raleigh & W SoBe Get New Chefs
Solea, as the tabloids say, in happier times.
Miami Spice is still offering its cheap eats through the end of September, but the latest hotel news in South Beach has us thinking ahead to next year's Spice--when two new restaurants will be in place at two of the most high-profile properties in town.
We were waxing lyrical about The Royal at The Raleighjust last week--and it's only been there since last November--but clearly our love is not enough to prevent change. Miami's most famous chef, Michael Schwartz of Michael's Genuine, is moving into the Raleigh, probably by the end of the year.
That's huge. But it's not the only restaurant revolving door spinning--the Miami New Times blog Short Order also informs us that Solea is out at W South Beach, and NYC-cool eatery The Dutch is taking its place. Well, isn't this a lot to chew on? (Ha!)
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The Chef Makes House Calls at The Regent Palms in Turks & Caicos
As you can see from our video tour, the one-bedroom suites at the The Regent Palms Turks & Caicos have full kitchens. Really pretty ones that we wish we had back home.
We didn't cook while here, of course, although we gave that Nespresso machine a good little workout. We imagine some families might cook in these rooms--the hotel even has a gourmet market near the lobby where you can buy easy-peasy ingredients to stock in that huge fridge.
But if you find yourself longing to get use out of that stove and are just too darn lazy to cook yourself, that's OK--the Regent Palms' chef will come to your suite and whip up a meal for you.
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Pickle Me This: We Try Dinner at Dream SoBe's Tudor House
Now that Dream South Beach is officially open--fire-eaters and Nicky Hilton at the party officially open--we decided to stop in at the hotel's restaurant, Tudor House, to sample Geoffrey Zakarian's menu.
The first thing we devoured, though, was the decor. We're big fans of the Art Deco period--which is one reason we also love the look of Zakarian's Lambs Club at The Chatwal in New York. Tudor House is less clubby and masculine than Lambs, but the clean lines and airy feel suit Miami Beach. Being hotel nerds, we also love that the Tudor House bar utilizes the former hotel's check-in desk area. (Where they make a mean Moscow Mule and a delightful vodka cocktail called Peggy's Punch.)
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Azul Rules: Three Things We Loved About Mandarin Oriental Miami's Resto
With Miami Spice (a two-month long 'Restaurant Week') on the horizon in Miami, we have food on the brain. To prepare for the food-fest, we've been scoping out some of the city's best hotel restaurants to bring you the inside word on where to book your Spice tables. Today: Azul at the Mandarin Oriental Miami.
One of Miami's poshest, the restaurant opened in 2000 but has a breath of fresh air in the form of Chef Joel Huff, who joins the hotel after stints at Mandarins in San Francisco and New York, and at the Four Seasons Biltmore in Santa Barbara.
Despite serving up seriously high-class dishes like Eggs & Caviar and Sake Marinated Black Cod, Chef Huff is totally down to earth, and happy to talk to guests about his recent move to Miami and his love for surfing. OK, so we were at Azul for a media event, but the restaurant has an open kitchen so you'll always be able to spot him and, really, the guy loves to chat. Trust us, this is one time you won't have to worry about awkward small talk when the chef does his rounds of tables towards the end of the night.
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L'Ermitage Beverly Hills: Still Not a Viceroy But is Getting a New Restaurant
Now that L'Ermitage Beverly Hills has become a Viceroy spot sans the actual Viceroy name, the hotel is revamping its food offerings and just named Joseph Elevado as its new executive chef.
Elevado, a Staten Island native who cooks up Asian-inspired eats, will add new flavor to the hotel's eating options, including the historic lounge to in-room dining and poolside fare. But the big change will be the a new signature restaurant that's set to debut in the fall.
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The Soho Grand Is Knee-Deep In Green Beans
Two months ago, Chef Richard Farnabe, the former personal chef to designer-turned-hotelier Tommy Hilfiger, planted a garden on the roof of the Soho Grand Hotel. No stranger to the world of horticulture (he also keeps a garden at his home in the Hamptons), Farnabe is excited about the fact that, at seventeen stories up, this garden has remained (and hopefully will) absolutely deer-, bird-, and bug-free. And, just like a deer out of the forest, the whole locavore-inspired project seems to have come out of nowhere!
"We didn't have any idea about how to do a rooftop garden. At first, we wanted to do a garden in the parking lot, so we asked the owners about it, and they suggested we do it on the roof because there was more space. This garden was improvised, we didn't research anything. We just started doing it."
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