Mandarin Oriental, Tokyo’s seven restaurant and bars set to enliven historic Nihonbashi District
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Mandarin Oriental, Tokyo’s seven restaurant and bars set to enliven historic Nihonbashi District
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Category: Asia Pacific
This is a press release selected by our editorial committee and published online for free on 2005-11-23
Mandarin Oriental, Tokyo will open on 2 December in the historic Nihonbashi district with seven exciting new restaurants and bars overseen by Executive Chef Hidemasa Yamamoto. This eclectic choice is set to make Nihonbashi the new wining and dining destination. Six of the seven outlets are perched on the top two floors of the Cesar Pelli-designed, 38-storey tower — one of the tallest buildings in the Tokyo Station vicinity -- offering guests sweeping views of the metropolis including Tokyo Bay to the south and east and the Imperial Gardens to the west.
The hotel’s fine dining restaurant, Signature, on the 37th floor, serves French-inspired, imaginative cuisine featuring the freshest seasonal ingredients prepared a-la-minute in the open kitchen. With stunning views of the Tokyo skyline, this restaurant seats 80 people for lunch and dinner.
Also on the 37th floor is the Chinese restaurant, Sense, specializing in modern but authentic Cantonese cuisine and featuring a dramatic 3 tiered fireplace in its design. The restaurant seats 70 people for lunch and dinner and offers a dim sum brunch on Saturdays and Sundays that promises to be hugely popular with the area’s weekend shoppers and local residents.
Adjacent to the Chinese restaurant is Sense Tea Corner, an Asian tea room, seating up to 34 guests and offering a wide range of fragrant fine teas from around the world.
The hotel’s Mandarin Bar, is centrally located between the restaurants on the 37th floor and is a convenient and stylish gathering place for up to 37 guests for pre-dinner drinks or live music after dinner.
Also on the 37th floor is a unique wine cellar-in-the-sky, offering more than 3,000 bottles of French and other world wines and a unique listing of organic and bio-dynamic labels.
The hotel’s all-day dining venue, K’shiki, on the top floor offers modern fare inspired by Continental and Pan-Asian cuisines. An eclectic oven is used to warm fresh breakfast pastries, and to create Asian-inspired pizzas at lunchtime, while at dinner fragrant specialty breads are served with signature spreads. Casual yet elegant, this restaurant seats 110 people for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
The hotel’s lounge is also located on the 38th floor. Oriental Lounge promises to be a central meeting place offering breathtaking sceneries of the city. Siphon-brewed coffees, a cigar corner and Afternoon Tea served in legendary Mandarin Oriental style underscores the relaxed atmosphere of the lounge, while theatrical presentations of bite-sized delicacies at the innovative dining bar, Tapas intrigue both the imagination and palate of discerning connoisseurs. Experimental molecular cuisine may be enjoyed here only for 12 people per night with reservations. The lounge seats 93 people.
The stylish atrium restaurant, Ventaglio located on the hotel tower’s second floor is where traditional cuisine of Northern Italy is reinterpreted with contemporary sauces and fillings; freshly made pastas, fresh herbs and light oils prevail. Lunch offerings include an antipasti buffet; and a decadent afternoon chocolate buffet. The restaurant seats 140 guests for lunch and dinner.
In addition to all of these delights, is the Mandarin Oriental Gourmet Shop, a take-away chocolaterie and patisserie that is located on the ground floor of the impressive Nihonbashi Mitsui Tower and presents tastefully packaged gifts including hand-dipped chocolates, cakes, pastries, breads and premium teas in traditional Mandarin Oriental style.
About Mandarin Oriental, Tokyo
With a superb location on the city’s prestigious financial district, Mandarin Oriental, Tokyo will bring contemporary luxury to the historical and cultural centre of Tokyo commerce when it opens on 2 December 2005. True to its surroundings, the first Mandarin Oriental hotel in Japan dynamically blends the best of architecture old and new, with spacious guestrooms and innovative restaurants and spa facilities situated on the top nine floors of the soaring new Nihonbashi Mitsui Tower and stately banquet and conference facilities residing within the adjacent Mitsui Main Building, a cultural heritage property.
About Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group
Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group is the award-winning owner and operator of some of the world’s most prestigious hotels and resorts, currently operating 22 luxury hotels with a further eight under development in Tokyo (2005), Prague and Riviera Maya, Mexico (2006), Boston and Grand Cayman (2007), Chicago (2008), Macau and Las Vegas (2009). In total, Mandarin Oriental now operates, or has under development, more than 8,000 rooms in 17 countries with 13 hotels in Asia, 12 in the Americas and five in Europe.
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