Hotel Café Royal has launched its new restaurant, Alex Dilling at Hotel Café Royal, a 34-cover venue serving contemporary French cuisine.
The London hotel has teamed up with the chef, who has helmed the Michelin-starred kitchens at The Greenhouse and Hélène Darroze at The Connaught, on a sophisticated and elegant culinary offer that draws on classic French gastronomy. Menus will include a three-course lunch, a seven-course dinner menu and a seven-course chef’s special menu. Signature dishes range from bouillabaisse with marinated red mullet, to oeuf doré – a combination of smoked sturgeon, potato and aged Kaluga caviar.
“The opening of my restaurant at Hotel Café Royal is a culmination of my experiences working around the world and with some of the most exciting and talented chefs for over 20 years,” said Dilling of his new venture. “Alex Dilling At Hotel Café Royal will represent everything that I love about French cuisine and being able to work with the most incredible products meticulously sourced from artisans and producers from the United Kingdom and the rest of Europe. My dream, together with my talented team, is to not only be one of the most ambitious restaurants in the country but one where our guests feel at home and can come time and time again. There is no better location for this than in the iconic Hotel Cafe Royal.”
Guillaume Marly, Managing Director of Hotel Café Royal, added: “Oscar Wilde chose the Café Royal – and its unmatched wine selection – for his salon, while Winston Churchill favoured our steaks, stilton and champagne. Even those who differed on most things, came together here to enjoy an atmosphere and range of gourmet pleasures found nowhere else and it is clear our latest venture with Alex Dilling looks set to continue this illustrious tradition. Alex joins Albert Adria as another world-class chef we are proud to be able to showcase to Londoners and international travellers alike.”
