Hot on the heels of its new Italian restaurant BluHouse, Rosewood Hong Kong has revealed yet another refined and elegant space in the form of The Dining Room by BluHouse.
The new dining room is tucked away within the casual Italian restaurant, bar, café and deli that opened back in June. The dining room, which has now opened for dinner service from Tuesday to Sunday, strikes a thoughtful balance between tradition and innovation in a refined ambience, featuring two exclusive private dining rooms seating up to 10 guests each and an extensive wine cellar.
Native Italian Chef de Cuisine Giovanni Galeota is at the helm, serving up Italian gastronomic dishes with sustainably sourced seasonal ingredients. The chef has designed multi-course tasting menus that include seasonal highlights such as crudo di tonno, Japanese tuna crudo with an emulsion of Cetara anchovies, tomatoes and oregano cress, as well as cappelli alla Genovese, a homemade veal cappelli pasta with montoro onion sauce, truffles and provolone del Monaco cheese. There is also Branzino Mediterraneo, a pan-seared Mediterranean sea bass with potatoes, confit datterino tomatoes, olive and lemon thyme; and Baba Napoletano, a Neopolitan sponge cake with Zacapa rum, berries and vanilla mascarpone cream. A separate a la carte menu includes classics such as Il Peperone Mbuttunato with stuffed baby bell peppers, burrata cheese, raisins, pine nuts and Tasmanian black truffle, as well as Piedmont milk-fed veal tartare with artichoke, buffalo ricotta, and Pantelleria capers.
To wash it all down, Rosewood Hong Kong’s Area Director of Wine Julien Peros has curated a wine list spanning the major Italian regions, promoting wines from small boutique estates to larger and well-known operations. The award-winning team at the hotel’s bar DarkSide, meanwhile, have crafted a cocktail programme that reimagines classic Italian aperitivos for the modern drinker, taking in negronis, bellinis and a signature BluHouse Spritz. A dedicated section for vintage cocktails gives guests the chance to taste bottled Italian aperitivos with classic, frozen-in-time recipes from their heyday in the 1980s, with bottled drinks such as the 1980s Aperol Spritz, the 1980s Americano and the 1980s Campari Shakerato.
