Want a Nice Dinner Out? Your Hotel Room Awaits
Restaurateurs and hoteliers are teaming up to create private dining experiences that allow guests to get out of the house, but limit their exposure to others.
In Denver, the Urban Farmer steakhouse has paired with the Oxford Hotel to offer dinners in hotel rooms that have had the beds removed and replaced with dining tables for up to six people.Credit.From the Hip Photo
By Karen Schwartz
Dec. 24, 2020
It had been six months since Nick Bayer and his wife had been on a date. But with freezing temperatures gripping Philadelphia and indoor restaurant service banned, dinner in a tent wasn’t appealing. So instead of sitting outdoors at the Walnut Street Cafe, a local restaurant, they opted for an elegant meal served in a hotel room that had been converted into a private dining space.
The finest sushi is now available to go. How does the experience travel?
Omakase comes home, because sushi bars, like all restaurants, are shifting to meet the challenges of doing business in this moment
By Devra First Globe Staff,Updated December 22, 2020, 4:42 p.m.
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A platter at Cafe Sushi.
The food before me is beautiful, a polychromatic palette of fish on rice. There is kanpachi, or amberjack, its blush gradations broken up by a dab of yuzu kosho, the Japanese citrus-chile paste. There is fresh, sweet Hokkaido scallop draped languorously over the vinegared grains, topped with orange sea urchin. Toro, cut from the fatty belly of the tuna, is the pale marbled pink of a good steak. This is sushi omakase, where the chef decides what to put before the customer; in this case, that chef is Momi Nonmiâs Chris Chung, who like many of the cityâs sushi specialists spent time at Ken Oringerâs Uni, then struck out on his own. I followed him first to sushi
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FACED WITH a winter full of indoor and outdoor dining shutdowns, chefs across the country have discovered a new place to feed customers: hotel rooms that stand empty during the pandemic.
From Brooklyn, New York, to Minneapolis, restaurants are turning suites into private dining rooms for small groups. This comes at a time when the country’s hotel occupancy rates remain at historic lows 65% are below 50% occupancy and the restaurant industry faces continued job and revenue loss.
Philadelphia’s Walnut Street Café has created individual dining experiences in the AKA University City hotel, located 23 floors above the restaurant in the same mixed-use space. The three-course dinner at what is dubbed “Walnut Suite Café” goes for $65, plus a $50 room charge to keep the space for three hours, and is available in 15 of the AKA’s one- and two-bedroom suites. The restaurant’s co-owner, Branden McRill, started the program
The combination of coronavirus restrictions and cold weather is taking a toll on the restaurant industry, but some establishments are finding new, safe ways to stay open including serving customers inside empty hotel suites.
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