Autumn has just begun, but the weather in Beijing will not immediately cool down, and the sweltering heat of August has left many people without appetite. These hotel restaurants offer new summer menus and afternoon teas, some of which incorporate light food concepts, some of which add visual arts elements, and some of which simply eat grilled skewers on the grass with beer to cool down the three-volt day and help you cool off and appetize.
Asparagus into the dish, desserts to reduce sugar, healthy light food so that your stomach is not burdened
Appetizing highlights: healthy light food
Chef's recommendation: Green asparagus oxtail risotto, brilliant yellow theme afternoon tea
Venue: CHAO Hotel Sanlitun Beijing
Tomato and watermelon cold soup with Parmesan ham crisps.
August is hot and hot, and the food is both healthy, light and delicious. Chao Living Room at CHAO Hotel Sanlitun Beijing has launched a new menu of 7 traditional Mediterranean-inspired dishes with innovative cooking techniques and combined with local ingredients, making it refreshing and appetizing, perfect for summer.
Green asparagus oxtail risotto.
The main ingredients in this light menu include fresh lemon, organic tomato, Dutch grain-fed veal, Mediterranean red shrimp, seasonal green asparagus, spinach and Mediterranean herbs. A cold tomato and watermelon soup with Parma ham crisps, the traditional tomato cold soup with watermelon, especially refreshing, and then blended with virgin olive oil, organic tomatoes, whole wheat bread and vanilla, with edamame, chilled watermelon and bacon, the color is bright and layered. The main food can be tried green asparagus oxtail risotto, asparagus is delicate and sweet, with crispy cashew nuts and delicious oxtail, not only cool color, but also make the risotto taste rich.
"Brilliant Yellow" themed afternoon tea.
Located on the second floor of the hotel, the Pulling Room offers a vibrant "Brilliant Yellow" themed seasonal limited afternoon tea. Among them, the salty food is based on fresh sea urchins, Boston lobster, tuna, foie gras, chicken and other rich and fragrant ingredients, combined with refreshing fruits such as lemon, mango and pineapple, and is delicious and burdenless. Desserts are also not sweet, continuing the concept of health, further reducing sugar, combined with seasonal fresh ingredients, to ensure taste and taste. For example, the lemongrass macaron is as beautiful as a flower, and the jelly is combined with cheese, sweet and sour.
Eat Shunde sauna chicken on the sauna day, And The Food of Shunde is appetizing and amazing
Appetizing highlights: Shunde new taste, grass afternoon tea
Chef's recommendation: Shunde sauna chicken, eel sushi
Venue: New MingYuan Chinese Restaurant, ITO (Kiafu Yerba Buena)
If the weather is hot and you don't want to go far, you may wish to go to Parkview Yerba Buena Meadow and enjoy different styles of food. At noon, go to the New Ming Garden Chinese Restaurant and try Executive Chef Li Xiang's Shunde Ancient French New Dish. Although the sauna day in August is sweltering, the Shunde sauna chicken is very appetizing, and it is a new interpretation of the Cantonese cuisine "steaming" technique - selecting three yellow chickens with tight meat and rich oil, taking chicken bones and adding corn, red dates, etc., boiling into a soup into the steamer, and then sliced the chicken, adding mushroom cordyceps, steaming the mulberry leaves on the spot, and finally, the chicken is full of oil aroma, mellow chicken juice dripping into the broth, especially delicious.
Shunde sauna chicken.
Lemongrass salt baked abalone.
In addition, it is recommended to enjoy the fragrant sea and mountain bone, which will bring out the taste of "shrimp paste" in Shunde cuisine to the extreme. The fat but not greasy "three-degree ribs" pork ribs, the fat of pork belly and the leanness of the ribs, wrapped in the salty and fresh shrimp sauce, the entrance is rich in layers. Another pigeon song lettuce bun, the pigeon meat is cut into small pieces, quickly stir-fried in light oil on high heat, the taste is crisp, wrapped in turquoise lettuce, ten decomposing heat; An even more appetizing dish is the lemongrass salt-baked abalone, which combines with the salt grains to absorb the unique aroma of lemongrass.
Sushi TACO afternoon tea.
On weekend afternoons, head to the bustling ITO Ito and enjoy creative sushi TACO afternoon tea with your girlfriends on the lawn. Rice with eggs, thick roasted eels with amber sauce, and crispy seaweed wrapped in it are addictive. In addition, there are a series of Japanese TACO hand rolls, such as spicy chicken steak, crispy and spicy; The minced fish is raw, oily and fatty. If you're not done, after 9 p.m., when the lights light up, enjoy the evening with a beer in the outdoor meadow and more than 30 kinds of skewers carefully prepared by the chef.
"Little Liu Duck" transforms into a cute afternoon tea, and delicious "humor" cools down the heat
Appetizing highlights: art and humor
Chef's recommendation: Lemon Honey Black Pork Char Siu, Little Liu Duck Afternoon Tea
Venue: Four Seasons Hotel Beijing CaiYi Xuan Chinese Restaurant, Lobby Bar
Lemon honey black pork char siu.
The summer experience at Four Seasons Hotel Beijing blends food and art. The new a la carte menu of Michelin Star and Black Pearl One Diamond CaiYi Xuan Chinese Restaurant showcases the art of gastronomy, such as the chef's table service "Thick Soup Bridge" is the "visible" delicacy - the fish soup is sweet and thick, and the fish meat is delicate and delicious. Star chef Li Qiang pays attention to inheriting tradition, and dares to innovate, lemon honey black porpoise char siu selection of Iberian black dolphin plum blossom meat, it is said that an adult pig on this piece of plum blossom meat is only 20 cm long, about five or six pounds of weight, made of char siu juicy and textured; The char siu sauce is exclusively secretly made by the chef and has a unique taste, and the sauce is brushed on the char siu with maltose, white sugar, etc. before being served, and the lemon sour taste can not only be degreased, but also double the sweetness.
Roasted pepper frozen fresh abalone.
In addition, shrimp seeds hometown stuffed Liao ginseng with goose paw is also the season's signature dish. After the Ginseng is cooked, the shrimp and pork are mixed with the filling, steamed together for 10 minutes, and then the goose paws and Liao ginseng are beaten with abalone juice, and finally sprinkled with hand-washed fresh shrimp seeds, Liao ginseng is soft and chewy, the abalone juice is delicious and fragrant, and the filling is elastic.
"Little Liu Duck" themed afternoon tea.
The hotel's newly launched afternoon tea is inspired by the design of the Internet celebrity WeChat emoji "Little Liu Duck", bringing a fusion of humorous art and deliciousness to the hot summer. The chef uses the varied taste of the fruit, combined with the mousse cake, to fully restore the personality characteristics of the "little Liu Duck": the explosive head of the small Liu duck made of passionflower coconut mousse cake represents "want to fry the duck"; Lemon duck duck made from lemon cheese mousse cake symbolizes "I sour duck"; The orange-headed little liu duck made from citrus grapefruit vanilla mousse cake is "shy duck"; The raspberry white chocolate mousse cake made of Fortune Little Liu Duck means "fortune duck". Afternoon tea also includes several appetizing and salty treats such as smoked ham and cheese, mini croissants, French-sealed duck and more, all perfect for summer tasting.
Enjoy afternoon tea and feel the heat, brightness and love of August
Appetizing highlights: creative taste
Chef's recommendation: summer side dishes, afternoon tea
Venue: Rosewood Beijing's rustic kitchen and Yiting Lobby Bar
Rustic chefs are new in season.
Rosewood Beijing's rustic chef's seasonal menu allows you to have a little romance and little mood to eat at home. As a Michelin-starred restaurant, rustic chefs bring rustic northern flavours and home-cooked cuisine. With an open kitchen and wood-burning oven, you can enjoy "delicious meat that has been lost and regained", and there is also a popular dish such as Peking fruit wood roast duck, roast leg of lamb and handmade bean buns.
"Summer Flowers" afternoon tea.
In addition to classic traditional dishes, you can try creative summer dishes, such as the summer side dish Northwest Pepper Ma Chicken, Hutong Stew mixed with turnips, etc., very appetizing; Taro stewed spring chicken soup warm moisturizing, warm heart and stomach; Steamed milky oysters with garlic spicy sauce, stir-fried wagyu beef grains in springfield beans, crispy fried peppercorn sprouts, yam sweet beans fried white fruit and many other main dishes are home-cooked and can make the taste buds feel fresh.
Afternoon tea incorporates elements of flowers and fruits.
Afternoon "Summer Flowers" afternoon tea is not to be missed. Separated from the garden by a window, yiting lobby bar allows you to feel the heat, brightness and love of August, and various flower elements inject life into the sweetness. For example, you can feel the taste of seasonal fruits and flowers, such as grapefruit chocolate puffs, cantaloupe orange snow puffs, champagne lychee cakes and colorful leaf finger puffs. Paired with a variety of salty snacks, there are Norwegian smoked salmon, foie gras batch, etc., more appetizing. In addition to special cocktails and refreshing drinks, you can also try The Princess Louis 242 Champagne to upgrade the poetry.
Beijing News shell financial reporter Qu Xiaoyi
Edited by Li Zheng
Proofreading Wang Xin
Image Courtesy of the interviewee