The Dining Room Takeover with Chef Julien Royer
After successfully welcoming its first guest chefs in September, The Dining Room at Raffles Jakarta continued the excitement on 5 October with a thrilling dinner event crafted by three-Michelin star chef-patron Julien Royer of Odette Singapore, currently ranked number one in Asia's Best 50 Restaurants.
Jakarta's gourmands were delighted to have the opportunity to experience this highly renowned chef's cuisine in the comfort of Raffles Jakarta's sophisticated The Dining Room, which has a fully integrated show kitchen that allowed guests the opportunity to interact with the chef himself in the kitchen for a unique interactive dining experience.
Chef Royer's modern French cuisine is guided by his lifelong respect for seasonality, terroir and artisanal produce and on that special evening in Jakarta, he created a sixcourse set dinner menu for an unforgettable dining experience at The Dining Room.
Guests were intrigued by amuse bouche like ama ebi taco, le puy lentil falafel and uni pain perdu, which heightened the already high expectations. The first dish of the greatly anticipated dinner was a cold appetiser of king crab with apple, celery, wasabi sorbet and green apple jelly, which was followed by treats such as Hokkaido scallop with kabu, smoked garlic and sauce perlée; toothfish esprit Thai with trumbetta zucchini, sakura ebi and kaffir lime; Kobe beef fillet with miso caramel, corn and Maitake. The dessert saw a thick slice of mango confidently matched with coconut ice cream and a tiny mango tart with kaffir lime-dusted mango pearls to end a perfect meal.
The Dining Room