Two-Michelin-starred TATE Dining Room presents a refined fruit-focused lunch menu with Chef Vicky Lau’s signature French Chinese cuisine, serving now on Fridays and Saturdays only. Following a successful series of seasonal single-ingredient lunch menus that started from April 2020 focusing on Eggs, Rice, Tofu, Tea, Soy Sauce, Vegetables, Chef-patron Vicky Lau now shines the light on seasonal premium fruits from around the region. The unique chef’s 6-course tasting menu is inclusive of a wine pairing for six courses, highlighting some of the finest hand-selected Asian liqueurs and European wines created with luscious fruits.
Priced at HK$1,180+10% per guest, An Ode to Fruit features six courses of elevated interpretations of both rare and everyday fruits, bridging familiar Asian flavors with refined French techniques. Each chapter of the menu reflects a distinctive category of fruit, from the Aggregate (fruit borne from a merger of multiple ovaries such as raspberries) and Drupe (stone fruit with a “pit” center such as mangoes and plums) to the Berry (fruit with seeds and pulp from the ovary of a single flower such as strawberries), Pome (fruits with a “core” of several small seeds such as apples and quinces), Nuts (dry fruit that consists of a hard shell covering a single seed such as almonds) and Legumes (dry and fleshy several-seeded fruit such as peas and beans).
TATE Dining Room Friday & Saturday AN ODE TO FRUIT Lunch Menu
HK$1,180+10%, inclusive of wine-pairing
AMUSE BOUCHE
Chinese sausage parfait
Fermented strawberry jam, homemade Parmesan sourdough
Cherry tartlet, smoked eel
Chinese wampi sauce, kohlrabi, scallops
AGGREGATE
Japanese strawberry, marinated sweet shrimp, yogurt espuna, caviar
2019 Eric Bordelet, Poire Granit, Cider, Normandy, France
DRUPE
Green olive sauce, okra flower, steamed local grouper, crystal shrimp, French beans, olive foccacia
2018 Paul Jaboulet, Crozes-Hermitage “Mule Blanche”, Marsanne-Roussanne, Rhone Valley, France
BERRY
Yellow plum confit with razor clam, surf clam, Japanese koshihikari rice
Otoro Plum Kir
POME
Aubergine with crispy tofu, kumquat grenobloise sauce
2017 X& A Amirault, “Les Quarterons”, Cabernet Franc, Loire Valley, France
NUTS
New Zealand Te Mana lamb duet, pistachio puree, figs & roselle jam, lamb jus, green pepper sauce
2008 Chateau Lassegue, Saint-Emillion Grand Cru, Bordeaux, France
LEGUME
Trio of vanilla in ice cream, crepe suzette, citrus mango sauce, 30 year XinHui aged mandarin peel
2017 La Stoppa Azienda Vitivinicola, Ageno, Emilia-Romagna, Italy