Multi-award winning Chef Benjamin Whatt launches new culinary menu and concept as own signature defining cuisine at Quest restaurant, Abu Dhabi
Chef Benjamin Whatt,
Chef de Cuisine at Quest restaurant, Jumeirah at Etihad Towers, Abu Dhabi, has
launched an entirely new menu and culinary concept under the title of
“Inspirational Asian Fine Dining”. The multi-award winning chef and recipient
of numerous awards and accolades including “Chef of the Year, Abu Dhabi, 2012”
by What’s On, developed the cuisine concept to both engage and excite cuisine
connoisseurs and food lovers alike with modern interpretations of Asian
classics that gastronomically play with both one’s taste buds and minds through
culinary illusions and new epicurean experiences. The launch of the new cuisine
genre is part of Chef Benjamin asserting himself as a culinary visionary within
the UAE, Middle East and beyond, as a new breed of chef whose cuisine is
self-assured, at times comical, thoughtful and above all, passionate, generous
and sensory.
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| Chef Benjamin Whatt, Chef de Cuisine, Quest, Jumeirah at Etihad Towers |
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| Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Quest, Jumeirah at Etihad Towers |
Says
Chef Benjamin: “My passion and goal is to provide true dining experiences where
people feel just as they might at the end of a great play or film, concert or
exhibition. My dishes are a composition of drama, intrigue, comedy and fantasy
on each plate, with plot and sub-plot. I want guests through my cuisine to
remember what it was like to see things again through the eyes of a child, where
imagination and interpretation sparkle and shine, innocence is rekindled and
frolics in their minds and on their taste buds. Through my cuisine I want
people to reminisce, regain a youthful outlook and feel alive.”
While
each dish on the menu clearly bears Chef Benjamin’s unique signature a couple
of notable highlights include; “California Maki”, based on the Japanese
international favourite, Chef Benjamin presents the dish as an edible wafer
thin card depicting am image of a maki roll. The dish doesn’t even appear as
“food”, but bite into it, and all the traditional flavours of a California Maki
are there, confusing one’s eyes and mind, but not the tastebuds. Another
notable dish is “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”, a dessert inspired by the movie of
the same name, providing an illusion of being served a sachet of muesli cereal,
egg and ham croissant and a cup of café latte.
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| California Maki, Quest, Jumeirah at Etihad Towers |
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| Aubergine: , Jumeirah at Etihad Towers |
Vegetarian
options feature heavily within the new menu and as part of the new
“Inspirational Asian Fine Dining”, not necessarily to fully appease vegetarian
foodies but because of the more difficult challenge it presented. Says Chef
Benjamin: “To come up with a vegetarian dish that can create the same sensation
and level of satisfaction for both a meat eater and vegetarian is a serious
challenge that immediately attracted me. Choosing the obviously tougher option
is in my nature.” Representative of one of the vegetarian dishes is
“Aubergine”, which provides the illusion of being served charcoal over a bed of
hot ash, complete with its own heat flavours.
For further
information, enquiries and bookings for dining at Jumeirah at Etihad Towers
contact:Tel: +971 2 811 5666
Fax: +971 2 811 5588
E-mail: JADrestaurants@jumeirah.com
Website: www.jumeirah.com
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