TO mark the festive season, Park Chinois, the Mayfair restaurant that celebrates the French love affair with the mystical Orient and is a homage to 1930s glamorous Shanghai, have created set dinner and lunch festive menus, as well as a six gorgeous Christmas cocktails.
Interior of Club Chinois
Park Chinois’ superb culinary team have created three festive dining menus and a lunch menu featuring luxurious authentic Chinese cuisine. Main course highlights include a special selection of dim sum, Alaskan king crab, 5 year Qing Hu rice wine and homemade rice noodles, Duck de Chine with pancakes, vegetables and hoisin sauce and Chilean Wagyu beef, choi sum and park choi with Le Pettit Chongquing sauce.
The desserts are especially deluxe. They include warm apple chausson with light calvados and vanilla espuma, pain d’épice and poached pear with fresh ginger, tahiti vanilla ice cream and orange sauce, and chocolate mousse with a fondant heart of tonic beans, arcing noir 85%, blackberry jelly and cocoa biscuit.
Chilean Wagyu beef, choi sum and park choi with Le Pettit Chongquing sauce
Selection of festive dishes
Australian Kingfish, sesame, soya and chilli oil
Park Chinois’ expert bar staff have created six special festive cocktails themed around classic fairytales. They are titled Jesters Rush, Tangles Locks, Forbidden Apple, Golden Belle, Glass Slipper and Mermaid’s Tales. They are all made using warming, rich spirits such as rum, cognac and rye whiskey, and seasonal, spiced ingredients such as honey vermouth, chestnuts and smoked citrus fruits.
The Forbidden Apple cocktail includes smooth rye whisky fused with 20 years old aged port, apple and honey vermouth, elevated by aromatic bitters. The Golden Belle cocktail is a gin-based cocktail with a kaleidoscope of colours as a result of the inclusion of butterfly pea tea — it has a citrus and fruity finish.
Forbidden Apple Cocktail
Golden Belle Cocktail
by Allie Nawrat
The prices for the festive dining menus range from £88 to £300 per person. The lunch menu is priced at £60 includes a glass of sparkling wine
The cocktails are priced between £30 and £35
Park Chinois, N°17 Berkeley Street, Mayfair, London, W1J 8EA