The 68-year-old fine dining institution goes big this October as it transports guests back to its gilded heyday with food, wine, music and a history education
Put the lighter away for one moment—before you start burning your boatloads of cash, first consider the Gastronomic Memories one-night-only dinner at The Peninsula's longstanding European restaurant, Gaddi's, due to take place on October 7. Held in recognition of the fine dining institution's remarkable 68-year run, the dinner is all about numbers, especially the whopping HK$10,888 price tag per head, which, with a 10 percent service charge, puts it just HK$23 shy of the HK$12,000 mark.
For all that moolah, you'll get six courses by the venerable chef de cuisine Albin Gobil that cast a nostalgic eye back at the refined French fare served at Gaddi's back in the 1970s; each dish will be paired with a rare bottle from the same decade, as selected by sommelier Felix Law.
Among the gilded dishes are Brittany turbot Argenteuil roasted in a fig leaf with matelote sauce, whose smokiness makes for a natural pairing with the 1975 Château Mouton Rothschild Pauillac; and the Limousin veal Prince Orloff and gratin Dauphinoise with white Piedmont truffle, carved tableside with a glass of full-bodied 1970 Château L'Évangile Pomerol (Double Magnum).
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