Relais & Châteaux Adds 3 New Restaurants in New York, Los Angeles and Cape Town to Its Global Collection of Exquisite Hotels and Restaurants
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PUBLISHED JULY 2023 • 5 min read
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Relais & Châteaux just added 8 new members to their global association, including three restaurants in New York and Los Angeles, United States, and Cape Town, South Africa.
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SAGA (New York, United States)
63 floors atop 70 Pine Street, a landmark Art Deco skyscraper in The Big Apple’s Financial District, SAGA is a New York restaurant that will dazzle your five senses.
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This restaurant—spread over several floors with a 360° panoramic view, three large outdoor terraces, and a private solarium adjacent to the kitchen—is unlike any other dining space in New York, be it outside or inside! The stylishly decorated rooms vary in size, revealing new wonders around each corner as you explore. The main dining room awaits you on the 63rd floor, with vast windowscapes offering a wraparound view of the skyline bristling with high-rise buildings. SAGA’s cuisine is unquestionably cosmopolitan, boasts two stars in the 2022 Michelin Guide, and is impeccably suited to this sleek, chic, and welcoming urban world: Some dishes are served center-table, meant for family-style sharing.
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Chef James Kent’s creative, seven-course gourmet menu is inspired by his childhood memories and world travels and, for those with a busy day ahead, is available during the week in a four-course “Short Story” version. Two floors are reserved for private events. The warm peach and emerald tones of the velvet, the green marble of the tables, and the sculpted stone details heighten the ambiance of a comforting cocoon, ideal for small, intimate dinners and tête-à-têtes. One floor up, on level 64, Overstory welcomes those who appreciate inventive elixirs. In this cocktail bar that, in 2023, ranked 34th on the list of The World’s 50 Best Bars, guests can write a story all their own.
Providence (Los Angeles, United States)
Established in 2005 on the famed Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles, the restaurant known as Providence has become one of the nation’s most sought-after sustainably led dining experiences.
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With two stars in the 2023 Michelin Guide, it invites you to take part in a multi-sensory seafood-forward dining experience, an unforgettable dive into an exquisite world of refined flavors. The tasting menus by American chef Michael Cimarusti are symphonies of sensitivity and sophisticated technique composed with the freshest, most sustainable seafood possible, entirely wild-caught along the California coasts and in international waters. Sample the Santa Barbara vermilion rockfish served with morel, sorrel, and miner’s lettuce, or the Alaskan halibut with clam bouillon and grilled fava bean. The selection of additional items is equally tempting, with sea urchins, oysters, and local shrimp.
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Each ingredient is treated with uncompromising respect to bring out the best of its flavors. Naturally, the establishment also serves a vegetarian tasting menu by request, taking into account the ultimate comfort and enjoyment for the most discerning of diners. Lastly, the restaurant’s striking new décor in Pacific tidal blue-greens and warm sand tones invites guests to dine in a truly immersive experience that feels serene and intentional with subtle nods to where the ocean meets the horizon and sky, distilling the complex simplicity of Cimarusti’s cooking into the design.
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Fyn Restaurant (Cape Town, South Africa)
Fyn has been headlining the African gourmet dining scene since it opened in 2018 on the top floor of a restored 19th-century silk factory in Cape Town’s historic heart.
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The restaurant’s name is a tribute to the Cape Floral Kingdom’s endemic plant-rich fynbos biome, and a nod to the Afrikaans word fyn, meaning “fine.” It has certainly been a good omen, given that Fyn has made the World’s 50 Best Restaurants list for three consecutive years, and was also voted Africa’s Best Restaurant and presented with the Flor de Caña Sustainable Restaurant Award in 2023. The global recognition is a source of pride for Fyn’s visionary founder, Peter Tempelhoff, a member of the Relais & Châteaux World Culinary Council. In partnership with his culinary director, chef Ashley Moss, and service and beverage director, Jennifer Hugé, Templehoff balances the wildness of Africa with Japanese refinement in creative, kaiseki-style menus that champion sustainably sourced, in-season ingredients with a hyper-local emphasis on provenance and terroir.
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