The “Unbound Collection by Hyatt” includes a restaurant supervised by Sergio Herman, a long-time three-star Michelin Guide award winner.
The Unbound Collection has its own story, and Hotel Toranomon Hills aims to be one of the core facilities in the Toranomon Hills area, which aims to become a global business center and an “urban living room in Toranomon,” a base for business and leisure travelers to interact with each other. The company aims to become “Toranomon’s Urban Living Room,” a hub where people from all walks of life can interact for business and leisure. As Carina Kohlenger, Senior Vice President of Commercial, said at the strategy presentation, “We want to grab people’s stomachs,” the hotel is also focusing on food experiences, such as having a three-star chef supervise the food and beverage in the restaurant and hotel.
In Japan, the Fuji Speedway Hotel will open in 2022, and Hotel Toranomon Hills will be the second hotel in Japan and the first in Tokyo. The facility will feature restaurants and a cafe on the first floor, and guest rooms and lounges on the 11th through 14th floors.
The new HOTEL TORANOMON HILLS was developed as part of the Unbound Collection by Hyatt, a brand of Hyatt’s independent collection. The company describes the Unbound Collection as “a collection of hotels in the upper upscale to luxury categories that meet the demands of guests seeking a unique experience that is both sophisticated and out-of-the-box.
Restaurant created by a world-class chef who is also the face of the hotel.
Located on the first floor is Le Pristine Tokyo, a restaurant and café supervised by Sergio Herman. As a restaurant that delivers an immersive gastronomy experience, the five key elements are “food,” “fashion,” “design,” “art,” and “music.
Hotel Toranomon Hills is located in the heart of Tokyo and has become a hotel for guests seeking international gourmet cuisine and luxury,” said Guillaume Poppy, general manager of the hotel. Le Pristine Tokyo will be the main venue for this collaboration, and we are very pleased to have been able to collaborate with the hotel.
Sergio Herman was born and raised in rural Zeeland, the Netherlands, and began his career at his father’s restaurant, Oud Sluis. It was famous for its delicious mussels in a small village near the sea. Later, I took over the restaurant and was told to do what I wanted to do, so I set my sights on a fine dining restaurant and won three Michelin stars,” he recalled his own history, explaining that he has since opened restaurants throughout Europe.
When he was offered the chance to open a restaurant in Tokyo during the difficult times of the Corona Disaster, he said he thought about it for an hour and came up with an answer. I thought about it for an hour and came up with an answer. “I thought it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, so here I am standing. I would like to thank Hyatt and my team members for their support.
I had the opportunity to sample lunch and was served a course of five dishes. I was impressed by the fact that all of them were not only tasty but also extremely beautifully presented. As the concept of the restaurant states, “Served with contemporary European cuisine that fuses selected seasonal ingredients from the Zeeland region and Japan,” the dishes were very fresh and different from Japanese cuisine, using plenty of Japanese ingredients such as yellowtail, sea urchin, Japanese mussels and black radish, but seasoned in a different way.
The pasta dish “Orecchiette Zeeland Style” served as the main course was a bouillabaisse made with plenty of seafood, rich butter, and dry Italian sausage (from Hokkaido since it cannot be imported) as a secret ingredient, which gave it a rich and complex flavor that was addictive. Sergio Herman’s style of serving seafood in a variety of ways while respecting the taste of the ingredients is likely to be highly appreciated by the Japanese.
There is also a cafe with outdoor terrace seating available, and weekday lunch courses start at 3,800 yen. The restaurant offers four-course meals from 17,000 yen, and will be open only to hotel guests in December 2023.
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