In an exciting culinary showcase tour across Relais & Châteaux’s North American hotels, Eden Roc at Cap Cana’s executive chef has announced dates for his summer residencies.
The resort’s celebrated chef, Gianluca Re Fraschini, heads up Mediterraneo Restaurant will embark upon a six-date gastronomical journey, hosting exquisite dinners in US sister properties within the exclusive hotel collection. Beginning at the luxury country retreat Blantyre in Massachusetts, Re Fraschini will serve up authentic dishes from his home country in the hotel’s Farm & Vine restaurant on 5th June with his Mediterranean Soirée, which will include pre cocktails dinner with canapes, follow by 4 course set menu. Guests can expect dishes such as Mediterranean ventresca, sardinian fregola, bottarga and whole petit veal shank braised with Amarone wine, polenta with black truffles from Norcia, crispy asparagus within a three or four course option.
This will be followed by a two-day residency at Ocean House in Rhode Island, one of only thirteen Forbes triple five-star hotels in the world. Here, Re Fraschini will serve up a Nikkei Extravaganza on the beach on 7th June, with a selection of signature classic and Peruvian cocktails and an array of raw food and Nikkei cuisine. Dishes will include Pork jowl nigiri, asado sauce, crunchy chicharron, Sesame seed tofu, lemon grass, sea scallops, quinoa paper and Squid filled with “carabinero prawns”, edamame and chupe sauce. This will be sandwiched on either side by the Mediterranean Soirée menu on 5th and 8th of June at the property’s seaside terrace. All June events will also be supported by Eden Roc Cap Cana’s Alberto García, Sous Chef at Mediterraneo, and Franck Heimburger, Mixologist.
The final weekend in August will then see an exciting partnership between Eden Roc and Cap Cana and fellow Caribbean Relais & Châteaux hotel, Calabash Luxury Boutique Hotel in Grenada as the summer draws to a close. On 31st August and 1st September, the two outstanding hotels will join forces to host a Relais & Châteaux Caribbean Magee Homestead Culinary weekend. Guests at the world-renowned Wyoming Ranch can experience exquisite Caribbean cuisine served family-style in a stunning yurt setting with the Platte Canyon. The last day of the culinary tour will culminate in the highly-anticipated 6 hands dinner, prepared by Magee Homestead’s Chef AJ Buchanio, Calabash’s Chef Mark Banthorpe and Eden Roc Cap Cana’s Chef Gianluca Re Fraschini and will be served at the Rocky Mountain’s Magee Lodge. Both nights will also offer rum and cigar tasting for guests.
To reserve your participation in any of these events, please contact Eden Roc at Cap Cana today at 1 809 695 5555 or by e-mail: fo@edenroccapcana.com.
