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exploring taste – Spring/Summer 2016 places – Wine places

Tosca

Hong Kong, China
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“I can’t stand people who do not take food seriously,” Oscar Wilde famously said. In Germany as in Italy, but e are on the 102 floor of Ritz way’, not only with regards to food and wine, but as The elegant wine list at Tosca offers the perfect
also in China and, more specifically, on the 103 floor of the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Hong Kong, it is all about Carlton, the tallest hotel in Hong an all-round fine dining experience.” counterpart to the food menu, exalting the taste
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the pleasures of fine dining. Charming and welcoming settings offering a chance to explore new flavours WKong. This is the home of Tosca, The ‘Italian-way’ isn’t just about old clichés such of every dish. Lavarra works closely with a team
in that special convivial atmosphere that only food, tantalisingly paired with wine, can create. an exclusive Italian restaurant led by executive as pasta, pizza and penne arrabbiata. Lavarri’s of sommeliers to discover the right balance,
chef Pino Lavarra. Tosca, like the famous opera: cuisine privileges excellent ingredients, finding its the perfect union between food and wine.
“We have an open kitchen,” Lavarra explains, “it true expression in signature dishes such as the Sea “Sometimes we end up changing a dish to better
stretches out into the restaurant like a stage, and Tiramisù: a Mazara prawn carpaccio, topped with pair it to the sapidity of the wine. If an ingredient
Words you can watch the show from your table, as if you a cereal crumble and a mussel and clam foam. “On doesn’t suit the wine we have in mind, we find an
MARIANNA MASCIANDARO were sitting in the stalls. It’s just like a theater where the outside, it looks like a tiramisù, but the heart of alternative, or temper its taste, in order to achieve
the food is the real protagonist.” Born in Puglia, this rich Italian dish is in its explosive bouquet of the perfect harmony.”
Lavarra trained on the Amalfi coast and relocated sea flavors. Excellent Italian ingredients are crucial
to Hong Kong three years ago. He is positive, “This to my cooking,” Lavarri continues, “they are the
is the real deal: here you can truly enjoy the ‘Italian very foundation of my cuisine.”

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