Macau’s Tasting Room gains chef Fabrice Vulin and ‘100 per cent French ingredients’
After years in Hong Kong, chef Fabrice Vulin brings authentic French cuisine to Macau
In the kitchen of The Tasting Room, a French restaurant in the City of Dreams Macau – hanging prominently on the wall, beneath the two-Michelin-stars-award plaque – is a sheet of laminated white paper on which is printed: “Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.”
That’s the motto of the restaurant’s new chef de cuisine, Fabrice Vulin, 50, who is known for his classic yet contemporary French dishes. “We try to be like that every day,” Vulin says. “It’s very important to me.”
The Frenchman has three decades of experience working at – and leading – some of the best restaurants in France, Switzerland, Morocco and Hong Kong.
Vulin comes from the picturesque Hautes-Alpes region in the south east of the country, and grew up loving the fresh local produce. His upbringing made a deep impression on him and later influenced him to seek out high-quality ingredients when he began his culinary career.
“There’s no substitute for quality ingredients,” says Vulin, who is also the Asia president of the Maîtres Cuisiniers de France, the Association of the Master Chefs of France, a French culinary society founded in 1951.
