5 best private dining places in Asia for business
Table to Farm orchestrates farm cuisine with the help of 360-degree audio and The Ocean by Oliver Bellin highlights nature in exclusive VIP rooms in Hong Kong’s Repulse Bay
A corporate dinner must meet various requirements to be memorable and effective. The food obviously needs to be great, and ideally on-trend, and the location should be private but not boring. For the added wow factor, the private dining space should have a unique edge, something that makes it stand out, such as the following five venues.
One of the newest and most innovative options that is perfect for a unique dinner is in Taipei. Creating a reimagined table-to-farm dining experience is chef Fudy Chen, founder of boutique hotel, Hotel Proverbs. In collaboration with Devialet, the award-winning innovators in sound technology, the private room has been designed to transport diners back to the farm, orchestrated through a 360-degree immersive audio experience.
From the comfort of their chairs, diners are taken on a sensory journey of the seasons, with the sounds captured at Chen’s farm over several months.
The VIP room features built-in aquarium walls that house hundreds of hovering jellyfish
“The table-to-farm experience is a reflection of time at the farm,” Chen says. “It is an expression of my interaction with the seasons, as a farmer and chef. All vegetables are grown and harvested by me; the meat and seafood sourced locally, and every course on the menu is also prepared by me. The diner is surrounded by these sounds during the entire dinner. It is a journey with me at the farm.”
Each dish is served as homage to the efforts required to bring ingredients to plates and begins with a chlorophyll-brimmed cocktail with the sounds of morning birds overhead. The exclusive evening is held monthly and seats up to 25 persons; the private dining room can be divided into three separate spaces that can be used outside of the farm experience for other bespoke dinners or product launches.
Chen adds: “Bespoke décor can be applied to the private dining rooms as the guest wishes.”
Also focusing on highlighting nature, in this case, via its ocean-side location in Repulse Bay, Hong Kong, is the award-winning Hong Kong restaurant, The Ocean by Olivier Bellin. Its three private rooms (with the largest, the VIP room, holding 12 persons), feature large windows, natural light and impressive views.