Caprice (restaurant) explained

Caprice
Head-Chef:Guillaume Galliot
Food-Type:French
Dress-Code:Business casual
Rating: Michelin Guide Hong Kong Macau 2019 (11th Edition)
Street-Address:8 Finance Street, Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong, Central
City:Hong Kong
Country:China
Seating-Capacity:100
Reservations:Recommended
Coordinates:22.2863°N 114.1567°W

Caprice is a contemporary French haute cuisine restaurant in the Four Seasons Hotel, Hong Kong.[1] It was initially run by chef de cuisine Vincent Thierry, a former sous chef at Le Cinq in the Hotel George V, Paris. Guillaume Galliot is the current chef de cuisine.

Recognitions

The restaurant received two stars in the Michelin Guide's inaugural 2009 Hong Kong and Macau edition.[2] This was followed by the third star in November 2009 for the 2010 edition, which lasted for 4 years until the 2014 edition. Caprice has then been awarded 2 Michelin stars perennially for 5 years. In the 2019 edition, Caprice was awarded 3 Michelin stars again.

The restaurant was listed at no. 5 on Asia's Top 20 Restaurants of the Miele Guide in the 2011/2012 edition.[3] It was also listed at no. 11 for 2008/2009[4] and no. 10 for 2010/2011,[5] as well as no. 16 in the 2009/2010 edition.[6]

In 2010, it was listed as the 'Best French restaurant' on the Hong Kong Best Eats 2010 list compiled by CNN Travel.[7]

Serves France's famed four year aged Comté cheese.

On 29 April 2013, Caprice was named 73rd in the top 100 restaurants in The World's Best Restaurants Awards.[8]

Caprice is added to Forbes Travel Guide's list of 5 stars restaurants in January 2014.[9]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Caprice: French fine dining inspired by Paris' Le Cinq . CNN Travel . 6 December 2012 . 4 September 2009.
  2. News: Le-Min . Lim . Michelin Hong Kong Gives 3 Stars to 2 Restaurants (Update1) . Bloomberg . 2 December 2008 . 6 December 2012.
  3. Web site: Asia's Top 20 for 2011/2012 . Miele Guide . 6 December 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130127082732/http://themieleguide.com/asias-top-20/2011-2012 . 27 January 2013 .
  4. Web site: Asia's Top 20 for 2008/2009 . Miele Guide . 6 December 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121110043246/http://themieleguide.com/asias-top-20/2008-2009 . 10 November 2012 .
  5. Web site: Asia's Top 20 for 2010/2011 . Miele Guide . 6 December 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121127141252/http://themieleguide.com/asias-top-20/2010-2011 . 27 November 2012 .
  6. News: Li . Zoe . Hong Kong restaurants top the Miele Guide . 6 December 2012 . CNN Travel . 1 October 2009.
  7. News: Winners of Hong Kong Best Eats 2010: The best of the best of our selection of Hong Kong's most noteworthy dishes and restaurants . 6 December 2012 . CNN Travel . 18 October 2010.
  8. Web site: World's Best Restaurants 2013: the top 100 in full . Daily Telegraph . 29 April 2013 . 2 May 2013.
  9. Web site: Forbes Travel Guide names Five-Star properties . Nancy Trejos . USA TODAY . 22 January 2014.