A flavour magician
Getting
a Michelin star is the true dream of every famous chef in the world, as this
award for culinary arts’ reputation is like the Oscars in film industry or the
Grammys for music. And the French chef Thierry Drapeau is one of the few top
chefs in the world to be awarded 2 Michelin stars. Drapeau’s dishes are
inspired by his culinary homeland Vendée, which created his famous cooking
style called “food from Mother Earth”.
Thierry
Drapeau has nurtured his dream to become a famous chef when cooking with his
father in the kitchen as a young child. At the age of 21, he was appointed Chef
de Partie at Le Bateau Ivre, a 2 star Michelin restaurant. He went on to work
for other Michelin-starred restaurants including Courchevel and L’Escale before
returning to Vendée in 1996.
At
present, Thierry Drapeau is the owner of La Chabotterie in his hometown of
Vendée, in western France – a high-class restaurant with scrumptious dishes
served and revered by gourmets and devotees of pure French cuisine. His
restaurant got its first Michelin star in 2006, followed by the second in 2011.
Every
restaurant at this level is a different world where a chef can indulge in
creating and transforming flavours. Drapeau’s culinary world is full of
colourful dishes. He often uses vegetables with different colours to decorate
and highlight the feature of the main food. His culinary world is full of the
flavours of the Vendée region, harmonising with his memories from each journey,
including Vietnam where he visited many times and which is a destination
Drapeau has fallen in love with.
An adventure with
Chef Thierry Drapeau
In
the culinary world, the Michelin star is one of the most prestigious awards
evaluating the quality of a restaurant and the talent of a chef. Therefore,
even if people must often book a place at a Michelin-starred restaurant a year
in advance, millions of diners still dream of enjoying scrumptious food at
these honoured restaurants. In Vietnam, it is more difficult because very few
luxury cruises or high-class hotels are famous enough to invite such culinary
artists to cook at their places. For these chefs, cooking is a performance, and
the dishes they cook as well as the places they come to mark their reputation.
The
Haute Cuisine on High Seas event taking place on the Paradise Elegance on 23rd
August is not only an event for the elite willing to pay, but also a
convergence of delicate souls and top gourmets. At the event, diners will have
the chance to talk with the famous chef Thierry Drapeau, as well as enjoy
French food cooked by this talented chef.
Dubbed
the cradle of European cuisine, French cuisine attracts diners with its
sophistication in its cooking process. Known as one of the top French chefs,
Thierry Drapeau will perform his distinctive cooking techniques to create the
wonderful dishes associated with his fame. Steak tartare with fresh oyster and
avocado mousse, baked hake with bay leaves and saffron and smoked lamb ribs
with spiced lamb shoulder are some of Thierry’s most famous dishes and guests
can enjoy them on Paradise Elegance.
Haute
Cuisine on High Seas is a meeting place for France cuisine, the essence of
culinary culture of the Old World and high-class wine of the New World provided
by Trivento – the most famous and long-standing wine producer in Argentina.
Trivento’s wines have a silky yet fresh and mildly seductive aroma, often
extracted from ripe fruits and oak bark, which promises to make even the most
demanding visitors fall in love. There are no diners who could resist the soft,
sweet taste of steak tartare accompanied by the harmonious aroma of ripe
cherry, smoky coconut and blue-cherry of the famous Trivento Eolo Malbec 2013.
Strong yet fresh fruit flavours mixed with traditional bitter and soft sweet
tastes makes anyone who drinks this luxury wine enjoy its smooth and
unforgettable aftertaste.
The
harmonious combination of the delicate classic interior style and modern
decoration makes Paradise Elegance a luxurious and elegant beauty and this will
provide the perfect ambiance for the scrumptious food prepared by chef Thierry
Drapeau, which will satisfy all your senses. Thierry Drapeau’s cooking show on
Paradise Elegance is a rare opportunity for you to admire the sophistication of
Michelin-starred culinary art.
Thanks
to meeting all the international standards of modern equipment and sanitary
conditions, Paradise Elegance is able to welcome chef Thierry Drapeau to
perform, as the kitchen is the place for this culinary artist to create and
transform tastes.
When
the culinary adventure with Thierry Drapeau comes to the end, the Piano Lounge
will welcome visitors with exciting melodious music and the strong flavour of
Armagnac XO Larressingle Carate served in the shimmering smoke of the best
Cuban cigars.
By Wanderlust
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