With a debut on The World’s 50 Best Restaurants list at #87, Dubai’s Michelin-starred Ossiano restaurant, at Atlantis, The Palm resort is cementing its place as a global fine-dining destination of substance and ambition.
Helmed by chef Grégoire Berger, the restaurant offers a spectacular dining experience, with huge underwater windows offering views of an aquarium with 65,000 marine animals. It sets the tone for a restaurant that looks and feels like no other.
Chef Berger’s unique creativity is given free rein at Ossiano, exemplified by the new menu, images of which you can see below. Entitled 'Escale', it will run until winter 2023 and retraces the chef’s international travels and influences through other maritime regions and the memories and experiences that helped shape his cuisine in the early part of his culinary journey.
A series of emotional evocations represented through food awaits diners, from Japanese sweet shrimp to a unique candle dish, to a Canada-inspired dish that fills the nose with the aroma of marshmallows on a fire.
Grégoire Berger
Four-hand dinners with culinary greats
Aligned with Chef Berger’s vision to offer a pure and creative culinary experience to Dubai’s diners, is a hugely ambitious programme of four-hand dinners planned in the coming months at Ossiano.
The restaurant has already welcomed some of the world’s most important culinary talents, including chefs Esben Holmboe Bang from Oslo’s Maaemo and Eric Vildgaard of Copenhagen’s Jordnær. The Palm’s Cantonese restaurant Hakasan, which serves modern Chinese cuisine, will also join the collaboration.
At a hugely successful four-hand dinner over two nights featuring Basque culinary legend Joan Roca of El Celler de Can Roca, Berger’s cuisine, which takes inspiration from the sea and the coastal terroirs of Dubai, met Roca’s Catalan innovation featuring dishes like red prawn and citrus caviar, and langoustine with sagebrush.
Already the third in the series of collaborative dinners, the programme continues throughout the year. Check Ossiano’s website for announcements and dates for these exciting fine-dining opportunities.
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