Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Guests approach the dining room of Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester via the hotel’s Promenade—it’s like walking through a fanciful, rarefied world, the likes of which you’d only find in such a world-famous, luxury hotel. There are striking vases of fresh flowers scenting the air with rose and tuberose; Liberace’s mirrored piano is gleaming in the centre of the space, while the soundtrack is of the tinkling glass of cocktails being stirred at the Artists’ Bar. The elegant dining room at Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester.
(Credit: Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester) Inside the restaurant, all is quiet. It’s probably the most pared-back space in the whole of the hotel with its starched white tablecloths, curvy leather banquettes and side lamps giving the space a kind of super-yacht sheen. In the centre of the room, a private dining space, called the Table Lumiere, is shielded from others with a shimmering beaded curtains, that falls like rainfall.
It’s all plush carpet, light wood, polished metals—in short, the height of ‘good taste’. This is an intimate place for special occasions, where life moments are marked and memorable meals are tasted. Yet, there’s no sign of overblown excitement or loud celebrations, even despite the fact that the world-renowned chef, Alain Ducasse, has just announced his continued partnership with The Dorchester in London for a further five years.
The incomparable chef, Alain Ducass.