The FINANCIAL — Parnas Restaurant has launched a Bastille Day Menu. It includes special French dishes which you won’t be able to find anywhere else.
The special menu was made by French Chef de Cuisine Sebastian Klinhoff. “I choose French meals in accordance with wines which are exclusive offers in Georgia,” Klinhoff told The FINANCIAL.
Bastille Day remains one of the most important events in the history of France. The Bastille was a prison in Paris best known today because of the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789, which along with the Tennis Court Oath is considered the beginning of the French Revolution. The French national holiday, celebrated annually on 14 July is officially the Fête Nationale, and officially commemorates the Fête de la Fédération, but is commonly known in English as Bastille Day.
Klinhoff preferred not to disclose the items of the Bastille Day Menu and is leaving it a surprise for the guests.
“Some of the ingredients are from France, but most of them were bought in Georgia. For example, the mushroom in the Salade Campagnarde, which consists of nut, cheese, sausage and mushroom, was from Kakheti,” claimed the Chef.
Cottage cheese – Panier de Meringue et Ses Fruits de Saison is also on the dessert menu.
“Of course we couldn’t allow a lack of any ingredients just because of them not being available here, but we decided to replace some of them with Georgian ones, which of course were similar to those in the original recipe. It’s part of the surprise for our Georgian guests, we want them to recognise some native flavours in the French dishes,” added Klinhoff.
Parnas Restaurant ‘s Chef de Cuisine claimed to be surprised by fresh Georgian products: “I spent nine years in the USA and for me it was a great discovery that Georgian food contains no pesticides, sometimes I find worms in the fruit, it’s great!” said Klinhoff.
The Bastille Day Menu, where the main dishes and salads contain meat, is also ready to be modified into vegetarian food. “We already have vegetable alternatives for our vegetarian customers,” Klinhoff said.
The Bastillie Day dinner menu, which will last the whole week will include special wines, chosen in accordance with the relative dishes. “We have numerous wines available, but it will be up to the client to make the choice. In the Bastille Menu we have wines with mixed Georgian and French grape breeds, like Shambrez and Rkatsiteli,” Irma Tabatadze, Marketing Coordinator of the Tbilisi Marriott Hotel, told The FINANCIAL.
Every meal is from a different part of France. In your mind you can travel round central France while eating the spring mix Salad Campagnarde, to northern France with the help of a pancake stuffed with ham and mushrooms, to Normandy with apple sherbet, and with calvados shot you can also visit the region Lyon.
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