Kerry Hotel, Pudong, a sub-brand of Shangri-La Group, is one of the top five-star hotels in Shanghai with the largest and most advanced meeting rooms, banquet venues and health club among five-star hotels in Shanghai. The hotel's food and beverage facilities are also very strong. Among them, The MEAT Grill Restaurant is a modern and casual steakhouse and barbecue restaurant, with the largest dry aging cultivation room (also known as the meat decanting room) in Shanghai, which is rare in China. The restaurant offers some of Shanghai's finest grass-fed beef, in addition to fresh seafood barbecue and a selection of New World and Old World wines. It has won many honors such as the "Excellent Service Award" at the 2017 National Beverage Service Excellence Competition, the "Steakhouse of the Year" in 2017 TimeOut Shanghai, and the 2018 Michelin Guide Shanghai Recommended Restaurant.
The head chef is Goh Kian An from Malaysia, who graduated from Stamford Culinary School in Singapore with a degree in Culinary Arts. Prior to joining Kerry Hotel, Pudong, Shanghai, Wu Jian'an was the Executive Chef of Shangri-La Hotel, Wenzhou, where he was involved in the preparation of the hotel's opening, and has been with the Group for more than 20 years.
The restaurant selects 264-year-old beef from the Rangers Valley Ranch in the New South Wales Highlands, Australia, which is not only extremely careful in selecting cowboys, but also fed with its own high-protein grain feed to ensure the health of its cattle, and has won the title of Australia's best breeding farm of the year many times. Under the management of Executive Sous Chef Tobias Unger, the restaurant has built a 15-square-metre dry-maturation room made of stainless steel. The relative humidity, temperature, and ventilation in the room are strictly standardized, and the chefs and chefs also make rounds of the meat room four times a day. After 14-21 days of drying in the room, the surface of the steak will be stripped of excess moisture and air-dried and hardened, while the moisture of the gravy inside is firmly locked, and the taste is better. All steaks are grilled in cherry wood, and the beef grilled at a high temperature of 300-400 degrees Celsius is juicy with hints of cherry wood. CNPP100 recommend ordering medium-rare steaks.
The restaurant's signature dish is the Kobe Tomahawk Steak, a piece of M4 Angus Beef weighing about 1.8kg, which is enough to feed 4 people. After 14-21 days of resting, the beef is smoked and roasted in cherry wood for 45 minutes, and the steak is fragrant, thick and juicy, and delicious. It is also served with a fresh garden salad on the side so that the whole steak is not too greasy. Another red maple smoked steak is made with M5 Kobe sirloin steak, which is first grilled in the oven on cherry wood, then left for a while before being smoked with red maple smoke. The marbled Kobe beef not only has a soft and smooth texture, but also has a unique woody and smoky flavor that will leave you with a taste that you will never forget.
The MEAT Grill Restaurant not only focuses on beef, but also serves a range of fresh seafood, poultry, vegetables, pork and lamb delicacies, complemented by signature side dishes and sauces. The tender grilled four-headed abalone is grilled with a variety of seasonings such as fennel and thyme leaves, and seasoned with salt, pepper and olive oil. Macaroni and cheese are also good options.
Located on the second floor of Kerry Hotel, Pudong, the restaurant offers a panoramic view of beef in the transparent windows, red horn lights on the ceiling, and black wood and red lighting to create a dreamy American dining atmosphere. The restaurant consists of a communal dining area and a private dining room that can accommodate up to 14 people. The restaurant also employs steak experts to prepare a variety of steak and beef dishes for guests, and diners can choose their favorite parts outside the transparent decanter room and have them prepared by the chef by appointment in advance. As a dear touch, parents enjoy a meal while the kids enjoy a two-hour play at the Kids' Adventure Zone on the fourth floor of the hotel, perfect for families with young children. The service staff has high comprehensive quality, enthusiasm and caring, and 10% service charge is required.
