"I want to prove that my grandmother's house can make real haute cuisine." ——Wu Guoping, the founder of Grandma's Family, single-handedly created Yanxi Lake, making this sentence a reality. As a gilded second-tier city, Hangzhou is very lacking in high-end restaurants, although it is supported by bosses such as Longjing Thatched Cottage, Four Seasons Hotel Jinsha Hall, and Hyatt Lakeside 28, but there are few latecomers. Yanxi Lake has emerged in the industry and stood firmly in the first echelon of high-end restaurants in Hangzhou.
The restaurant is located in the Huanglong Hotel, Mr. Wu spent 8 million yuan to renovate, the four seasons of the West Lake scenery moved to the restaurant, surrounded by the activated West Lake landscape, echoing with the wall mirror, to the time of the lamp, the waiter lit the real fire fireplace in the banquet, the light and shadow floated, the artistic conception of the south of the Yangtze River is long, it is a very luxurious dining environment.
Based on the tone of grandma's house, Yanxi Lake focuses on high-end creative Hangzhou cuisine. The various dishes developed by the kitchen are all tasted and controlled by Mr. Wu himself, and the classic set menu and seasonal set menu that guests can now taste can be described as Mr. Wu's private menu. High-end creative dishes should first set the tone in taste, and the ingredients of Yanxi Lake are eclectic, and the cooking methods are a combination of Chinese and Western, from appetizers, soups, hot dishes, staple foods to desserts, there is no lack of highlights. In the kitchen, you can make foie gras into the shape of fermented bean curd and eat it with mini Wushan butter cakes, or you can replace the fritters with green onion buns and juniper for the mainstream beef. You may not have eaten it in other high-end restaurants, and the clever use of Hangzhou folk snacks makes the mind of outsiders taste more praiseworthy. For example, the osmanthus West Lake lotus root flour in the 2017 winter menu looks like pizza ice cream at first glance, but in fact there is a hole at the bottom. The 2018 Spring Menu features roses and vegetables served with large pieces of pale pink rose salt, which are steam baked and slowly released a salty aroma that is still fresh and sweet even if they are not soaked in salt.
In addition to showcasing creativity, most of the dishes still take into account the taste, there is no shortage of caviar, king crab, pork knuckles, duck and other ingredients that cater to the preferences of all parties, especially the caviar is designated with sturgeon roe from Qiandao Lake, and the amount of a dish is generally about 4 grams, which is full of sincerity. Moreover, each package must have warm soups such as bamboo shoot chicken soup and bird's nest syrup, which is very comfortable after a meal. For first-time diners, the classic set menu and seasonal menu are worth trying; From the perspective of experience, the creativity and seasonal combination of the seasonal menu are more worth looking forward to, especially for regular customers.
Combined with the seasonal menus of the spring of 2018 and the previous two years, the creativity of the dishes seems to be lacking in stamina, and there are still many shadows of old dishes in the eight-course menu, and only "bamboo shoots" appear frequently, which fails to fully tap the local ingredients, which is still a certain gap with the concept and theme of the restaurant. Moreover, the dishes lack heavyweight main dishes that poke at the memory points of diners, and do not fully reflect the chef's superb skills, which fails to leave a clear impression on diners. Judging from the recent performance of the dishes, they have not been able to raise to a height that matches the price of 700 yuan per person.
Of course, the service is fully up to the level of a high-end restaurant, and the introduction of dishes, warm dishes, pouring wine, etc. are timely and in place; The menu explanations and menu explanations on one knee that you rarely experience elsewhere deserve to be recognized for their natural and comforting experience. However, Mr. Wu boasted that Haikou "personally served dishes to customers", which was only done at the beginning of the opening, and now he is almost impossible to meet in person. The dining area is a quiet dining area, with soft voices and dimly lit rooms, making it ideal for dates or banquets.
As a reminder, Yanxi Lake only has a dinner and needs to make a reservation. The restaurant only has 50 seats, so if you need to eat between 18:00 and 20:00, you should make a reservation early.
