Located next to Repulse Bay, The Ocean Restaurant is a very young western restaurant that opened in 2017 with a view of the sea from Repulse Bay. The Ocean was awarded a Michelin star in 2018 less than a year after opening, the shortest time to receive a Michelin star among any restaurant in the same period. However, due to its location far from the city, compared to the star-rated western restaurants in Central, The Ocean is far away in the Repulse Bay Scenic Area is more deserted, and the customers are mostly Repulse Bay tourists or diners who specialize in exploring Michelin-starred restaurants.
The Ocean is a sister restaurant to the two-Michelin-starred L'Auberge des Glazicks. Originally from France, Chef Bellin worked with world-renowned chef Joël Robuchon at The Mid-Nienties in Paris before returning to Los Angeles to work with two-Michelin-starred chef Jacques Thorel. Since participating in the prestigious Food France competition in the French food industry, Bellin has been showing her talents in the French food industry and has won many authoritative recognitions. Having served as the head chef of The Ocean since its opening in 2017, Bellin has a culinary philosophy of respecting ingredients and restoring the taste of them.
All seafood served by The Ocean is sustainable, each seafood is caught in accordance with the season, and all seafood is certified with information such as origin, method and weight of the seafood, so as to protect the environment and maintain freshness. The menu and variety of seafood served at the restaurant vary according to the seasons. Due to the different quantity and freshness of seafood in each season, the chef will also make appropriate adjustments in the current season, and the renewal rate is faster. The restaurant's menu is set menu, with five- and eight-course courses themed around the sea, and each dish is made with a combination of marine ingredients. Brittany prawn is one of the restaurant's signature dishes, with a plump shelled lobster meat and no complex spices, only served with ham slices and seafood foam, restoring the original flavor of the ingredients. In addition, freshly selected sea urchins and scallops are incorporated into most of the dishes, and the pigeon is the only non-seafood ingredient in the store. It is worth mentioning that because the restaurant focuses on seafood, some of the raw and cold seafood is not suitable for children, so it is more suitable to choose The Ocean as a restaurant for couples or friends to gather for family dinners.
The restaurant takes the theme of sea and land to the extreme, with blue representing the sea, logs representing the land, and blue and white as the main colors to create a fresh and natural style. From fish tanks, sail models, lighting and other decorations, to blue-toned shellfish-shaped dinner plates, menus and business cards are designed with a white and blue gradient background, and every detail reflects the care. Floor-to-ceiling windows allow diners to take in the views of Repulse Bay Beach, giving them a romantic and elegant atmosphere whether the sun shines through during the day or the stars shine at night. Most of the waiters in the restaurant are foreign men, and most of them need to communicate in English, and each dish will be introduced in detail when it is served. The fly in the ointment is that the restaurant is slow to serve food, which requires diners to wait patiently.
