Aman Tokyo will be holding a "Mushroom Fair - Wild Hospitality" at its Italian restaurant, ALVA, on the 33rd floor from September 24th. A la carte and dinner course dishes will be served, featuring a wide variety of domestically grown mushrooms and plenty of porcini mushrooms and truffles, symbols of autumn in Italy.
The autumn menu at ALVA, which means "harvest," will feature a variety of seasonal ingredients each year. Mushrooms, in particular, hold a special place in the heart of Chef Hiraki Masakazu, who spent 17 years in Italy and recalls, "When the heat subsides, I recall the sight of freshly picked porcini mushrooms piled up in wooden boxes at the Venetian market."
This year's "Mushroom Fair" will feature Italian porcini mushrooms and truffles, as well as a wide variety of domestic mushrooms, to create a variety of dishes that make the most of the delicious flavor of the mushrooms themselves. For example, a simple pasta dish featuring homemade spaghetti in a ragout sauce made from slowly simmered dried and fresh porcini mushrooms is a dish that is typical of Alva, with its rustic yet profound flavor and aroma.
Another highlight of the Mushroom Fair is the opportunity to savor dishes that combine mushrooms with the bounty of the sea and land. Matsukawa flounder, known as a rare, high-quality fish, is paired with a rich soup made with clams, abalone mushrooms, petal mushrooms, and white spirit mushrooms, and is further enhanced with the flavor of freshly shaved truffles, bringing out the fish's elegant, mild flavor. Fatty tuna back tartare is paired with thinly sliced mushroom carpaccio from Nagano Prefecture, and along with black olives and quail eggs, guests can enjoy a variety of textures.
The main dish, "Roasted Kasumi Duck Breast from Ibaraki Prefecture," is a powerful dish that brings out the rich flavor of Kasumi duck, renowned as the finest domestic duck and raised without pesticides or medications in naturally rich soil, with the texture of black maitake mushrooms and the sweetness of fig caramelized cherry blossoms.
Hiraki visits producers all over the country and his desire to "support producers by actively using domestic products" embodies this desire. Enjoy a variety of rustic Italian dishes, all accompanied by the early autumn view of Tokyo that spreads out from the window.
"Mushroom Fair - Rustic Hospitality"
Period: Thursday 24th September - Sunday 18th October 2020
Location: Italian Restaurant "Alva", 33rd floor, Aman Tokyo
Opening hours: Lunch 12:00pm - 2:30pm Dinner 5:30pm - 10:00pm (Last orders 8:00pm)
Price: Dinner course 17,000 yen; A la carte from 2,800 yen (tax and service charge not included)
Reservations: Restaurant reservations 03-5224-3339 (10.00am – 7.00pm)
Web reservation: https://www.tablecheck.com/ja/shops/amantokyo-arva/reserve
"Alva" Chef Masakazu Hiraki
After moving to Italy in 1999, he traveled to various restaurants and home-style restaurants across the country, mastering a variety of culinary techniques, including gastronomy, game, and mama's cooking. In 2002, he worked at the five-star The Bauer Hotel in Venice, where he served as executive chef for the last three years. In the spring of 2016, after 2017 years in Italy, he returned to Japan and is now the executive chef of Aman Tokyo's Italian restaurant, "Alva." He serves simple yet sophisticated Italian cuisine, using carefully selected ingredients from producers across Japan and seasonal ingredients imported from Italy. "I'm happy to be able to cook and have people enjoy my food. Now that our lifestyles and rhythms have changed, I want to bring even more pure joy to food," he says. His recipe videos, which he began uploading during the "Stay Home" period, are now available on Instagram (@m.hirakii).
About Aman Tokyo
Aman Tokyo opened on December 22, 2014, as Aman's first urban hotel and its first in Japan. Occupying the top floors, 33rd to 38th, of the Otemachi Tower high-rise complex, it offers a spacious and tranquil space that combines traditional Japanese culture with modernity, using wood, stone and washi paper. The hotel has 84 guest rooms, a garden lounge with high ceilings, a restaurant and a bar lounge with a cigar lounge, a cafe in a separate building on the first floor, a sushi restaurant with eight counter seats, eight treatment suites, and an Aman Spa with a 30-meter indoor pool and fitness gym, and guests can enjoy views of Tokyo and nature from anywhere in the hotel.
About Aman
Aman was founded in 1988 as a collection of private resorts offering luxurious and extraordinary experiences, with the warm hospitality of a private home and distinctive beauty. The concept was spread to the world from its first resort, Amanpuri (Place of Peace) on the island of Phuket, and Aman currently operates 40 resorts (including those scheduled to open by 2023) in 22 destinations: Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Dominican Republic, France, Greece, Indonesia, India, Italy, Japan (Niseko 2023), Laos, Mexico (2021), Montenegro, Morocco, Philippines, Saudi Arabia (2023), Sri Lanka, Thailand (Bangkok 2022), Turkey, Turks & Caicos Islands, and North America (New York 2021, Miami 2023).
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The autumn menu at ALVA, which means "harvest," will feature a variety of seasonal ingredients each year. Mushrooms, in particular, hold a special place in the heart of Chef Hiraki Masakazu, who spent 17 years in Italy and recalls, "When the heat subsides, I recall the sight of freshly picked porcini mushrooms piled up in wooden boxes at the Venetian market."
This year's "Mushroom Fair" will feature Italian porcini mushrooms and truffles, as well as a wide variety of domestic mushrooms, to create a variety of dishes that make the most of the delicious flavor of the mushrooms themselves. For example, a simple pasta dish featuring homemade spaghetti in a ragout sauce made from slowly simmered dried and fresh porcini mushrooms is a dish that is typical of Alva, with its rustic yet profound flavor and aroma.
Another highlight of the Mushroom Fair is the opportunity to savor dishes that combine mushrooms with the bounty of the sea and land. Matsukawa flounder, known as a rare, high-quality fish, is paired with a rich soup made with clams, abalone mushrooms, petal mushrooms, and white spirit mushrooms, and is further enhanced with the flavor of freshly shaved truffles, bringing out the fish's elegant, mild flavor. Fatty tuna back tartare is paired with thinly sliced mushroom carpaccio from Nagano Prefecture, and along with black olives and quail eggs, guests can enjoy a variety of textures.
The main dish, "Roasted Kasumi Duck Breast from Ibaraki Prefecture," is a powerful dish that brings out the rich flavor of Kasumi duck, renowned as the finest domestic duck and raised without pesticides or medications in naturally rich soil, with the texture of black maitake mushrooms and the sweetness of fig caramelized cherry blossoms.
Hiraki visits producers all over the country and his desire to "support producers by actively using domestic products" embodies this desire. Enjoy a variety of rustic Italian dishes, all accompanied by the early autumn view of Tokyo that spreads out from the window.
"Mushroom Fair - Rustic Hospitality"
Period: Thursday 24th September - Sunday 18th October 2020
Location: Italian Restaurant "Alva", 33rd floor, Aman Tokyo
Opening hours: Lunch 12:00pm - 2:30pm Dinner 5:30pm - 10:00pm (Last orders 8:00pm)
Price: Dinner course 17,000 yen; A la carte from 2,800 yen (tax and service charge not included)
Reservations: Restaurant reservations 03-5224-3339 (10.00am – 7.00pm)
Web reservation: https://www.tablecheck.com/ja/shops/amantokyo-arva/reserve
"Alva" Chef Masakazu Hiraki
After moving to Italy in 1999, he traveled to various restaurants and home-style restaurants across the country, mastering a variety of culinary techniques, including gastronomy, game, and mama's cooking. In 2002, he worked at the five-star The Bauer Hotel in Venice, where he served as executive chef for the last three years. In the spring of 2016, after 2017 years in Italy, he returned to Japan and is now the executive chef of Aman Tokyo's Italian restaurant, "Alva." He serves simple yet sophisticated Italian cuisine, using carefully selected ingredients from producers across Japan and seasonal ingredients imported from Italy. "I'm happy to be able to cook and have people enjoy my food. Now that our lifestyles and rhythms have changed, I want to bring even more pure joy to food," he says. His recipe videos, which he began uploading during the "Stay Home" period, are now available on Instagram (@m.hirakii).
About Aman Tokyo
Aman Tokyo opened on December 22, 2014, as Aman's first urban hotel and its first in Japan. Occupying the top floors, 33rd to 38th, of the Otemachi Tower high-rise complex, it offers a spacious and tranquil space that combines traditional Japanese culture with modernity, using wood, stone and washi paper. The hotel has 84 guest rooms, a garden lounge with high ceilings, a restaurant and a bar lounge with a cigar lounge, a cafe in a separate building on the first floor, a sushi restaurant with eight counter seats, eight treatment suites, and an Aman Spa with a 30-meter indoor pool and fitness gym, and guests can enjoy views of Tokyo and nature from anywhere in the hotel.
About Aman
Aman was founded in 1988 as a collection of private resorts offering luxurious and extraordinary experiences, with the warm hospitality of a private home and distinctive beauty. The concept was spread to the world from its first resort, Amanpuri (Place of Peace) on the island of Phuket, and Aman currently operates 40 resorts (including those scheduled to open by 2023) in 22 destinations: Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Dominican Republic, France, Greece, Indonesia, India, Italy, Japan (Niseko 2023), Laos, Mexico (2021), Montenegro, Morocco, Philippines, Saudi Arabia (2023), Sri Lanka, Thailand (Bangkok 2022), Turkey, Turks & Caicos Islands, and North America (New York 2021, Miami 2023).
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