Ollie Dabu biography

The concept of the new restaurant is based on the author’s recipes for the Michelin cook Ollie Dabu and the Hedonism Wines Wine collection. According to Chichvarkin, together they plan to "create a real gastronomic utopia." On the eve of the official opening of Zima, she went to reconnaissance restaurant. Despite the name, finding a restaurant is very simple: it is located on Piccadilli Street, literally a hundred meters from the Green Park metro.

Previously, the FAKHRELDINE Lebanese restaurant, which lasted more than 30 years, and the Italian Diverso, were located at this place. Hide occupies three floors, and panoramic windows overlook Piccadilly and Park. At the same time, guests can accommodate here.

The design of the room is made with Scandinavian restraint: a cold pastel palette, an abundance of smooth natural wood, linen napkins, wildflowers, low lamps resembling eggshells. Nothing thrill, it attracts everything, but does not distract from the main thing - food. Ollie Dabu, responsible for food, is one of the most popular cooks in the UK. In order to completely immerse himself in a new project, the chef closed his two successful restaurants: Barnyard and Dabbous.

The latter received the Michelin star, and it was there that Dabu met Chichvarkin. The partnership seems successful - Hide now has one of the largest wine cards in the world. The standard menu includes wines, but the guests can also choose wine from the electronic menu Hedonism Wines, where their order will be delivered for a moment, since Chichvarkin’s store is on one of the neighboring streets.

Three floors are three different spaces united by a screw staircase. By the way, the staircase is not only the main accent in the interior. In the year, when the restaurant was only plans, it was the staircase that became the first acquisition. So Hide, literally, was built around her. A hypnotizing look opens from the upper floor - the staircase goes down along the spiral to the basement bar.

The third level of Hide in a restaurant is called ABOVE is given to the Fine Dining here guests are represented by the author’s tasting menu from 11 dishes with Wine Pairing. It is better to lay enough time for such a meal - at our editorial office, the tasting took about three hours. The process is accompanied by thoughtful stories of personnel about the regions of wine and the features of dishes.

In the menu, for example, the royal crab with a turnip, chamomile honey and salty oil; Raw tuna with a prickly ash is such a North American plant, whose bark is used in medicine and black caviar from Exmoor Caviar - the only caviar farm in the UK. Here we could endlessly list the outlandish ingredients of the menu, but instead we took a photo. There is also a bakery that works around the clock so that the restaurant always has fresh Zima bread confirms: the bread is very tasty.

Finally, in the Below basement there is a wine cellar, a cocktail bar and three separate rooms for closed dinners each of the rooms have its own topic. One is called Broken Room and decorated with a reference to the Japanese tradition to repair broken dishes with gold - this is a kind of metaphor about how difficulties temper the character of a person. The rooms are decorated with dishes, which was "glued" with gold.

The second room is a library. It is decorated with arches from book pages, as well as the warning "not to make noise." In the third room, which is called the "room of the shadows", and you feel a little Alice. The lighting is built in such a way that bizarre shadows of rabbits, deer and other animals play on the walls. An elevator leads to the private rooms of the upper floor, which can be reached directly from the parking lot to the visit of the VIP guest, apparently decided to prepare immediately.

Each countertop has a special box where you can find chargers for mobile. In addition to food, wine, interior and thoughtful little things, the Hide waiters, dressed in linen uniforms with brooches, leave a good impression. And not because they correctly bring a napkin. And because they know how to smile in time and say: “Do not worry about staining your hands.

So tastier. " And this is true. The life of the restaurant can be monitored on Hide Instagram, as well as on the instagram The Place for ME to Hide, which is led by Evgeny Chichvarkin and who is largely dedicated to guilt. Photo: Katya Nikitina.