Caprice (restaurant)
{{short description|Restaurant in Hong Kong}}
{{Infobox Restaurant
| name = Caprice
| image = Caprice Restaurant.JPG
| image_width = 250px
| image_caption = Caprice at night
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| established =
| current-owner =
| head-chef = Guillaume Galliot
| food-type = French
| dress-code = Business casual
| rating = {{Michelinstar|3}} Michelin Guide Hong Kong Macau 2019 (11th Edition)
| street-address = 8 Finance Street, Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong, Central
| city = Hong Kong
| country = China
| seating-capacity = 100
| reservations = Recommended
| other-information =
| website = {{URL | https://www.fourseasons.com/hongkong/dining/restaurants/caprice | FourSeasons.com/.../Caprice }}
| coordinates = {{coord|22.2863|114.1567|display=inline,title|format=dms}}
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Caprice is a contemporary French haute cuisine restaurant in the Four Seasons Hotel, Hong Kong.{{cite web |title=Caprice: French fine dining inspired by Paris' Le Cinq |url=http://travel.cnn.com/hong-kong/eat/caprice-757287 |work=CNN Travel |accessdate=6 December 2012 |date=4 September 2009}} It was initially run by chef de cuisine Vincent Thierry, a former sous chef at Le Cinq in the Hotel George V, Paris. Guillaume Galliot is the current chef de cuisine.
Recognitions
The restaurant received two stars in the Michelin Guide's inaugural 2009 Hong Kong and Macau edition.{{cite news |first=Le-Min |last=Lim |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aDEvbhqfwJjk |title=Michelin Hong Kong Gives 3 Stars to 2 Restaurants (Update1) |work=Bloomberg |date=2 December 2008 |accessdate=6 December 2012}} This was followed by the third star in November 2009 for the 2010 edition, which lasted for 4 years until the 2014 edition. Caprice has then been awarded 2 Michelin stars perennially for 5 years. In the 2019 edition, Caprice was awarded 3 Michelin stars again.
The restaurant was listed at no. 5 on Asia's Top 20 Restaurants of the Miele Guide in the 2011/2012 edition.{{cite web |title=Asia's Top 20 for 2011/2012 |url=http://themieleguide.com/asias-top-20/2011-2012 |work=Miele Guide |accessdate=6 December 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130127082732/http://themieleguide.com/asias-top-20/2011-2012 |archivedate=27 January 2013 }} It was also listed at no. 11 for 2008/2009{{cite web |title=Asia's Top 20 for 2008/2009 |url=http://themieleguide.com/asias-top-20/2008-2009 |work=Miele Guide |accessdate=6 December 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121110043246/http://themieleguide.com/asias-top-20/2008-2009 |archivedate=10 November 2012 }} and no. 10 for 2010/2011,{{cite web |title=Asia's Top 20 for 2010/2011 |url=http://themieleguide.com/asias-top-20/2010-2011 |work=Miele Guide |accessdate=6 December 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121127141252/http://themieleguide.com/asias-top-20/2010-2011 |archivedate=27 November 2012 }} as well as no. 16 in the 2009/2010 edition.{{cite news |last=Li |first=Zoe |title=Hong Kong restaurants top the Miele Guide |url=http://travel.cnn.com/hong-kong/eat/hong-kong-restaurants-top-miele-guide-979692 |accessdate=6 December 2012 |newspaper=CNN Travel |date=1 October 2009}}
In 2010, it was listed as the 'Best French restaurant' on the Hong Kong Best Eats 2010 list compiled by CNN Travel.{{cite news |title=Winners of Hong Kong Best Eats 2010: The best of the best of our selection of Hong Kong's most noteworthy dishes and restaurants |url=http://travel.cnn.com/hong-kong/eat/winners-hong-kong-best-eats-2010-432973 |accessdate=6 December 2012 |newspaper=CNN Travel |date=18 October 2010}}
Serves France's famed four year aged Comté cheese.
On 29 April 2013, Caprice was named 73rd in the top 100 restaurants in The World's Best Restaurants Awards.{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/restaurants/10025831/Worlds-Best-Restaurants-2013-the-top-100-in-full.html |title=World's Best Restaurants 2013: the top 100 in full |publisher=Daily Telegraph |date=29 April 2013 |accessdate=2 May 2013}}
Caprice is added to Forbes Travel Guide's list of 5 stars restaurants in January 2014.{{cite web |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/dispatches/2014/01/22/forbes-travel-guide-five-stars/4751613/ |title=Forbes Travel Guide names Five-Star properties |author=Nancy Trejos |publisher=USA TODAY |date=22 January 2014}}
See also
References
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External links
{{Commons category|Caprice Restaurant|Caprice (restaurant)}}
- [http://www.fourseasons.com/hongkong/dining/caprice.html Caprice at Four Seasons Hotel website]
- [http://www.forbestravelguide.com/hong-kong-china/restaurants/caprice Caprice at Forbes Travel Guide]
{{Hong Kong restaurants}}
Category:French restaurants in Hong Kong
Category:Companies with year of establishment missing