Calling all Shanghai residents, wake up with a smile because an exciting new brunch concept awaits at the brand new Sofitel Hongqiao Hotel. Bursting with elegant and ornate fixtures that pay homage to French classical style, prepare to be utterly transported as you make your way to the hotel’s signature international restaurant, Kwee Zeen.
Featuring eight live ateliers cooking fresh dishes throughout the day, allow Kwee Zeen’s breathtaking interiors and soaring high ceilings to transport you to antiquity.
The new brunch is a celebration of another French tradition, the famed cuisine of Lyons in Southeastern France. Think of French fine dining, and images of male chefs in pristine white robes spring to mind, but in actual fact the true pioneers of the French Kitchen were women: the Mères Lyonnaises (‘Lyonnais Mothers’).
These women were everyday kitchen cooks who in the mid-19th century left their homes to work restaurants and kitchens, bringing with them a hearty ingredient-led cuisine that captured the taste buds of the nation.
The most famous of these is Mère Eugenie Brazier, who gained a total of six Michelin Stars and mentored Paul Bocuse, France’s most famous living chef. Here at Kwee Zeen you can feast in Mère Brazier’s honor, on foie gras prepared multiple ways, oysters, sumptuous seafood, fine French cheeses and more, for RMB388 per person, or RMB588 including free-flow Champagne, wine and beer.
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