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Dancing For Your Dinner | QuickTake Dines

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Welcome to HaSalon, the party restaurant where guests eat fancy food and dance on tables #tictocdines 0:15 - Eyal Shani is one of Israel’s top chefs and the judge of Master Chef Israel. But he’s best known for the raucous wedding-party-style dinners he hosts at his Tel Aviv restaurant HaSalon which happen two nights a week (with two seatings per night). The first is seating is traditional: A parade of ingredient-focused dishes served as classical music plays in the background. At the second seating, the music gets increasingly louder, a DJ appears, and the menu slides into the realm of performance art. “The first seating is dinner. The second seating is a party,” says Shani. Now he’s bringing the singular experience to New York’s Skyline Hotel, which will open three nights a week, Thursday through Saturday. A line of eight cooks working from an open kitchen will face the large, low-ceilinged dining room, with white and silvery gray bricks, and …...more
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Dancing For Your Dinner | QuickTake Dines
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2019Jul 12
Welcome to HaSalon, the party restaurant where guests eat fancy food and dance on tables #tictocdines 0:15 - Eyal Shani is one of Israel’s top chefs and the judge of Master Chef Israel. But he’s best known for the raucous wedding-party-style dinners he hosts at his Tel Aviv restaurant HaSalon which happen two nights a week (with two seatings per night). The first is seating is traditional: A parade of ingredient-focused dishes served as classical music plays in the background. At the second seating, the music gets increasingly louder, a DJ appears, and the menu slides into the realm of performance art. “The first seating is dinner. The second seating is a party,” says Shani. Now he’s bringing the singular experience to New York’s Skyline Hotel, which will open three nights a week, Thursday through Saturday. A line of eight cooks working from an open kitchen will face the large, low-ceilinged dining room, with white and silvery gray bricks, and outfitted with variously sized tables seating around 120. The menu will change nightly, but a typical dinner will begin with squares of hot focaccia and spicy dip. There will inevitably be beef carpaccio literally served on the table: A server wheels a butcher cart over, throws some sliced raw meat on the table, and uses a mallet to pound it thin. Shani has well-known affinity for tomatoes, choosing to serve them “naked” in his new restaurant: the fruit in varying stages of ripeness, chopped and drizzled with Sicilian olive oil and salt. He also offers pizzas, made with dough that ripples with big air pockets with toppings like an olive oil-heavy tomato sauce with mozzarella melted into it. He’ll also serve pastas that might range from squiggly shaped pici with calamari and burnt butter (or lamb ragu) to tomato ravioli with sage butter. The restaurant’s tabun—a special, pizza-like oven—will be utilized for roasting whole fish and large cuts of meat such as rib-eye and sirloin, which will be drizzled with butter and herbs before serving. The wine list will include about 60 bottles, mostly from Burgundy, plus some selections from the U.S., Israel, and Italy. A small selection of liquors, such as cucumber gin, will be on offer, along with a few food-friendly cocktails. But anyone who wants a Manhattan or Negroni will have to go next door, to the soon-to-open cocktail bar. Shani says to expect table dancing as the night goes on. “Sometimes it’s weird—mostly it’s fun—but everyone says they’ve never had an experience like it,” he says. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2TwO8Gm TICTOC ON SOCIAL: Follow TicToc on Twitter:   / tictoc   Like TicToc on Facebook:   / tictoc   Follow TicToc on Instagram:   / tictoc   Watch all of TicToc’s videos: https://www.tictoc.video/ Listen to TicToc’s podcast: https://apple.co/2D3Vta7 Subscribe to our newsletter: https://bit.ly/2FJ0oQZ TicToc by Bloomberg is global news for the life you lead. We are a 24/7 news network that covers breaking news, politics, technology, business and entertainment stories from around the globe, supported by a network of Bloomberg’s 2,700 journalists across 120 countries.

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