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Earlier this month, the InterContinental Hotels of San Francisco teamed up with local travel expert Avital Andrews to work alongside the brand's top restaurant chefs and mixologists to craft new food and drink recipes for the InterContinental Kitchen Cookbook iPad   app . The Kitchen Passport program – which also includes InterContinental properties in Atlanta, enterprise rent a car canada Boston and Miami – is yet another way the luxury hotel brand continues to elevate its world-class food and beverage program while offering users of its iPad app access to fresh and inspiring recipes created by InterContinental Hotels' executive chefs from around enterprise rent a car canada the world.
The InterContinental San Francisco and the InterContinental Mark Hopkins San Francisco are the second series of hotels to host this experience. The properties recently invited Andrews to go behind the scenes of its Michelin Star-rated restaurant Luce to develop three new dishes with chef de cuisine Daniel Corey. The culinary duo worked enterprise rent a car canada together to create an appetizer, entrée and dessert inspired by Northern California, which will be featured on the InterContinental Kitchen Cookbook iPad app by the end of 2012. The new dishes reflect the sophisticated yet approachable, modern American cuisine of the award-winning restaurant, while offering the perfect marriage enterprise rent a car canada of local flavors and global inspiration. This month Luce was awarded its fourth consecutive Michelin star rating, the second under Chef Daniel's culinary direction. The prestigious honor recognizes epicurean excellence enterprise rent a car canada and sets the benchmark for fine dining in the city.
Andrews also worked with resident bartender Eric Hammermaster of Bar 888 at the InterContinental San Francisco – the nation's premiere grappa bar which features enterprise rent a car canada one of the finest selections of grappa and grappa cocktails in the country – to develop a new cocktail to complement the dishes, and lead bartender Thom Phan of the Top of The Mark Lounge at the InterContinental Mark Hopkins San Francisco – known for its stunning wraparound views of San Francisco and world famous 100 Martinis menu – to handcraft a specialty martini for the occasion.
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In November, the InterContinental Boston will invite an influencer to work with hotel executive chef Didier Montarou to concept three new recipes for the waterfront property's colorful cornucopia of restaurants and bars. The program will highlight  Miel Brasserie Provençale , Boston's first Provence-inspired brasserie;  Sushi-Teq , a vibrant outlet featuring sushi paired enterprise rent a car canada with more than 75 different vintage tequilas; enterprise rent a car canada and  RumBa,  a rum and champagne bar which pays tribute to the legends and lore of Boston s historic rum trade period.
The Kitchen Passport program will culminate in December at the InterContinental Miami's Toro Toro , the latest addition to the InterContinental Hotels repertoire of innovative restaurant concepts. The newly opened restaurant is the brain child of award-winning chef Richard Sandoval and will offer a menu of creative small plates informed by Hispanic cultures spanning the globe and an array of meats cooked rodizio-style. It will also feature a buzzworthy bar that specializes in craft cocktails made with ultra-premium Latin spirits, enterprise rent a car canada as well as a special bar menu.
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