The Divine Dish

Langham Hotel Debuts New Menu at the Terrace Restaurant

Last Thursday evening the Langham Huntington Hotel and Spa held a press event to introduce their new California-bistro style menu for the Terrace restaurant.  Chef de Cuisine Loren Lawe, along with the guidance of Executive Chef Denis Depoitre and Executive Sous Chef Christophe Pellier, created the menu with the intention of bringing new flavors to the hotel and the community.  Pastry Chef John Quinn created the dessert menu.

Chefs Loren Lawe and Denis Depoitre

The new menu is comprised of an assortment of appetizers, salads, sandwiches, pastas, entrees and “plateaus,” which are meals designed to share among two to eight people. Here are some pics of the new items on the menu:

Osso bucco with creamy polenta and fried parsnips

Western bone-in rib eye with roasted veggies and bearnaise sauce

Roasted duck confit with sweet yams, sauteed cabbage and duck rillette

ham black truffle macaroni and cheese

Slow braised short rib with pastroville artichoke and micro cilantro salad

Whole roasted chicken tagine and couscous

Pastry chef John Quinn showed us how to make sculpted marzipan desserts, here is our favorite – the teddy bear.

marzipan Teddy

Chef Quinn also created dozens of delicious and beautiful desserts, below is the stunning dessert table.

Dessert table at Langham

My friend Dalbert (seen above getting tea to the left of the table) and I selected these tasty treats to sample.

yummy desserts

You can listen to a short interview with chefs Lawe and Quinn on the interview link.