Fine dining at the Grand Lisboa

One of the star attractions at the Grand Lisboa is the colorful chef and painter Alfonso Iaccarino, who comes to Macau from the Michelin 2-star Ristorante Don Alfonso 1890 in southern Italy. For generations, the secret to his family’s exquisite cooking has been the freshness of ingredients from their organic farm. It will be a true test to see if the same fresh flavors will be found in the dishes here in Macau.

It should hardly be surprising that Alan Ho, who brought Macau’s finest French restaurant, Robuchon a Galera, to his Hotel Lisboa, was the one who convinced Iaccarino to join the Grand Lisboa. “Macau has always been a haven for Portuguese food, but as Macau changes, there is a real need for fine dining of this level,” Ho told us on Don Alfonso 1890’s opening day.

The Eight, another new fine dining outlet, is an elegant, yet cozy Cantonese restaurant whose chef hails from Hong Kong Maxim’s group. Zion Chung, The Eight's manager, said his restaurant’s signature dishes are dried scallops, prawns and shark’s fin with egg white served in a crystal cup.

The Grand Lisboa has four other F&B outlets, designed to suit a wide range of tastes. There is the Noodles and Congee Corner, where you can see tea poured in kung-fu style by waiters with long-knecked teapots, the Grand Buffet, which has every food imaginable on display, the aptly named Round-the-clock Coffee Shop, and a delicious deli packed full of a wide range of cheeses and meats.

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