Vicky Cheng’s new Estuary restaurant in Macau is French dining but not as we know it
Vicky Cheng blends healing ingredients with French finesse and Asian touches at his new restaurant Estuary at Macau’s Capella hotel
“You’ll hear the word ‘nourishing’ a lot during this meal,” Vicky Cheng tells us as we sit down for a preview meal at Estuary, his new restaurant at Macau’s Capella hotel that officially opens on May 29.
It is an accurate note – the dinner is a sophisticated calibration of temperature and seasonality, where ingredients seem chosen for their healing properties as much as flavour and prestige. We leave feeling satisfied, but not bogged down.
As French meals go, this is as far as it gets from the traditional tendency to bolster courses with rich, fatty indulgence and palate-blasting moments designed to be washed down with powerful, full-bodied wines.