New restaurant Ten Stories launches with award-winning Executive Chef and menu infused with honey from their own rooftop beehives!New restaurant Ten Stories launches with award-winning Executive Chef and menu infused with honey from their own rooftop beehives!
Ten Stories is the new restaurant at the 5-star Swissotel Sydney in the CBD launching on Thursday 18 November. Nestled high above the bustling city scape, within a heritage building, Ten Stories is a calm oasis of lush green foliage, subtle pastel accents, and stunning floral arrangements.
Heading up the kitchen is award-winning Executive Chef John Giovanni Pugliano who has over 25 years’ experience spanning London, Hong Kong, Thailand, India, Dubai, and Australia. His earlier culinary experiences include working at Nobu London, Aqua Restaurants Hong Kong, Langham Place Hong Kong, Fairmont Hotels in Dubai and most recently, Russolini Group in Sydney. Pugliano has featured in several international magazines and television shows, and during his 18-year stint internationally cooking in top restaurants and hotels, has cooked for world leaders in the United Arab Emirates, celebrities in London, fashion and sports icons in Hong Kong, headed up the openings of several top restaurants and 5-star luxury hotels and resorts, and won various restaurant awards to add to his ongoing achievements.
John’s menu at Ten Stories stays true to the Swissotel brand ethos of sustainability and craftsmanship, featuring carefully sourced sustainable Australian produce to create a modern Australian menu with Italian and Asian accents. But the special surprise ingredient used throughout various dishes and cocktails is honey and honeycomb harvested from its own rooftop beehives!
Swissotel Sydney is working with Sydney Bee Rescue, a group of Sydney based beekeepers who are dedicated to bee conservation and the rescue and relocation of bee colonies from places where they are at risk. On their rooftop garden are four beehives, with the bees servicing the nearby Royal Botanic Garden, and supplying Ten Stories with its own freshly harvested honey. Signature dishes include an entrée of miso marinated kingfish, with green apple, shiso, sea grapes and gold leaf honey; main of paperbark roasted spring chicken and dessert of honeycomb crunch gelato with white honeycomb & honey blossom flower.
Early next year the hotel will be installing four Airgarden’s in their restaurant to grow their own herbs and vegetables to utilise in the restaurant. The Airgarden is built with a technology called aeroponics – a solution developed by NASA to grow food in air and mist, without the use of any soil, which results in faster growth and less maintenance than any other form of gardening. The Airgarden is Australia’s first locally manufactured aeroponic retail gardening system and is 100% natural.
Ten Stories will also feature group specials, such as a Sunday Graze Menu which showcases kitchen favourites and menu signatures, and for the ultimate girl’s day out there is the “Girls Are Back in Town” package, featuring bottomless rose and a delicious 5 course share menu with sides.
For a city break with a difference book in at Swissotel Sydney and enjoy shopping and theatre excursions, laps in the roof top pool, unwinding at the day spa, and the truly unique dining experience of Ten Stories, all set in the heart of Sydney’s CDB.
https://swissotelsydney.com.au/bar-restaurant/tenstories/
Ten Stories, 16th November 2021
