Restaurant Rating | Pink décor, boosted portions and pain-dropping prices – Esplanade’s new successful restaurant is one night for girls

Traditional The restaurant on the two floors of the Bensow house opened in Chéri in September, and since then there has been a hustle and bustle.

A couple of previous attempts at this location didn’t take the wind down, even though the location is some of the most handsome in the city and El Greco and Vespa, among others, thrived in the corner. The most recent fish and seafood restaurant, Bassi, was short-lived and was not preceded by Hans Välimäki and the Asian restaurant company of the Tampere restaurant company has gained lasting popularity.

Chérin, lined up to be Parisian, has a background in visual restaurant experiences and food trends. Richard McCormick, a supporter of vegetarianism, an entrepreneur Alex Nieminen and Noho, a listed company in the restaurant industry. The same group has their keys playing at Vegetarian Restaurant Yes Yes Yes and Holidays, known for their party.

The combination of partying and eating is one of the strengths of the authors and is reflected in Chér. On weekends, it has been difficult to get a table reservation. Even on a test night, the large restaurant is crammed full, cocktails are carried to the tables and music plays to the competition with an intensifying rumble of speech.

Almost all customers are women. Large and small groups, set off in pairs and set up on their own at the bar counter. There is going to be a happy girls night out.

The target group is in possession and is served with, among other things, colorful drinks and an interior tailored to Instagram credibility. The décor features pink lodges, marble tables and cherry red lamps. The walls have a mirror on top of the mirror.

What about then food?

The waiter starts telling you how the menu works. That’s a bad sign. When a restaurant has to explain how a list works, it usually doesn’t work. The beautifully illustrated list, available only in English, is divided into themes: garden, sea, farm, etc. The last serving of each group is reportedly “main course”, but it might not even be inferred from the price. Most doses are thought to be divided.

Lace curtains, marble tables and pink coloring dominate the décor. Picture: Rio Gandara / HS

French is interpreted loosely in food, and there is plenty of Italian on offer, including gnocchi, risotto and burrata. Yes Yes Unlike Yes, the list also includes meat and seafood.

excellent delicious doses turn out to be gnocchi, lobster risotto and lobster soup. Gnocchi, 16 e, are soft and crispy. The classic sage butter meets the sweet and velvety pumpkin puree on a plate.

Lobster soup, 18 e, is served spectacularly. The wreath of crab pieces and rouille spots gets a fluffy and sophisticated-tasting soap. Risotto, 36 e, is flowing and its deep taste is reminiscent of the French fish-seafood soup bouillabaise. The lobster tail placed on top is juicy.

The green salad, ordered as a side dish, charms at first, but after a few forks, the taste, boasted with parmesan, miso and truffle oil, becomes too strong and puffy the taste buds. The same happens with the mushroom tartar, 14 e. In it, truffle oil rolls everything, even grated real truffle on top.

Oven ice cream flavored with lemon paste rests on a bed of pistachios. Picture: Rio Gandara / HS

The favorite serving seems to be a portable burrata on almost every table, 14 e. The cheese ball is accompanied by a big sparkling pesto, herbs, lavender and tomatoes. The end result is confusing.

Oven ice cream flavored with lemon paste, 14 e, is also popular. It is served with raspberry sorbet and is just as delicious as it looks.

Service is exceptionally knowledgeable and friendly on the first test, the waiter ‘s knowledge of the portions is incomplete on the second test. The prices are in the upper register, partly because the portions use caviar, lobster and other luxury ingredients. It is also noteworthy that there are eight champagnes on the list of nine sparkling wines. Is this a sign of a rising climate?

Chéri can be considered superficial and to blame for boosting flavors and high prices. But it succeeds in what is vital to the restaurant. To invite togetherness.

The corner of Bensow House is one of the city’s traditional restaurant addresses. Picture: Rio Gandara / HS