VANCOUVER — On August 21, San Francisco’s Birdsong restaurant team helmed by award-winning chef Chris Bleidorn will visit Vancouver’s Botanist restaurant, located inside Fairmont Pacific Rim, for a multi-course collaboration dinner experience with chef Hector Laguna. For one night only, the chefs will join forces on a tasting menu that fuses Birdsong’s cuisine — which emphasizes seasonality and the use of whole ingredients — with Laguna’s innovative and creative approach to the botany of the Pacific Northwest.
Chef Bleidorn and his team will profile an amuse and three of his signature creations from the Birdsong kitchen while chef Laguna will feature three Botanist dishes, followed by a pre-dessert by Birdsong’s chef Zoee Wong, and dessert by Botanist’s pastry chef, Kate Siegel, accompanied by two cocktails and wine pairings. Menu highlights from Bleidorn include marinated seaweeds from the Vancouver and Mendocino coasts served alongside local halibut, as well as the sea-urchin cream puff with savoury butterscotch filling, and from Laguna, sweet corn and truffles, and grilled black lamb with black-garlic mole.
“Chef Bleidorn’s approach to ingredient-driven cuisine is something I’ve admired for years,” says Laguna. “We share a core ethos which is deeply rooted in celebrating and supporting local purveyors through the dishes we create.” “There’s such a wonderful alignment between Birdsong and Botanist, as the source of our pristine ingredients is right in our backyard — the Pacific Northwest,” says Bleidorn. “We’re very excited to come to Vancouver for this collaboration.”
These collaborations are part of an ongoing series at Fairmont Pacific Rim, which aim to provide unrivaled, immersive culinary experiences in partnership with renowned restaurants and bars from around the world. The illustrious lineup of past collaborations with the world’s best bars and restaurants includes Katana Kitten and Overstory (New York), Hanky Panky and Baltra Bar (Mexico City), Lazy Bear and True Laurel (San Francisco), Alo and Quetzal (Toronto), Published on Main and L’Abattoir (Vancouver), and Marilena (Victoria).
