By Bikramjit Ray
THE LEELA Ambience Gurgaon Hotel and Residences is well known for its quality of F&B. In an effort to grow brand value and of course make full use of the Mall that it is constructed atop, the hotel has recently started a small pastry outlet, the Leela Patisserie at the Ambience Mall, where it sells the hotels confectionary products.
The outlet, which is opposite the TM Lewin showroom, has a few tables and around half a dozen chairs, but aims also to get the shopper to buy and take home or wander around the mall with the cakes, pastries, breads and fine chocolates on display. Michel Koopman, General Manager of the Leela Ambience Gurgaon Hotel and Residences (see photo) told this reporter that he expected to make Rs 1.5 Crores from the outlet in its first year. The shop is the first such offering by the hotel.
With two brilliant confectionary masters, pastry chefs Pablo Moralis and Partha Bose, in their kitchen, the only place you could taste their products would be at one of the hotel’s legendary buffet spreads.
While the current avatar of the outlet promises a whole range of products from single origin chocolates to specialty cakes and pastries and of course freshly baked breads, Koopma told this reporter that much more was in store. The passage which connects the hotel to the mall, according to Koopman is being developed to become a larger outlet with seating. ’It will have glass walls and have all our confectionery products and much more,’ he said. The sky was the limit and even a champagne service was in the works. There is no timeframe yet as to when things will get moving, but one things for sure, it will be the NCR’s sweet spot.
The author is Executive Editor at BW Hotelier.
THE LEELA Ambience Gurgaon Hotel and Residences is well known for its quality of F&B. In an effort to grow brand value and of course make full use of the Mall that it is constructed atop, the hotel has recently started a small pastry outlet, the Leela Patisserie at the Ambience Mall, where it sells the hotels confectionary products.
The outlet, which is opposite the TM Lewin showroom, has a few tables and around half a dozen chairs, but aims also to get the shopper to buy and take home or wander around the mall with the cakes, pastries, breads and fine chocolates on display. Michel Koopman, General Manager of the Leela Ambience Gurgaon Hotel and Residences (see photo) told this reporter that he expected to make Rs 1.5 Crores from the outlet in its first year. The shop is the first such offering by the hotel.
With two brilliant confectionary masters, pastry chefs Pablo Moralis and Partha Bose, in their kitchen, the only place you could taste their products would be at one of the hotel’s legendary buffet spreads.
While the current avatar of the outlet promises a whole range of products from single origin chocolates to specialty cakes and pastries and of course freshly baked breads, Koopma told this reporter that much more was in store. The passage which connects the hotel to the mall, according to Koopman is being developed to become a larger outlet with seating. ’It will have glass walls and have all our confectionery products and much more,’ he said. The sky was the limit and even a champagne service was in the works. There is no timeframe yet as to when things will get moving, but one things for sure, it will be the NCR’s sweet spot.
The author is Executive Editor at BW Hotelier.
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