The Vogue Hotel just reopened its doors in downtown Montreal. The institution, which changed hands in the summer of 2020, has two new restaurant offerings managed by Antonio Park: Restaurant Yama and Cafe Bazin.
Posted at 11:00 am. Updated at 11:00 a.m
With Yama, the Montreal chef opens his first hotel restaurant here. Unlike his other establishments – including the Park in Westmount – the food menu is spread out from dawn to dusk and customers dine there seven days a week. Antonio Park therefore describes the style of cuisine they serve as “international”. , because there are just as many ceviches or tiradito on the menu as there are breakfast croissants or club sandwiches.
The menu was developed in collaboration with chef Konstantin Chakhnov, a Montrealer who returned home after working at restaurants such as Fat Duck in the UK. Yama offers an à la carte menu as well as a tasting menu. There’s also a sushi counter, which Antonio Park prefers to call “Raw Bar” because it also serves all kinds of raw fish, including sushi tacos.
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The menu was created by Antonio Park and Yama’s chef Konstantin Chakhnov.
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The bar has up to 26 seats. Both hotel guests and those passing through the city center are welcome there. We hope to create a connection between travelers and Montrealers.
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The locations, designed by Sid Lee Architecture, are all round.
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In summer the restaurant will have a street terrace. It is therefore equipped with an “air curtain” that allows air conditioning of the interior without wasting fresh outside air.
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The same aesthetic sense is reflected in Café Bazin, Westmount’s first confectionery “franchise”.
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The facility, designed by Sid Lee Architecture, is all curves. These shapes can be found everywhere, from white oak chairs to light fixtures and countertops. This also applies to the large oval bar – built from the same Turkish travertine as the hotel’s reception – which can seat up to 26 people and is not far from the huge cellar.
Yama means “mountain” in Japanese and is a nod to the street of the same name where the Vogue Hotel is located.
At the far end of the lobby is Café Bazin, which could be described as a miniature version of the eponymous eatery in Westmount, where Antonio Park partners with pastry chef Bertrand Bazin. While the original café has more of a bistro offering, the Vogue branch serves more as a take-away counter, offering pastries, pastries, sandwiches and salads.
“We decided to open right next to the reception in case people waiting to check in want a coffee, tea or something before entering the hotel,” Park specifies. Incidentally, the sliding glass doors by Krizet create an interesting connection between the café and the hotel lobby. The place is open daily and remains present even when it closes its doors in the late afternoon: illuminated from within, the glass doors make it a kind of light box.
1425, rue de la Montagne, Montreal