Rhodes Mezzanine revamps its menu

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While in town for last month's Taste of Dubai festival, international celebrity chef Gary Rhodes paid a visit to his Rhodes Mezzanine restaurant at Grosvenor House Dubai to check on the progress of the outlet, which opened last September.

"The restaurant's been well received so far. We've been doing some good numbers every evening, so I'm very happy with that," Rhodes told Caterer Middle East.

"I had to start off very simple because it was a brand new team - except for Paul Lupton, [the chef at Rhodes Mezzanine] and the sous chef Tom Edgerton, who had both worked in Rhodes restaurants previously - and I couldn't make things overly difficult.

"It's only now that we're having the opportunity to start taking the menu on to another level," he explained.

"I realised that while we would've been able to achieve the standard, we certainly wouldn't have been able to maintain it. But now I believe that they can. They're doing very well and we can move on."

In order to help drive the restaurant to that new level Rhodes, together with head chef of London's Michelin-starred restaurant Rhodes Twenty Four, Adam Gray, worked on 10 new additions for the à la carte menu.

"We will be introducing the new dishes at the beginning of March," Rhodes revealed.

"I've had Paul [Lupton] practicing and practicing them and then they'll be introduced on the menu full time. It's about taking it on to another level and another level, until I've got the menu where I really want it to be."

While Rhodes did not rule out the possibility of opening another restaurant in the region at some point in the future, he said that his priority at present would be to concentrate on perfecting the Rhodes Mezzanine offering.

"I'd love to [open another restaurant in Dubai] but I don't want to jump the gun. I think that [another restaurant] will only be borne from the success of what we already have," he explained.

"At the end of our first year we can take a look at things and if we think that we're in a position to move on, then we will. But if I still think for one minute that we're not quite there, or that we haven't quite achieved what I want, then we'll wait," he added.

"It's got to be right; otherwise it's a pointless exercise."

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