Fabrizio Fiorani and Gin Mare Host Dessert Dinners at BOCA Dubai

In June 2021, Carpigiani partnered with BOCA restaurant in Dubai and Gin Mare for a special dinner curated by pastry chef Fabrizio Fiorani, named Asia’s Best Pastry Chef in 2019. It was his first visit to Dubai to serve a dessert menu.

The event

The limited-seating dinners ran on Monday 7 and Tuesday 8 June 2021, from 7:30 pm, and cost AED 445++ per person. Guests enjoyed six savoury sharing dishes, seven desserts and five Gin Mare cocktails. The evening was co-hosted by an official partner of The World’s 50 Best Restaurants and Gin Mare, with support from Valrhona Chocolate and Carpigiani, and Fiorani was flown in via the UAE travel token network Tratok.

Fiorani is pastry chef at The Bulgari Tokyo and The Bulgari Osaka, including Ristorante Luca Fantin in Tokyo, ranked No. 18 in Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants in 2019.

The menu

• Savoury courses: prepared by BOCA head chef Matthijs Stinnissen, in regular and vegetarian versions. Dishes included seared Hokkaidō scallop with beef pancetta, salicornia and aged celeriac purée, smoked eel and beetroot with Valencian oranges and Jerez glaze, and slow-roasted aubergine with date dibs, crumbled Shankleesh cheese and tahina.
• Desserts: seven creations including Gin-Yuzu Boule, Tiramisù Sunglasses and Real Fake Peanuts.
• Cocktails: five Gin Mare serves by Patrick Pistolesi of Rome, owner of Drink Kong (No. 45 in The World’s 50 Best Bars).
• Carpigiani at work: Fiorani used a 161 T G SP soft serve machine to make a signature frozen cocktail with Gin Mare.

Bring it to your business in Australia

Frozen cocktails and plated desserts show how a soft serve machine can earn its place in a restaurant or bar, not only in a dessert shop. Explore Carpigiani soft serve machines, or see how our foodservice solutions can add a frozen dessert menu to your venue.

Source: Carpigiani news. Rewritten for Australia by Majors Group.