HOTELIER Magazine 3rd Issue (English) | Page 24

HAYK VEISHTORT Executive Chef SEASONS RESTAURANT You are the executive chef for Seasons Restaurant. Please tell us about the new concept of Armenian cuisine you are trying to bring to the market. rmenian new cuisine is a hybrid of new and old, traditional and innovative! In practice, we cook the endem- ic and purest products that grow in this soil with tech- niques brought from the best restaurants abroad. It is our childhood taste on a new fine dining plate. To cut it short A 24 • HOTELIER • wwww.hoteliermagazine.net • - emotions and finest prod- ucts are cooked intelligently so that to squeeze the finest from the dish. Before coming to Armenia, you worked in Michelin star restaurants in Spain and also in high level restaruants in Russia . Can u please tell us how you decided to come to Armenia? ussia does not have Michelin star restaurants yet, but it was a very good school. In reference to Michelin star restaurants, I have been R to many and have been lucky enough to have experienced formation in Spanish, Danish highest quality restaurants. My decision was made abso- lutely spontaneously. I met the founders of “Seasons” in the restaurant I worked, they made me a partnership offer I could not refuse. When I saw the restaurant, in reality, it caught my heart - I took the challenge and agreed to the offer. What are the main challeng- es of our hospitality and ser-