Floating above the shimmering tides of the Andaman Sea on Kalim Bay in Phuket, L'Arome By The Sea may not look like much from its exteriors. But this is 2022, and it's all about inner beauty. From the moment you enter the fine dining restaurant with its soothing blue hues and French windows offering blue-on-blue as far as the eye can see, a sea of calm washes over you. These are seafront seats to contemporary French cuisine, with touches of Swiss, by chef Yannick Hollenstein.
Having grown up in the Swiss Alps, Hollenstein inserts his "DNA" into the food. "French food is always a bit too predictable and a bit boring. At L'Arome we try to use French techniques with ingredients that are the best we can find. I won't call it fusion, we just use the best to add flavour. I always like to work with colour and my goal is to work only in monochrome because the same colour profile matches the flavour. Our philosophy is to create something that's really interesting, with variety and surprising elements," says the chef.
