Dinner at the top
A new Hungarian chef brings a world view to a hotel restaurant with a great city view, Liu Zhihua reports. Liu Zhihua
People come to a restaurant for the food, but at China Grill, one of the highest restaurants in the country, diners also come for the breathtaking views. Atop the 66th floor of Park Hyatt Beijing in the heart of Beijing's CBD, the restaurant under a glass pyramid gives diners a feeling of sitting above the clouds, with a 360-degree bird's-eye view of the Chinese capital. The most remarkable architecture of Beijing, viewed from a dizzyingly height of 249 meters above the ground, looks like orderly assembled children's blocks.
On a clear day, the view might seem to extend to Hungary, homeland of the restaurant's new head chef, Szabolcs Diviki. A master of French cuisine, the 35-year-old was born in Budapest and entered the culinary profession at age 15, a dream that budded while he helped his parents on the farm and in the kitchen as a young boy.
