Behind the Scenes
Hotel room (photo collection Mark)
ing up to 300 guests and for a seated banquet with a maximum capacity of 150 guests. As Daniel Tylinger, the hotel director, explained, all of the hotel rooms are actually suites. With the average room size is 50 m2 they are among the largest in Prague - even the smallest include a living room and a bedroom. The presidential suite, which is an apartment of 140 m2 with beautiful views of the Prague cityscapes, is the highest ranked suite. Indoor equipment is extremely tasteful, elegant and not at all gaudy. At every step one is accompanied by a pleasant smell, which is a sign of good maintenance. The hotel room or suite - is one of the best hotel experiences of Prague, also because in this hotel nothing is like you are used to anywhere else. One comes to the hotel restaurant Le Grill with good reason. Executive chef Ondrej Korab is one of the younger chefs of the new Czech culinary wave that has gained his knowledge from across the world. As he himself says, he learned the most from Chris Staines in the one Michelin star Foliage restaurant. Later he studied molecular cuisine from TV star Heston Blumenthal. From January 2014 he has been putting all of his knowledge on to the plates as the restaurant chef and the hotel kitchen chef. Dishes coming from his kitchen neither brag nor are boastful, but rather they are Czech-Worldly, colourful and elegant, and sometimes avant-garde. The cuisine is successfully complemented by a broad wine list. Breakfast is the
most beautiful memory for a good start to the day: indigenous, minimalist and sometimes experimental. In the hotel lobby the appetite is immediately roused by the presence of desserts and pastry chef Karolina Kocinova, who joined the team in August, is responsible for them. Karolina’s last post was in the hotel Kempinski Adriatic in Savdurija and these days you’ll find her creations bringing in the Mediterranean flavours – just imagine desserts made of black olives, Istrian truffles and rosemary sorbet. All of this you can taste in the garden, which is not only a cafe, day time restaurant and a Zen corner, but also a real wine cellar with selected wines. Both celebrity chefs are showing the ambition of the owners to create worldclass cuisine in the heart of Prague. We will definitely be hearing much more about both of them. As a rule, luxury hotels must surprise us. The Mark is special because of its timeless elegance. Nothing disturbs the view in every sense; it seems that everything is in its rightful place. With this and with all we have written above, this hotel is proving that this kind of lifestyle is certainly still worth something.
Chef Ondrej Korab (photo collection Mark)
Pastry Chef Karolina Kocinova
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