Swire Hotels opens restaurant division

HONG KONG Swire Hotels will launch Swire Restaurants a division to manage the company’s stand-alone restaurants. The restaurants include Plat du Jour, Public and Ground Public in Quarry Bay and The Continental in Pacific Place and the forthcoming Mr & Mrs Fox. Mr & Mrs Fox is Swire Restaurants’ newest stand-alone restaurant targeted to open in August. It is a modern steakhouse and neighborhood hangout, located over three floors in the recently launched Taikoo Place Apartments on 23 Tong Chong Street, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong. inside no 6Mr & Mrs Fox is a 250-seat multi-level bar and restaurant with a craft beer house at street level, raw bar and steakhouse on the first floor and private dining room with its own terrace in the attic. Swire Hotels manages individual hotels in Hong Kong, Mainland China, the United Kingdom and the US. The company’s first hotel, The Opposite House in Beijing, opened in 2008 and was followed by The Upper House, Hong Kong, and then by EAST, Hong Kong and EAST, Beijing. The Temple House in Chengdu is due to open in Q2 2015 and EAST, Miami in Q4 2015. sourced:traveldailynews.asia