With a monumental dinner the Mary Kambourakiwithin the presence of 10 Gastronomy Journalists on 14-6-2024, the fiftieth anniversary of the operation of its lodge RODS PALACE.
We usually discuss Greek tourism, like the primary Greek business (which is clearly not an business, however a set of various companies) and the issues which have the rationale for over -tourism, however we neglect that it contributes immediately to twenty% of Greek GDP and not directly to 30%, and that it’s a financial exercise that’s in Greece, and that it’s a monetary exercise in Greece, and that it’s an financial exercise in Greece. Starring and has some of the vital model identify … this achievement for over 6 many years has performed a decisive position by pioneers and visionary businessmen-hosts who made nice funding and triggered the nation’s vacationer take-off,
And if within the Sixties the Konstantinos Karamanlis he put the primary bases of tourism with the small hostel In essentially the most stunning positions in Greece, creating the primary infrastructure (roads, airports, improvement of promotion by EOT), in Rhodes Vassilis Kambourakis He was one of many first to begin put up -war the distinctive potential of the island.
Since the Nineteen Twenties, earlier than the Italians left, the destiny of the island was decided and prescribed. The Italians had dreamed of creating Rhodes a vacation image of the Mediterranean and the vacation spot of the worldwide elite. The airport and the port is being constructed, administratives are created (as we speak’s Prefecture, the present city corridor) and vacationer infrastructure (most common of the lodge “Large lodge of the roses“, Today’s Rhodes Casino inbuilt 1927), dozens of archaeological analysis and interventions are being applied within the Medieval City of Rhodes, with essentially the most putting instance being its rebuilding since 1856 broken palace Magist which might now function the residence of Commander de Vekki.
Immediately after World War II and with the union of the Dodecanese with Greece (1947), Rhodes with the passion and exhausting work of the Rhodes and with state assist creates the vacationer miracle of Rhodes. Funded accommodations, created in 1957 Higher School of Tourism Education (the primary in Greece) that really features as a pure lodge college within the requirements of the respective Lausanne Hotel School. Since the Sixties, Rhodes has entered the map of top of the range tourism.
THE Vassilis Kambourakis -Antonis Kambourakis who had enterprise actions in Abyssinia-, self-made lively vendor acquires at Djibouti the Vonel D ‘Europe, and in 1964 he constructed his first lodge Meditate In Rhodes and in 1974 he completes the RODS PALACEa novel lodge for the season. Armies of Civil Engineering are processing methods, unprecedented patents worldwide, the 17 -storey central tower emerges imposing and distinctive within the nation, the massive dome is made with progressive NASA aeronautical supplies, and thus creates one of many largest convention facilities of the Mediterranean.
In December 1988, the RODS PALACE, He goes past his lodge resume and turns into a part of Greek and world historical past as he’s chosen to host, on a proposal by the Foreign Minister Theodore Pangalos, Summit of the European Union. Twelve European leaders amongst them or Margaret Thatcher, the François Mitterrand, the Helmut Col, the Andreas Papandreou and the Konstantinos Karamanlis, They are hosted in two -storey presidential suites constructed on this! The summit is efficiently topped and Rodos Palace’s convention heart turns into a trademark, bringing Rhodes to the world scene.
Nowadays, 50 years later, with the brand new technology on the helm, the Mary and Antonis Kambourakis, Rodos Palace with its 785 rooms and suites, 7 swimming pools, 7 eating places, 5 bars, a spa, a industrial and buying heart and a beautiful seashore on its toes, evolves, and all the time stays in entrance of its time, adhering to the motto of the Patriarch of Roditikis, Vassilis Kamoukis “Every job brings you near the dream, so long as you dream.”
Her menu Rotisserie of the fantastic restaurant, who awakened from the outdated previous and opened just for that exact evening, undertook to arrange with as we speak’s Rodos Palace cooks, Michael and Lefteris Kambourakithe chef Kostas Kambouris, who had been behind the late 80s behind the big lodge occasions.
Famous and beloved all through the island, chef Costas Kabouris, for the delicacy of his dishes, continues to encourage the youthful technology, affluent and lively, lover of outdated and beloved Internasio Kitchen, who knew methods to mix the lobster with a lobster with The entire world was dominated by French delicacies, he at each alternative tried to place his Greek brushes in his dishes.
Dozens of menus and wine lists of this 50 -year interval had been positioned on a bench, and by finding out them you could possibly see the dishes and winemakers of every season. A fabric actually nice to see the tendencies of lodge delicacies lately.
Interesting had been wine lists the place wines and wineries appeared like no, equivalent to Roppa Theotoci, Carras Blanc de Blanc, Robolla Calligas, Cava Cambas whereas there have been additionally nice French wines, equivalent to Sauternes AC Grand Cru, Chablis Premier Cru, Pouily Fume Fume Fume Fume Fume Fume, (Loire), Rieslingtrimbach (Alsace)
The menu introduced in Christofle’s tableware and cutlery was in small bites, a pattern of essentially the most attribute dishes created throughout the fifty years. The occasion was curated by the occasion Eleni Psychoulis, While the music that was heard was additionally a pattern of the identical period.
“The Memory Dinner”
Soup de Homard (lobster soup)
Musseline with scallops, sauce nantoise,
Seafood
Caddale with shrimp, fennel and goat cheese in an anise sauce
Burgundian snails
Shrimp with ouzo sauce
Tamper
Chateaubriand with three sauces
Crepes Suzette
Jams
Apple pudding with caramel sauce
The wines
Chablis 1er cru Vaillons, J.Moreau & Fils
Boutaris – Grande Reserve
Soup de Homard (lobster soup)
Burgundian snails
Seafood
Caddale with shrimp, fennel and goat cheese in an anise sauce
The night ended with recollections of gorgeous previous years and the subsequent evening’s lunch that may embody the trendy creations of the cooks that using it Rhodian gastronomic custom They will supply its trendy variations!
