Market By Jean-Georges Vancouver

About Market by Jean-Georges

Market by Jean-Georges is the first restaurant in Canada for three-star Michelin chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten and the signature restaurant of Shangri-La Hotel, Vancouver. Executive Chef Ken Nakano is a homegrown talent who delights guests with sophisticated yet uncomplicated flavours. With a passion and dedication for authentic farm-to-table cuisine, chef Nakano showcases the finest Canadian ingredients from coast to coast. Market is open seven days a week from breakfast through dinner, and is located on the hotel’s third floor, accessible through the hotel or by taking the glass elevator located next to Urban Fare.
About The Muses Dinner at Market by Jean-Georges

Vancouver’s arts enthusiasts are in for a treat at the Vancouver Art Gallery, as it introduces Picasso: The Artist and His Muses, from 11 June to 2 October 2016. As the hotel partner for this milestone exhibition, Shangri-La Hotel, Vancouver is celebrating Picasso’s bold innovations, and similar to the exhibition, looking beyond the artist to the six women who influenced his life and art. Market by Jean-Georges is presenting a series of inspired dinner tasting menus, titled The Muses Dinner.

At the Summerdine dinner on August 10, the focus will be on one of Picasso’s great loves and well-known muses – Marie-Therese Walter. The dinner has been dubbed “A Surrealist Affair”.

According to legend, forty-five-year-old Picasso and seventeen year old Marie-Thérèse Walter met outside Galeries Lafayette in Paris in 1927. Picasso, then still married to Olga, was fascinated by Marie-Thérèse’s Greek profile, encouraging him to return to his earlier studies of classicism and to create the iconic nose silhouette so often associated with his young lover. In 1935 Marie-Thérèse gave birth to their daughter Maya, and by 1936 she had lost her status as Picasso’s preferred mistress.