Experience Blue Ginger As Never Before

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                                                                                                                                    Annie DiGregorio
PR & Marketing
Ming East-West, LLC

781.283.5797
annie@ming.com
                                                                                                                                    www.ming.com

CHEF MING TSAI ANNOUNCES THE EXPANSION OF HIS ACCLAIMED RESTAURANT, BLUE GINGER

 

--Ming Tsai, chef and host of "Simply Ming," renovates and expands his sole restaurant to offer 3 distinct dining options at Blue Ginger--

 

( Boston , MA ) - Get ready for a new, updated Blue Ginger experience. Ming Tsai, chef and owner of Blue Ginger in Wellesley , MA , plans a major renovation and expansion of the award-winning restaurant in its 10th anniversary year, to open in May 2008.

 

Blue Ginger has taken over the former retail space next door to the restaurant, nearly doubling its size. Enhancements include three private dining rooms that can accommodate parties from 10 to 90 people and a 50-seat, walk-in only lounge featuring a 10-stool bar.

 

"I've wanted to expand Blue Ginger for some time -- there's a need not only for private dining but also for more relaxed, casual dining. I'm happy to say we'll be able to provide both with the expansion," says Ming Tsai. The restaurant can now be more accessible for spur-of-the-moment dining or a quick, informal meal."

 

The lounge menu will feature Ming's Bings, Chef Tsai's take on the classic Asian street food xian bing, a hockey puck-shaped potsticker traditionally filled with gingered pork. Diners will be able to enjoy a variety of East-West bings, from vegetarian to Chef Tsai's own take on the hamburger. "I remember enjoying xian bings in Taipei when I was a kid, and I'm excited to bring that experience to Blue Ginger. When I was considering the new lounge, my first thought was to do a burger bar, which is a trend that's here to stay, but doing Ming's Bings really brings together the East and the West for me."

 

Ming Tsai has teamed with Rockwell Group to design this latest incarnation of Blue Ginger. One of the most acclaimed architectural design firms, Rockwell Group’s work includes the international expansion of Nobu, Adour Alain Ducasse at The St. Regis New York, and Maze ( London ). R. P. Valois & Company will be responsible for the build-out.

 

Just as when Blue Ginger first opened in 1998, Chef Tsai consulted with a Feng Shui Master to continue the good chi (energy) that flows throughout the restaurant. "I'm a great believer in surrounding yourself with positive energy, and practicing good Feng Shui helps to keep that balance," says Chef Tsai. "We're very proud and grateful to mark our ten-year anniversary of Blue Ginger in 2008. This addition seemed like a fitting way to celebrate that and say 'thank you' to our customers."

 

The newly expanded Blue Ginger is set to debut in May 2008. Blue Ginger will close for approximately 10 days before the grand opening. Call the restaurant at 781.283.5790 for details.

 

 

About Ming Tsai and Blue Ginger

Ming Tsai opened Blue Ginger on February 10, 1998. That year, Blue Ginger received 3 stars from the Boston Globe, was named "Best New Restaurant" by Boston Magazine and was nominated by the James Beard Foundation as "Best New Restaurant 1998." Ming was also named "Chef the Year 1998" by Esquire Magazine. Since then, the James Beard Foundation awarded Ming ‘2002 Best Chef Northeast’ and, for the last five years,  Zagat Restaurant Guide has rated Blue Ginger as the "2nd Most Popular Boston Restaurant." In 2007, Blue Ginger received the prestigious Ivy Award from Restaurants & Institutions for its consistent achievement in meeting the highest standards for food, hospitality and service. Ming, an Emmy Award winner, currently hosts and is executive producer of the public television cooking show "Simply Ming." Classic episodes of "Ming’s Quest" and "East Meets West with Ming Tsai" air weekly on Fine Living Network. Ming is the author of three cookbooks: Blue Ginger, Simply Ming, and Ming’s Master Recipes and is the host of a weekly "Simply Ming" vodcast, offering tips and tutorials on everything from filleting fish to decanting wine. Ming is a national spokesperson for FAAN (Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network) and is proud to have developed the Food Allergy Reference Book, first used at Blue Ginger, a pioneering system that creates safeguards to help food-allergic people dine safely. For more information, please visit www.ming.com.

 

About Rockwell Group

Founded more than 20 years ago by David Rockwell, Rockwell Group is an award winning, cross-disciplinary 220-person architecture and design practice based in New York . Rockwell Group specializes in hospitality, culture, theater, film and product design.  Projects include the JetBlue Airways terminal at John F. Kennedy Airport; the Elinor Bunin-Munroe Film Center at Lincoln Center; Ames hotel (Boston) ; Chambers hotel and Town restaurant (New York); W New York and W Union Square; the Kodak Theatre, home of the Academy Awards ceremony (Los Angeles); the Broadway musicals “Hairspray,” “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels,” and “Legally Blonde”; and numerous restaurants around the globe including Nobu Fifty Seven, Country, Bar American, Café Gray in New York; Nobu (Hong Kong, Dallas, Dubai), Xen in Tokyo’s Roppongi Hills, and Gordon Ramsay’s Maze (London).  His monograph, Pleasure: The Architecture and Design of Rockwell Group, was published by Universe, a division of Rizzoli Books in 2002.  Spectacle, a book with Bruce Mau, was published by Phaidon Press in October 2006.  For more information, please visit www.rockwellgroup.com.

   About R. P. Valois & Company

  R. P. Valois & Company is a Design Build contracting firm with twenty-five years of e experience providing high quality residential and commercial construction services. The company has received rewards for its work by Remodeling Magazine, The National Association of Home Builders Remodelers Council, The New Bedford Preservation Society, W.H.A.L.E. (Waterfront Historic Area League) and Rhode Island Monthly Magazine.  For more information, please visit www.rpvalois.com

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