Flower Drum has been a Melbourne institution for over four decades. It is consistently considered one of Australia’s top restaurants, offering elegant and luxurious Cantonese cuisine. Flower drum combines the attentive service and standards of a contemporary Australian Cantonese restaurant with the traditional aesthetics and flavours of a Chinese Cantonese restaurant. The current menu remains a formidable contender on the world stage. It includes barramundi rendered noodles, a seafood xiao long bao, and an artfully presented Peking duck. Flower Drum relies on the B+S Black range to ensure it maintains its status and quality. The B+S Black range is perfect for them, not only because of the uniform size and design of the products, but because it keeps up with the demands of the kitchen. The B+S Black range also offers the patented burner pilot integration that allows for the use of HiPac woks, a staple of Cantonese cuisine.
Tian 38, translated into ‘Shop 38’, fuses the industrial style of modern Melbourne with Imperial elements of traditional China. The sleek, elegant and luxurious space features three main areas: the main dining area, VIP rooms and a bar. The menu, inspired by popular dishes from South Asia, is full of the traditional flavours of Cantonese cuisine; it isn’t entirely traditional but still familiar. Although only newly opened, Tian 38’s Hainanese chicken rice has already been dubbed by some as the best in Melbourne. Tian 38’s tribute to Chinese flavours, whilst being inspired by the modernity of Melbourne, allows for a deliciously unique dining experience. Tian 38 utilises a combination of B+S ranges to ensure that each product has a place in the kitchen. B+S’ K+ Range offers a duck oven that is not only compact but produces the perfect traditional roast duck, often seen hanging in the windows of Chinese restaurants. This was combined with B+S Black range cookers; fitted with the patented burner pilot that allows integration of Hipac woks.
Dining at Sushi Jiro is an experience in itself. The brightly lit restaurant exudes an air of fun and joy, and features a conveyor, or ‘train’, that sits in the centre of the restaurant and carries dishes around to the diners, for them to pick and choose to their liking. The crafting of the dishes themselves is based on the teachings of Japanese masters. The sushi restaurant has quickly become a favourite throughout Melbourne. Each roll is carefully handcrafted and uses quality ingredients. Sushi Jiro has combined modern creativity with traditional sushi practices to offer beautiful sushi creations. The nature of the restaurant requires a kitchen that can handle a high volume, as food litreally flies off the shelf and needs to be constantly replenished. As a result, Sushi Jiro needed B+S Commercial Kitchen’s Verro Range. It is the first of its kind in the market, designed for the performance and flexibility of a demanding kitchen. Moreover, the range features a combination of European and Asian appliances, perfect for an Asian restaurant in a Western setting.
Yu Kitchen, a creative masterpiece of a dining experience, was the product of a collaboration between Malaysia’s The Oriental & Ruyi Group and Australia’s Calia Collective. Located above Chadstone’s Calia, Yu Kitchen’s menu was directed by 2-Michelin-starred chef Chen Kentaro. Yu Kitchen utilises B+S Commercial Kitchen’s K+ Range of commercial kitchen equipment. Its exceptional value and compactness made it perfect for enhancing Yu Kitchen’s performance. The luxurious restaurant offers both Chinese Yum Cha and a la carte dining, fusing both modern and traditional Chinese cuisine in their menu. Both the Yum Cha and a la carte menus feature a cornucopia of options, ranging from traditional steamed dumplings to baked black truffle and Wagyu beef puffs, to Heavenly Swans filled with White Lotus Paste. Yu Kitchen encourages its diners to explore the possibilities of traditional Chinese cuisine in a modern world.