AGI learns the new Grand Hyatt at MPEL’s Cotai resort City of Dreams will have an open plan Beijing-style dumpling kitchen restaurant on the mezzanine level, with layout designed by the Whiz Kids at award-winning Japanese design house SuperPotato.
We hear it will be a Macau branch of the Made in China restaurant that design house SuperPotato also laid out at the Grand Hyatt Beijing. The eatery will specialise in delicacies from the north of the country.
The Grand Hyatt Macau’s soft opening is due on Tuesday 29th September. Just how soft or hard that opening will be remains to be seen.
AGI understands however that the main ballroom is pretty impressive even by Asian standards. In both ballroom size and in terms of the 800 extra rooms that Grand Hyatt Macau adds to the mix, it should mean City of Dreams is easily capable of bidding for the kind of prestige MICE events such as The International Indian Film Academy Awards (sometimes erroneously referred to as the ‘Bollywood Oscars’—presumably when the copyright lawyers of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences aren’t looking), which The Venetian Macao hosted earlier this year.
According to Melco Crown Entertainment, the Grand Hyatt Macau has 9,000 square meters of meeting space (including a smaller ballroom). All the staff at AGI would have to take their shoes and socks off to count what that is in square feet. If it helps though, the maximum area allowed under FIFA rules for a soccer pitch is 8,250 sq meters.
