On Wednesday, Apr 18th, Redress launched The EcoChic Design Award China 2012 at Downstairs of the URBN Hotel, aimed to educate emerging fashion designers contribute to the environmental protection. It was a great pleasure for the Hotel and Downstairs to sponsor such a truly significant launch ceremony. Most importantly, The URBN Hotel and Redress both possess a deep understanding of the underlying environment impacts embedded into our daily life.  

The award is supported by a number of high profile personalities from the fashion industry. Zhuzhu, a famous actress was present at the event as the award ambassador, posing with other fashion designers give a toast for pictures.

慈善组织“缮·Redress”近日在上海雅悦酒店Downstairs启动了可持续时尚设计大赛——衣酷适再生时尚设计2012。作为上海第一家碳中性酒店，我们很荣幸能一同参与此次活动并给予大力支持。尤其是上海雅悦酒店与“缮·Redress”共同秉持创造可持续发展的生活体验，减少可能对环境产生的不良影响，以环保和可持续带动行业的未来发展。

本次大赛同时获得了许多时尚界高端人士的支持，并请来了兼具演员等多重身份的朱珠担任本次活动的大使。

图为：朱珠与时尚界人士共同举杯，预祝本次大赛圆满成功。

Downstairs with David Laris Unveils New Private Dining Room, The Garden Bar

For immediate release: March 14, 2012

Shanghai, China – Downstairs with David Laris announces the opening of The Garden Bar, Chef Siobhan Gough’s private dining room. Tucked behind URBN Hotel’s tranquil, bamboo-lined terrace, The Garden Bar brings together the simple, rustic design elements of the restaurant, with a sophisticated menu from Chef Siobhan, for a unique premium dining experience.

Within this intimate space, guests will enjoy a five to six-course ‘feasting’ menu that celebrates some of the most classic traditions from the golden era of dining – beautiful meats carved tableside, silver service, crepes flambéed live, and oysters shucked fresh to order. The Garden Bar offers Shanghai diners an exciting way to celebrate food and the joy of dining, all within a setting that is lovely yet comfortable. Dedicated service staff are on-hand to ensure every need is taken care of.

With its own private bar area, guests can enjoy cigars, a pre-dinner cocktail, or an after-dinner digestive, all served exclusively by a dedicated private bartender. Select from our extensive international wine list or try on of Downstairs’ signature ‘farm-to-glass’ cocktails.

Says Chef Siobhan, “With my new private dining room, I’m excited to be able to focus on the convivial nature of dining and the feast-like atmosphere that we’re able to create in a private setting. It’s a place where great groups of friends, colleagues and families can get together and enjoy themselves.”

The Garden Bar seats up to 16 people within its intimate space and is the perfect location to entertain guests for birthdays, anniversaries, wine dinners, business lunches and more. Food and drink menus can be tailored for each event. Additional services are also able, such as personalized invites and menus or customizes flower arrangements. For multi-purpose events, please inquire with our staff on combining use of The Garden Bar other areas within the hotel (The Social private lounge or Upstairs champagne terrace).

~~~

For restaurant inquires or to make a booking for a private event, please contact Events Manager Linda Xiao at linda@urbnhotels.com or (21) 5172. 1300.

For media inquiries regarding Downstairs with David Laris or Siobhan Gough, please contact Christina Kao at ckao@davidlariscreates.com.

We are proud to present our latest URBN promo video, filmed by highly talented Luis Tapia of Daedalum Films. Click on “MORE” below to watch it now.

Want to see more of what URBN has to offer? Check out our awesome commercial that showcases China’s first carbon-neutral hotel by clicking here.

We are proud to present our latest URBN commercial, filmed by highly talented Luis Tapia of Daedalum Films. Click on “MORE” below to watch it now.

Want to see more of what URBN has to offer? Check out this promotional video by highly talented Luis Tapia of Daedalum Films that showcases China’s first carbon-neutral hotel by clicking here.

To RSVP please contact our events manager at linda@urbnhotels.com

To check out the menu, click here.

URBN Hotels and Downstairs with David Laris are proud to announce our participation in Earth Hour 2012. Join us at our restaurant for dinner on March, 31st where we will be turning out the lights in the restaurant for one hour starting at 8:30pm. Included in the price of a three-course dinner (278RMB) will be the individual donation of a tree in your name to Roots & Shoots’ Million Tree Project, a goal to stop the desertification in Inner Mongolia and help offset China’s greenhouse emissions.

Part of a massive campaign sweeping from east to west across the globe, Earth Hour has started a global revolution in building a movement for change. In more than 5,200 cities across 135 countries, Earth Hour is aimed at bringing global awareness to key environmental issues. Now in its sixth year, the annual lights-out event has grown from a single-city initiative in 2007 to the world’s largest display of environmental action.

Come join us in this global celebration of the one thing that unites us all – the planet!

WHAT: 6th annual Earth Hour

WHEN: 7:30pm seating on March 31st, 2012, lights will go out at 8:30pm

WHERE: Downstairs with David Laris at URBN Hotel

WHY: To make aware the issues of the environment and to join forces in fighting for a better, cleaner home: Earth.



Green Drinks China Movie Night @ URBN Hotel

Plant a tree, one movie at a time

Shanghai, China – March 6, 2012 – URBN Hotel in collaboration with Green Drinks China will be hosting their second Movie Night on Thursday, March 22^rd at 6:30pm.  For this event geared to invoke environmentalism, URBN will be showing Plastic Planet, a documentary depicting the growing threat plastics have become for both the environment as well as human health.

Guests can enjoy this stimulating movie in the comfort of the hotel’s intimate Social Lounge on the 4^th floor of URBN Hotel.  Complimentary popcorn as well as food and drink specials will be available throughout the evening, accompanied by an open-table discussion after the movie that will surely have everyone talking!  Seats are limited, so reserve your spot now at info@greendrinkschina.org.

Tickets are 35rmb per person, which will include popcorn and food and drink specials as well as a tree donated in your name to Roots and Shoots’ Million Tree Project.  At the conclusion of the movie, there will be a short discussion about the movie as well as any other pertinent topics that come up.

When: Thursday, March 22nd at 6:30pm

Where: Social Lounge, 4^th floor of URBN Hotel

183 Jiaozhou Road, close to Xinzha Road

tel: 5153-4600

Cover: 35RMB includes admission, popcorn and drink specials. URBN will also plant a tree in each guest’s name to Roots and Shoots’ Million Tree Project.

Plastic Planet Synopsis:

Werner Boote presents an up-close and personal view of the controversial and fascinating material that has found its way into every facet of our daily lives: plastic. He takes us on a journey around the globe, showing that plastics have become a threat for both environment and human health.

About the Million Tree Project

Through the Million Tree Project (“MTP”), Shanghai R&S encourages individuals and organizations to firstly minimize their negative environmental impact by polluting less, and then improve their positive environmental impact by planting trees in the desertified lands of Inner Mongolia. The previously lush landscape of Kulun Qi, Inner Mongolia is now a rapidly expanding desert due to a combination of the greenhouse effect and irresponsible exploitation of the land such as overgrazing and over-farming. Desertification causes serious sandstorms that strike Inner Mongolia and its surrounding areas each spring, destroying local homes and forcing many people to flee their native land.

Concerned citizens can proactively slow desertification and fight global warming by donating and planting trees through the MTP. This project also encompasses true capacity building as the local population of Kulun Qi is intimately involved with, and benefits from, every step of planting, maintaining, and monitoring the trees. As such, the MTP improves both the environment and local economy of Kulun Qi.

The MTP goal is to plant one million trees by 2014. As of 2011, 600,000 trees have been planted and have demonstrated an impressive survival rate of over 84%.

Downstairs with David Laris and our very own Irish chef Siobhán Gough are proud to be part of the Féile Shanghai Ireland Festival 2012. Supported by the Irish Consulate General of Shanghai and Bord Bia, the Irish Food Board, the festival is Shanghai’s celebration of all things Irish.

In honour of the festival, Chef Siobhán has created a set of Irish-inspired menus that will be exclusively available at Downstairs during Ireland Week. Siobhán and the team at Downstairs will be working closely with Bord Bia to host a series of media and industry events during the week that will highlight Irish cuisine and specialty Irish food products.

Showcasing well-known artisan goods from Ireland as well as boutique brands, Chef Siobhán will be creating modern interpretations of traditional Irish fare, in addition to some delightful new dishes. “I will definitely be going beyond the usual ‘lamb stew and potatoes’ style dishes that people tend to think of when it comes to Irish cuisine. I am looking forward to introducing beautiful Irish products in interesting and new ways. Classics will be modernised without losing soul,” says Chef Siobhán.

Specialty Irish menu items that guests can look forward to will include:

Seafood soup with cockles and mussels

Organic Irish salmon pate with dillisk soda bread

Buttered brown crab with spring garlic and brown bread

Pork terrine with apple and plum chutney

Rabbit rillettes with pickles and toast

Knockanore BLT sliders with organic smoked bacon and Ballymaloe relish

Potted leeks with crubeen jelly

Gooseberry fool with hazelnut biscuits

Coolea with Mileeven pure Irish honey

Guinness cake with fudge icing

A series of events will be featured throughout Féile festival week, culminating in a gala St Patrick’s Day recovery brunch on Sunday, 18^th March. Guinness will be on tap in our back Garden Bar and plenty of handcrafted cocktails will be available. Ryan Noreiks will be creating an Irish-inspired drinks menu that will feature a variety of premium Irish liqueurs, spirits and seasonal, local ingredients.

Says David Laris, “We’re excited to partner with Bord Bia and participate in Ireland Week this year. With Siobhán in the kitchen at Downstairs, it was a natural fit for us to take this opportunity to celebrate Irish cuisine. Ireland is a country with its own unique history of food culture, as well as exciting new artisan products that are gaining more attention in today’s culinary industry. To be able to introduce some of the latest in Irish cuisine to the Shanghai market is really exciting for our team, and we know that diners here will be delighted with what Siobhán has created.”

Féile bia!

For more information, to make a booking for a private event during Ireland Week or to guarantee lunch or dinner reservations, please contact General Manager Fergus MacDougall at fergus@urbnhotels.com or (21) 5172.1300.

For media inquiries regarding Downstairs with David Laris or Siobhán Gough, please contact Christina Kao at ckao@davidlariscreates.com.

Check out Downstairs’ amazing special for lovers and daters

888 RMB
includes 2 appetizers, 2 mains, 2 deserts,
mignardises and a bottle of wine.
one lucky couple who order the lover’s prix fixe special
will be automatically entered to win a complimentary room night
at URBN within the month of February.

Don’t let these delicacies and a romantic night at URBN slip through your fingers.

Four Course menu

Dill cured golden trout, apple, olive oil and baby cucumber
*
Truffled mushroom soup with parmesan crisp
*
Lamb rack with organic grains, buttered Spring vegetables, rosemary jus
or
Sea bass with cauliflower cream risotto, trout roe, capers
*
Orange and cardamom soufflé with hazelnuts and rose syrup

Petit mignardise

]]> http://www.urbnhotels.com/blog/join-us-for-a-romantic-valentines-day-6.html/feed 1