Michelin-starred chef and California native, John Fraser, will helm 5 of The Tampa EDITION’s ideas: Lilac, Azure at EDITION, Market at EDITION, Foyer Bar and Pool Bar. The opening marks the debut of EDITION’s fifteenth property worldwide, and Tampa’s first-ever 5 star resort. The resort will usher in a brand new technology for this burgeoning vacation spot as a part of Water Road Tampa, a $3.5 billion city mission reworking town. Highlights to incorporate:
- 172 spacious guestrooms and 38 non-public residences
- An expansive rooftop terrace and pool deck, a first-of-its-kind for Tampa
- Quite a few distinctive bars, eating places and nightlife ideas, together with signature venues from Michelin-starred Chef John Fraser
- Luxurious spa and health middle
- Elegant and refined design concepted by ISC Design Studio in partnership with Morris Adjmi Architects, Bonetti Kozerski Architects, and Roman and Williams
The arrival of The Tampa EDITION additional boosts town’s rise and cements the EDITION model’s knack for touchdown in the best place on the proper time. The five-star resort and residences have been masterminded and created by Ian Schrager, in collaboration with Marriott Worldwide.
Michelin-star vibes arrive in downtown Tampa
“Not typically have I had the chance to work on a mission that can utterly remodel the very middle and heartbeat of an excellent metropolis like Tampa, and make it even larger,” mentioned Ian Schrager, the visionary pioneer of the boutique resort idea and the EDITION creator. “I name it city enlargement, reasonably than city renewal, and it serves as a mannequin for the way cities will remodel and evolve the long run. The dimensions of it’s mind-boggling and we’re very pleased to be proper right here and part of it.”
Tampa EDITION will embody a number of eating places helmed by Michelin-starred chef and California native, John Fraser. Open from Tuesday to Saturday, the eating room’s walnut flooring and the nice and cozy glow from the pendant globes create an elevated, convivial house centered round an eight-seat Christian Liaigre chef’s counter in sandblasted walnut and a energetic open kitchen. Taking its cues from Fraser’s Greek heritage, the delicacies at Lilac highlights regionally sourced and seasonal components showcasing distinctive flavors and strategies via an Japanese Mediterranean lens. Friends obtain a prix fixe menu, starting with hors d’oeuvres to share adopted by three programs of their selection. Signature dishes embody regionally sourced Grouper cooked in a cataplana, Quick Rib cooked on a rotisserie, and Herbed Pasta with a tender egg and sherry-braised chanterelle mushrooms.
EDITION brings European aesthetics to Tampa, Florida
“It’s all the time an honor to collaborate with the EDITION. We share the same tradition and are each eager on providing trendy luxurious and prime quality. Ian Schrager is a genius at offering the stage and setting the spirit and tone. We’re grateful to him and the resort’s possession for constantly investing in the perfect. Via nice hospitality, structure, and design, we try for our visitors to really feel as if they’ve arrived at a sanctuary the place they by no means have to go away. We look ahead to being part of Ian’s imaginative and prescient via our meals and beverage choices – with one thing for everybody throughout all components of the day,” says Fraser.
Schrager continues: “John Fraser has created signature eating places for us at The West Hollywood EDITION and The Instances Sq. EDITION – each of that are amazingly profitable. Acknowledged as top-of-the-line cooks on the earth, his well being and wellbeing-focused cooking model is suitable, not only for Florida’s local weather, but it surely additionally suits into Water Road’s wellness ideas. It is a nice alternative to convey a world class, internationally acknowledged, Michelin star chef to Tampa.”
Fraser can also be behind the ideas of the resort’s different meals and beverage retailers, together with Market. Situated on the other aspect of the foyer to Lilac, Market makes probably the most of its streetside nook spot, with a personal backyard oasis good for alfresco eating on Water Road that flows seamlessly into the inside of the restaurant. Right here, the intense and ethereal all-day eating house includes a scalloped white oak and Calcutta marble espresso and pastry bar, which sits adjoining to an off-the-cuff, convivial eating house. Market’s menu has an Italian trattoria aptitude, with recent pizzas rising from the open hatch behind the zinc bar, alongside mild, wholesome, informal, and ingredient-driven classics.
A magic expertise inside Tampa’s new 5-star resort
Unfolding like a four-act theatrical piece, the resort includes a collection of areas and experiences every including as much as a complete greater than the sum of its particular person components. The second ground – accessed by way of the sculptural staircase – introduces a wide range of dramatic and distinctive areas that work collectively or individually. Evoking previous Hollywood glamour, Punch Room, is a comfy, muted house accented with wealthy jewel-toned shades of emerald and sapphire.
Good-looking walnut wall paneling creates a European gentleman’s club-like really feel that’s enhanced by Pierre Chareau alabaster wall sconces, a flickering double-sided fire, bright-blue George Smith furnishings, Rojo Alicante marble tables and a cognac marble bar backed by a softly lit smoky vintage mirror. Preferrred for a sedate pre-dinner cocktail or a conversational nightcap, the venue’s idea is impressed by Gasparilla, a fictitious pirate, and a well-liked determine in Tampa’s folklore. The distinctive cocktail menu focuses on the West Indies, highlighting aged spirits, spices, teas and tropical fruits in drinks similar to The Black Pearl and The Tampa Punch, alongside elevated bar snacks.
Arts Membership combines a trio of areas that come collectively in a glamorous providing that has elevated Tampa’s leisure scene. Begin your night within the Lounge, with a cocktail and a few mild bites in opposition to a seductive backdrop of ebonized wooden, black damask velvet sofas, black leather-based banquettes and – only for enjoyable – a specifically commissioned photobooth in black lacquer with a gold inside. From there, the Verde Antico marble bar noir, with its luminescent yellow velvet stools within the bar space, is the right precursor earlier than a night of leisure within the finale, Arts Membership Cabaret. That includes an natural undulating ceiling of 350 mirrored balls of varied sizes and theatrical ruby purple velvet material, this Radio Metropolis Music Corridor-inspired house will play host to a roster of entertainers with spectacular results.
EDITION provides high tier wellness facility on web site
Additionally on the second ground and the mezzanine stage above, is the 250-guest non-public occasion house and a collection of assembly rooms – together with two studios and a boardroom – which all come full with high expertise, together with electronically managed black-out blinds and lightweight filtering window therapies, retractable partitions to accommodate occasions of all sizes, and a considerate inside design scheme of white oak and travertine particulars, leading to a vibrant, trendy and ethereal providing.
The design of the wellness facility, additionally on stage two, is simply as recent. The reception space – with its curved white oak and marble-topped desk and gold leaf accent wall behind – is flanked on both aspect by arches, which result in an all-white co-ed leisure space and 6 therapy rooms. The spa’s idea is impressed by wellness and sustainability and presents a menu of therapies from Biologique Recherche Skinlab facials to the EDITION Signature Therapeutic massage.
In a primary for Tampa, and in contrast to something town has seen earlier than, The Rooftop is the place to see and be seen, and actually has all of it. Situated on stage 9, slightly below the residences, the realm includes Azure at EDITION – a restaurant overseen by chef John Fraser – and a sprawling pool membership with cabanas for day and evening, open to resort visitors and residences solely, and accessible both by way of the restaurant, or its personal entrance. Right here, swathes of travertine create a impartial backdrop for a trimming of lush landscaping together with Japanese blueberry timber and vibrant pops of purple bougainvillea, which sit atop the 5 poolside cabanas materializing an outside backyard within the sky. With 81 solar loungers, resident DJs and a bar, the vibe right here is decadent and relaxed – the right spot to whereas away a sunny day in opposition to Tampa metropolis views.
EDITION consists of 172 visitor rooms and suites
Open to the general public, Azure at EDITION serves a recent Mediterranean-flecked menu of dishes similar to Santorini Tomato Fritters, in an elevated setting anchored by a big white oak and marble racetrack bar and lined with intimate and personal banquettes, upholstered in white leather-based and linen, separated by slatted bleached oak screens.
Lastly, sandwiched between the second stage and the ninth ground Rooftop, are the 172 guestrooms and suites. Every room is an understated haven with marble bogs and a curved American Black Walnut entrance that results in a light-weight white oak house embellished with images by the late New York-based trend and portrait photographer, Rodney Smith, and customized Jean-Michel Frank-inspired furnishings alongside the sensuous curves of a white lacquer Cherner Chair. There are 5 Backyard Terrace rooms on the third ground, the one-bedroom Penthouse – with a media room, open-plan dwelling and eating room, pantry and expansive walk-in wardrobe and toilet – is on a light-filled nook of the eighth ground, whereas every guestroom both seems out onto town, or has views of the boat-filled Garrison Channel.
