Events and private tables
A table, an evening, a public week held privately. The event can be famous. The stay should not try to be.
The year has weeks that are public by nature: the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Art Dubai in April, Cannes in May, Monaco in early June, Paris at the end of September. Elaris Private does not try to outshine them. The work is the stay wrapped around them — the residence, the hours, the table that was actually wanted.
A private table is a simpler matter, and often the more important one. Two evenings in a week, held quietly, will be remembered. A different reception every night will be forgotten, except as fatigue.
Name the evening
Tell us the night, the number, and the temperament. A dinner for four after a day of meetings is not a dinner for fourteen on a terrace. A family table at Christmas in the mountains is not a table in Dubai during a fair. The room follows. So does the hour, which should not depend on the moment a public event empties into the street.
If the evening is attached to a fair, a race or a week of shows, say what must not be missed and what can be skipped. The house will protect the first and leave the second alone. Skipping is a skill. A full diary is not a successful stay.
Nothing performed
There is no need for a spectacle in order to mark a night. Linen, a kitchen that has been spoken to, a room that is not a thoroughfare. If flowers are wanted they are quiet. If a speech is wanted it is the party’s, not ours.
The same standard holds in a palace dining room and in a villa. The building changes. The refusal of fuss does not.
