Banquet of Hoshena - a culinary journey in the world of fairy tales

Banquet of Hoshena with fairies, kings, queens and floating food. Emotions like fear, love, courage and joy take you through a 5-course menu in 3D technology, and eating food takes on a whole new meaning. Join us!

Nadine Beshir

This concept started more or less with Nadine Beshirwho is a Canadian-Egyptian entrepreneur in food experiences. She found and sought out Davy and Kristin McGuire who were involved in digital illusions and together they have created a fantastic concept.

This experience, also known as "pop up" as it is only for an indefinite period, is available at the Japanese restaurant. Kasai at Linnégatan 18 in Stockholm.

Japanese restaurant Kasai

I (Peter) was invited by my friend Christian Muda. with Food and travel blog, to try this fairytale journey with good food and wine packages. The new theme "Banquet of Hoshena" is a story about kings and queens, fairies and emotions, in an animated 3D illustration.

Downstairs in the restaurant is a large room where there are 4 tables with room for eight people at each table. Here we will combine the experiences with food, wine and ultimate story telling. This trip does not clash with the other guests at the Kasai restaurant, so as not to interfere with the storytelling.

Banquet of Hoshena

On the card end of each table is a blank white board and an all-white woman's bust, which comes to life when the projectors are switched on. We hear a story from a fantasy world.

Hoshena is the queen of the country which no one knows where it is, and which tells us that it has been struck by darkness, sorrow and fear. Together we will taste the menus and converse with the table guests and turn the kingdom into happiness, love and joy.

There is a king too who doesn't want to wait for bad and dark feelings to take over the kingdom. He embarks on a journey to destroy those evil feelings for good.

The dinner will take about two hours and the stories happen between the menus. As you eat, there is time to chat with your friends or your neighbour, and experience the food.

The starter

On the tables there are two covered bowls, or volcanoes with tablecloths over them that the staff remove, and here are floating bowls with rice balls on them. There are mushroom-filled and panko-fried rice balls with yuzuaioli and chilli that are really good, which I want more of but it is not possible.

Pumpkin soup

We continue with a ginger-spiced Muscat pumpkin soup with caramelised caviar crumbs, pumpkin oil and tempura prawns. The Queen is with us every step of the way as we eat.

Next to us is a small bag that we will open. and inside are two cubes. We will whisper to the cubes our greatest fears in life and then put them in the pumpkin soup, and suddenly they will start blinking if we have just told the truth ...

The tempura prawns enter a bowl that smokes and in different colours and we taste it. I love pumpkin soup and I like the concept of fantasy and experience together. The dish is called "Earth through fog".

Duck breast

Into the table comes a black bao bread filled with star aniseed-fried duck breast, zucchini and three chilli sauces of varying heat. You choose the sauce according to how angry you are and what you want to get rid of. The dish is called "Anger" in Banquet of Hoshena.

Robata grilled salmon

Between our dishes there were drinks smoking and our plates talking. with us between courses. The next course was Robato grilled salmon on celery and apple puree, topped with cucumber and silver onion, lovely green apple and wasabi broth. The dish is called "Sadness and nostalgia through water".

The Dessert Passion in the Banquet of Hoshena

We finish with a chocolate globe with passion fruit sorbet, peach, strawberry and pistachio. We hope we have given the kingdom and the queen some hope for the future.

Now the whole table is blooming and butterflies fly along the table and little figures lie on the table talking and laughing.

A wonderful experience

This is here to stay and we will see more of it in the future, with more different concepts in more restaurants. Sweden was the fourth country in the world for which this is being shown, with London, Nashville and Kuwait being the others.

other menu

They serve the menu in so many different ways and something should suit you.. How about vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, lactose-free or nut-free? If you have other requests, just contact them when you book a table.

Prices

• 5 course fairy tale menu 895 SEK per person
• Wine package 595 SEK per person
• Non-alcoholic wine package 250 SEK per person

Video from the Banquet of Hoshena

Banquet of Hoshena visas until Dec 2019

Until 14 December they have this menu and after that nobody knows? The menu is created by the owner of Kasai Paulo Fagundez and his team.

Can I recommend this?

A very nice dining experience that went by very quickly (2 hours), and it felt like you were in a film. Good food and it's 5 courses so you don't have to leave the table hungry. Bring your friends or your loved one for a nice evening.