Business Chief Magazine March 2026 | Page 140

LIFESTYLE | FOOD & DRINK
Iris’ s menu – kept under wraps by Anika and the team – encourages a more considered approach to what we eat.“ Our dishes can be provoking,” she says,“ but that’ s really important. I want to take that stiff, Michelin Star mindset and turn it on its head, bring people down to where they’ re comfortable and feel responsible for what they’ re eating. It’ s all about challenges, flavours and possibilities.”
According to Anika, feedback to the experience ranges from harking back to long-buried childhood memories to, in one case, tears.“ People come from around the world for very different reasons,” she says.“ It really is an expedition and journey, and not an easy one. But there’ s a real feeling people do it with purpose. I’ m proud when guests leave with more questions than they came with.”
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