InterContinental Hotels & Resorts recently launched a new Planet Trekkers Children’s Menu across its properties in North and South America.
Designed exclusively for young InterContinental hotel guests by award winning chef Theo Randall and child food expert and best-selling international author Annabel Karmel, the new menu was developed with nutrition and a theme of food exploration at its core. It features dishes with a myriad of flavors, textures, smells, and tastes that will take children on an educational and culinary voyage around the Americas while ensuring an enjoyable and nutritionally balanced meal.
Randall is renowned for creating simple, authentic dishes using the best and freshest ingredients. Karmel has written more than 37 books on children’s nutrition and cooking for children and is internationally recognized as a leading authority on helping children to eat properly. Together they conducted a taste and learn tasting session with young guests to explore a variety of ingredients that appeal to young palates in the Americas.
“Dining while on vacation is as much a part of the overall adventure as sightseeing,” said Jean-Pierre Etcheberrigaray, vice president of F&B, InterContinental Hotels Group Americas. “For this menu, we’ve experimented with a variety of flavors, ingredients, and combinations to develop a range of dishes that would be familiar to a child’s palate yet create excitement around their dining experience at InterContinental Hotels & Resorts around the Americas. The dishes we’ve created for this menu will leave as much of an impression on the children as the destinations they are visiting.”
More than half a million children visit InterContinental Hotels & Resorts each year, according to Simon Scoot, vice president of global brands at InterContinental Hotels & Resorts. “We want to ensure that we are giving them the opportunity to enjoy ‘Food Exploration,’ which was our guiding principle when creating the new menu.”
The InterContinental Planet Trekkers Children’s Menu is currently available at more than 25 properties across the Americas, and by first quarter 2015, most InterContinental hotels in North America and South America will have the menu.
