Jamaica Liquor Warehouse’s Asian Menu Hits All The Right Notes
Pan-seared bacon-wrapped salmon, bacon-wrapped bites drizzled with Asian BBQ sauce and topped with sesame seeds and crispy salmon skin (Photo: Karl Mclarty)
Lifestyle, Thursday Food
April 13, 2023

Jamaica Liquor Warehouse’s Asian Menu Hits All The Right Notes

Jamaica Liquor Warehouse Managing Director Nesha Smith Hoo Kim wants to let you in on a little secret. Asian-inspired cuisine has entered the group chat, and epicureans are abuzz.

Back story: Months ago Hoo Kim participated in a wine tasting of Harbour Wines & Spirits’ growing portfolio. The Grace Foods-led wine business had invited the Jamaica Liquor Warehouse boss to see, swirl, sniff, sip, and savour the newest additions to their portfolio. “We had a tasting, and that’s what sparked all of this. Because we said these wines need to be highlighted with their very own menu,” explained Hoo Kim.

The ‘all of this’ she speaks of? A Jamaica Liquor Warehouse x Harbour Wines & Spirits Asian-inspired luncheon. The event, held last Wednesday, April 5, at the eatery’s Lindsay Crescent location, saw Hoo Kim and Harbour Wines & Spirits – Grace Foods Brand Manager Kaydene Senior welcoming nine guests eager to witness chef Kamone Francis transform fresh produce into a tantalising four-course menu that hit all the right notes.

Hoo Kim is particularly excited about the chicken katsu and even suggests it may secure a spot on the restaurant’s main menu.

Eager to try Jamaica Liquor Warehouse’s new Asian menu? You’ll have to wait for the menu’s May debut. Until then, live vicariously through a few lucky guests.

Photographer: Karl Mclarty

Jamaica Liquor Warehouse

17 Lindsay Crescent, Kingston

Phone: (876) 925-9427

Menu: jamaicaliquorwarehouse.com

Reservations: jamaicaliquorwarehouse.com

(Photo: Karl Mclarty)
The tablescape complete with ornate chinoiserie china, and bouquets of roses, Oriental lilies, snapdragons, and lisianthus (Photo: Karl Mclarty)
Guests raise a toast to a successful tasting. From left: Jamaica Liquor Warehouse Managing DirectorNesha Smith Hoo Kim; her husband, Unlimited Entertainment Managing Director Richard Hoo Kim; Grace Foods & Services Regional Sales Manager. Matthew Allen; JMMB Client Services Manager Kaydia Tomlinson; assistant general manager at JN Money Services Ltd Sanya Wallace; 876 Technology Solutions CEO Trevor Forrest; Jamaica Liquor Warehouse marketing manager and Chélan Communications managing director Chélan Smith; Yazoza Digital Managing Director Yanique Lambert; Harbour Wines & Spirits – Grace Foods Brand Manager Kaydene Senior; Blue Power Group Ltd General Manager VJ Tolan; and Grammy Award-winning producer/songwriter Matthew “Keely Keyz” Keaveny(Photo: Karl Mclarty)
Server Shante Wisdom presents the Asian summer salad with fried chicken wontons. (Photo: Karl Mclarty)
Assistant general manager at JN Money Services Ltd Sanya Wallace relished the pan-seared bacon wrapped salmon much to the delight of her tablemate, Client Services Manager at JMMB Kaydia Tomlinson (Photo: Karl Mclarty)
Franz Lamont serves pan-seared bacon-wrapped salmon for Unlimited Entertainment Managing Director Richard Hoo Kim. Also photographed: Grace Foods & Services Regional Sales Manager Matthew Allen. (Photo: Karl Mclarty)
Chicken katsu, panko-crusted fried chicken breast, jasmine rice, blistered tomato and corn, topped with a fried egg and sesame seeds (Photo: Karl Mclarty)
A perfect pour of Zuccardi Serie A Torrontés (Photo: Karl Mclarty)
Lychee cheesecake drizzled with a Scotch bonnet lychee limoncello coulis and fresh berries (Photo: Karl Mclarty)
With notes of red fruits, orange, pineapple and mango on the nose, the Santa Julia Sparkling Dulce Natural paired perfectly with the lychee cheesecake. (Photo: Karl Mclarty)
Jamaica Liquor Warehouse Marketing Manager/Chélan Communications Managing Director Chélan Smith snapped the lychee cheesecake. (Photo: Karl Mclarty)
The evening’s pours included (from left) Zuccardi Q Cabernet Franc, Santa Julia Sparkling Dulce Natural, Chateau Ste Michelle Riesling, Zuccardi Serie A Torrontés, Marquis de la Tour Crémant de Loire. (Photo: Karl Mclarty)
Of the new wines, Harbour Wines & Spirits – Grace Foods Brand Manager Kaydene Senior’s fave is the Zuccardi Q Cabernet Franc (Photo: Karl Mclarty)
The Thursday Food lens captured Chef Kamone Francis as he was introduced to guests by Jamaica Liquor Warehouse Managing Director Nesha Smith Hoo Kim. (Photo: Karl Mclarty)
Jamaica Liquor Warehouse Asian-inspired menu.
Table setting by Giselle Ashley (Photo: Karl Mclarty)

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