The Sugar Palace At The Westin St. Francis
Filed under: Luxury Travel & Hotels
The Westin St. Francis has created a dazzling treat for the holidays, a 12-foot sugar castle. It is created by Executive Pastry Chef, Jean-Francois HoudreĢ and is one of the country's largest sugar castles. The rotating masterpiece is displayed in the Landmark Lobby. It was inspired by a French Chateau from Chef Houdre's hometown of Bordeaux and weighs more than 1200 pounds. The castle has more than 20 grand circular towers, approximately 30 rooms and illuminated windows surrounded by silver sugar trees, stars and snowflakes made out of pastillage, chocolate balls in brilliant colors and elves constructed out of marzipan.The main lobby is decorated with a 15-foot, glimmering white and silver holiday tree decorated in energy saving LED lights that display changing colors. The Tower Lobby has an 18-foot tall tree and the front desk is decorated with clusters of beautiful metallic apple green and pale gold Christmas trees and an assortment of glittering green boxes surrounded by gold garland, patches of snow and clusters of dripping LED icicles adorning the length of the overhang.
The Sugar Castle will be on display November 24 - January 3. The Westin St. Francis has a variety of holiday packages including discount rates, ice skating on Union Square, Oak Room Holiday afternoon tea and special Christmas Day Dinner and New Year's Eve Dinner menus.
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