In collaboration with Laurent Moreno, one of the world's most celebrated Pastry Chefs with experience at three star Michelin restaurants in France, NUO is launching a signature Chocolate Afternoon Tea from April 2, 2018. A heaven for chocoholics, Laurent Moreno will use his own personal recipes and lifelong skills to take your taste buds on a chocolate journey of a lifetime and to savour the springtacular French elegance.

Sesame Blanc, green tea, vanilla chocolate Ivoire

Chef Laurent discovered YUAN's teas during his last trip in Beijing. Their subtle flavours as well as their fantastic complexity offering the ideal ground for creativity.

Strawberry and basil chocolate cheesecake

A beautiful Parisian woman walking down Place Vendome on a rainy night of May in Louboutin shoes.

Choux Laurent

A childhood memory. Chef's Laurent very first pastry creation was a traditional French Cream Puff when we was 7 years old. Here comes his 2.0 Version.

Le Carnaval - milk chocolate cake, raspberry confit

In Limoux, the village where Laurent comes from, people celebrate the longest carnival in the world every winter – 3 months – dressed in traditional cloth and holding the Limoux Stick.

Le Bounty- dark chocolate, mango passion fruit cream

A piece of jewellery where you can taste, stunning to look at and out of the world in taste. A creation of caviar and dark chocolate with gold leaf foil floating above, Chef Laurent has re-invented the French dessert with a new twist (just for NUO).

French dark nama chocolate

Chef Laurent rediscovered chocolates on the first trip to Vietnam last year. An intense road trip on the cacao road from pod to bar.

The master of modern dessert art Laurent Moreno, has over 15 years of professional experience and has worked with Pierre Hermé for a long time is a world-acclaimed Executive Pastry Chef and international dessert consultant. He represents Cabosse Chocolate and Grand Marnier brands as a Celebrity Ambassador.

This new extraordinary chocolate extravaganza starts April 2, 2018

About Lobby Lounge

NUO Hotel Beijing's sumptuously elegant Lobby Lounge is a luxurious haven for lingering and socialising in Beijing's Upper East Side, offering delicious handmade cakes, pastries and desserts, classic afternoon tea and freshly brewed coffee. Whether taking a break from browsing nearby art galleries or conducting brief business meetings, with the soft, melodious NUO original Ming-influenced cultural music as a backdrop, the Lounge provides a charming respite from the city's hectic pace.

About NUO Hotel Beijing

NUO Hotels celebrates the depth and richness of Chinese culture and shares it generously for the pleasure of guests in a contemporary way with the opening of its 5-star flagship property - NUO Hotel Beijing. Located near Beijing's Art Zone 798, the pulse of China's dynamic art movement, NUO Hotel Beijing is a contemporary showcase of unique design inspired by the “Golden Age” of prosperous Ming Dynasty heritage literature, art and culture, the perfect example of tradition blending in harmony with the future of contemporary China.

As art, literature and music are the ultimate expressions of culture, NUO Hotel Beijing proudly positions it centre stage of the guest experience in striking ways. The hotel serves as an art destination in its own right, with dedicated artworks in the hotel lobby, guestrooms and suites, food & beverage outlets acting as backdrops for a stunning series of carefully curated pieces by the country's most critically acclaimed artists, from newly emerging to world-renowned, including four exclusive, custom-created artworks by Zeng Fanzhi, considered by international art experts as “China's greatest living artist”. In his role as Beijing NUO Hotels Management Co., Ltd. honorary art consultant, Mr. Zeng created two majestic masterpieces, “Le Shan”, a silver and bronze sculpture, and “Landscape 2014”, an oil painting, as the dramatic centre pieces of the hotel's grand lobby.

A lifestyle destination with key interiors designed by Hirsch Bedner Associates, NUO Hotel Beijing is comprised of 438 guestrooms and suites as well as an Executive Club Lounge, all with floor-to-ceiling views of the city. Elegant furnishings in warm woods and leather, hushed jewel-toned accessories, plush silk-patterned walls, rich wooden and textured marble floors combine harmoniously in a contemporary interpretation of Ming Dynasty-inspired residential style. Guestrooms bring the hotel's art destination experience vividly to life with each room featuring an artwork originated from Zeng Fanzhi's paintings on paper, an interpretation of “Stepping on Snow to Look for Plum Flowers”, “ Mountain”, and “Rempike”.

All guestrooms have been thoughtfully designed and equipped with the modern traveller's security, comfort and productivity in mind: complimentary broadband and wireless Internet access, flat-screen high-definition televisions, Bluetooth-enabled Bose stereo speakers, in-room bars and Nespresso coffee machines, walk-in wardrobes, ensuite laundry and valet delivery cabinets, sophisticated air purification systems and high-level soundproofing, all-marble bathrooms with large soaking tubs, glass-enclosed rainforest showers and custom NUO Pu'er tea-infused bed and bath accessories. Guests may avail of the hotel's round-the-clock butler service, in-room dining and lifestyle concierge whilst Club accommodation and suite guests have exclusive access to the hotel's 25th floor Executive Club Lounge.

Committed to serving authentic cuisine, NUO Hotel Beijing carefully sources ingredients from partner local green farms and producers, which are then creatively prepared in the hotel's six restaurants and bars by a team of global culinary experts from several different countries. Diverse dining and entertainment venues at NUO Hotel Beijing include Jia, the hotel's signature Chinese restaurant; N'Joy for international all-day dining; sleek avant-garde O'Bar with its craft cocktails and outdoor terrace; gourmet boutique U'Deli as well as the hotel's sumptuously elegant, art-bedecked Lobby Lounge. 

The tradition of tea is a significant highlight and unique to NUO Hotel Beijing is the Yuan Tea House, with its graceful interiors evoking an exquisite courtyard and garden in a contemporary interpretation of a Ming Dynasty-era tea house, and where a variety of premium teas sourced directly from tea plantations in Yunnan, Anxi and Wuyi mountain regions are offered, including bespoke teas created exclusively for NUO Hotel Beijing.

For relaxation and wellness, guests may avail of NUO Fitness' well-equipped lifestyle gymnasium and a 25-metre heated indoor swimming pool, and NUO Spa with its nine treatment rooms. With its opening, NUO Hotel Beijing unveils a total of 2,500 square metres of conference and banqueting facilities, including 14 function rooms and the pillar-free 1,600-square metre Yongle Grand Ballroom, which can accommodate up to 1,500 guests and features natural daylight, a 9 metre-high ceiling designed for flexible lighting installations, LED dynamic lighting to change the room's mood, and direct-access elevators with the capability to accommodate cars. Event organisers benefit from a dedicated events manager on standby at all occasions.

A fleet of limited-edition supplied by NUO Travel as the hotel's exclusive limousine service, are deployed to meet NUO Hotel Beijing's guests' transport needs. Proudly “Made in China”, the iconic “Red Flag” limousines were luxury vehicles used for the transport of foreign dignitaries in China's past and have recently experienced a nostalgic resurgence in popularity.

In keeping with NUO Hotels' commitment to “low-carbon green intelligence”, NUO Hotel Beijing is equipped with a sophisticated air-purification system with high performance “F8 classification recognised by the European Committee for Standardisation (CEN), an intelligent lighting system and an energy-saving curtain wall system designed by German firm Schüco which reduces air-conditioning and heating wastage in the hotel. The hotel has stayed faithful to the “green building” template, carefully adhering to gold-level certification standards in LEED (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design Building Rating System), as well as achieving gold level certification.