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Friday 5 OctOber 2018

Don’t Miss This Event!

Queue for Q (QIV Q)

PALM BEACH — The Ritz-Carlton Aruba likes to be innovative. To bring
something different to the table and that is literally the case with their
event Q IV. The ingredients of this unique happening are: location – the
lobby and outside terrace (re-styled in hip lounge), music – DJ Mista Fee
placed on a high stage as in a live DJ concert, and best of all is the
food – by celebrity chefs from Peru and the Executive Chef from The Ritz-
Carlton, Aruba. Dress in your Cosmo Chic or Cocktail outfit and indulge in
this Culinary-Lounge-Dance experience. Good to know: Entrance is FREE
and Prices are Special Sympathetic! Q is on from 7 to midnight and the
after party is casino. On for tonight as well as Saturday.

Director of Banquets, Maurice Tax, explains the name of the event.
“This concept is going to be a quarterly event here in the Ritz-Carlton
where we want to create an experience that is luxurious, but of more
affordable price level than you would expect. That is why it is a FREE
entrance event.” He continues that everybody is welcome, can have a
look around and if she/he likes it by all means stay. “Call your friends and
make it a night!” What will you find here? “Two celebrity chefs from Peru
that are flown in, Christian Bravo and Alvaro Raffo, who have created an
absolute amazing tapas menu, together with our Executive Chef Rafael
Lopez-Aliaga. If you come in a group of 4 or5 friends, you will have your edge. Of course there are also the sweets like the churros, cheese cake
table, pick some tapas and drinks and just enjoy the city-like vibe, DJ and and lime parfait. Basically in all food items is that there is always the clas-
super food.” There is more as the best mixologists on the island make sure sic one with the authentic taste.
you have top drinks. “Aruba Trading, Arion, Pepia and Tropical Bottling
are all helping us out. And in addition to that some real good soul house Raffo has the cooking passion in his blood. His parents run a catering
and maybe later deeper house.” The quarterly event is a flexible one company called ‘Charlotte’, started by his mother’s cakes and now a
that can differ in location like Q-pool, Q-Beach, Q-Ballroom and also in company of 43 operations with 700 employees. He opened a restaurant
concept like Q-lunch, Q-BBQ …. in Lime, called ‘73’, where he is the executive chef and one of the best
classic restaurants in the historical part of the city and he owns another
ExQuisite up-scale restaurant.
There will be two live cooking stations, one inside and one outside, and
three bars as one will be outside. Executive Chef Lopez-Aliaga: “We three “We like to connect with guests, we are friendly chefs”, Bravo laughs.
chefs are friends who share the passion for the art of cooking and we “This island amazes me, so beautiful and the friendliest people.” Bravo is
wanted to do something special where we can really connect with the a celebrity in his country, as DJ, chef and he runs his own graphic design
guests. Each chef prepares four dishes.” Chef Raffo: “There is a ceviche company. He is an ambassador for Peru and has a television programs. “I
station with the classic ceviche, ceviche ‘carretillero’ meaning ‘street- started trying to cook and messing around in the kitchen since I was five
car’ so it’s with yellow chili and fried calamari, taco-ceviche with lobster years old, so it was always my interest. The music and the designing I did
and the tuna ‘tiradito’ like a carpaccio in Japanese style”. It is about because I only do what has my passion and those three have.” He is a
contemporary Peruvian cuisine in connection with an Aruban touch. Pandora’s box, the other two joke. One thing is for sure, these three chefs
“The next station is the ‘causa’ station, in basic its cold mashed potato will rock senses all night long, so taste and talk at Q!
but we put a lot of lime juice and chili’s. We prepare the traditional one
with chicken in the authentic way to taste the way of family dishes and VIP Experience & Special Local Room rate
the other one is with sweet potato combined with shrimp tempura and You can pre-book a table for the extreme luxury crave. With a table you
Peruvian pepper on top. Then a causa of a kind of corn cake with some get a free raffle ticket for the casino where at midnight $ 5.000 in cash
scallops and onions. The Seco, a short rib with rice and beans, is a stew prices is given away. There are also special overnight rates for locals in
that makes your mouth melt as it is almost like a risotto but with a crispy the hotel this weekend!q