Tokyo: Where to Eat: Big Night Out: Peter

Peter

The flagship restaurant of the city’s newest and trendiest hotel, Peter is named after the Peninsula group’s long-serving chief executive, Peter Borer, a man who has never been afraid to push the boundaries of the hotel business. Peter was designed by über-chic New York firm Yabu Pushelberg, which had the advantage of working with a stunning dining room blessed with 360-degree vantages over the city. Look toward the interior and you are in Hong Kong, sort of, facing giant projected images of the hotel group’s home city. The dramatic decor, which marries the theme of purple and lavender with wood and steel, provides plenty of conversational fodder before the food. The signature dishes of chef Patrice Martineau are Hokkaido zuwaigani crab, Yonesawa confit beef brisket and warm pineapple-coconut baba cake. After dinner service on the weekend, the restaurant turns into a club where a female disc jockey spins hip-hop, R&B and disco beats. Owing to their innate love of the new and different, Tokyoites have made it one of the hottest tickets in town.