Seasons Focus
Opened since 2015, Lee Gardens’ Seasons has delighted the city’s most discerning food lovers with its contemporary take on French fare. To carry on the tradition, the esteemed French establishment has welcomed Lorenz Hoja on board as the restaurant’s new executive chef.
Born in Germany and having travelled extensively around the world, Hoja has accumulated culinary experience in celebrated restaurant kitchens from England to Austria, The Maldives to Singapore. He has dedicated more than a decade to working with French master Joël Robuchon at his restaurants in London and Paris; his most celebrated achievements include his two-year tenure as the executive chef at L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon in Singapore, where he helped the restaurant earn two Michelin stars for two consecutive years in 2016 and 2017. Hoja arrived at Seasons this autumn and, with his solid culinary foundation and classic training, aims to add new ideas to change how guests perceive French cuisine.
Taking after his grandparents’ passion for food, the chef’s love for French cuisine is shaped through an appreciation for ingredients and their innate characteristics. Provenance plays a key role in Hoja’s approach to his cuisine, which relies on fresh, seasonal ingredients executed as simply as possible, then presented with a contemporary twist.
