DOX Restaurant & Bar hosts business dinners, client lunches and private celebrations for groups of up to 20 guests in three set-apart spaces: a chef's table facing the open kitchen, a private dining room for 14, and two River Salons for meetings or parties. The restaurant is part of the Hyatt Regency Düsseldorf, on Speditionstraße in the MedienHafen, the former Rhine harbor turned business and media district.
Seminars and company events
For companies, the private spaces work for a board dinner after a meeting, a client lunch, a team celebration or a small product presentation over a meal. The private dining room is a separate area, away from the main service, that the restaurant recommends for business dinners and family meals of up to 14 people. River Salon I and River Salon II are offered for private parties and meetings and both open directly onto the outdoor terrace, which gives a group its own space with fresh air between courses or sessions. The official site does not state the capacity of the salons, so organisers should ask for it with their request. For groups in the private dining room and at the chef's table, the kitchen offers a set menu designed as an interactive experience, and it can compose a custom menu on request.
Rooms and capacities
The chef's table is a long marble table placed right in front of the open show kitchen. It seats up to 20 guests, who look on one side at the architecture of the MedienHafen and on the other at the cooks at work. The private dining room seats up to 14 and can be booked either with the skyline view or apart from regular service. The two River Salons have direct terrace access. Next to the restaurant, the DOX Bar has a curved champagne lounge and a terrace, and an air-conditioned lounge sits on the hotel's so-called Catwalk.
Catering
The kitchen describes itself as a brasserie mixing American and French cooking, with an international menu built around fresh fish, seafood and premium steaks. The interior is deliberately extravagant and feminine. The bar serves French and American cocktail classics and has a walk-in champagne and wine cooler that guests can look into from the counter, under hand-painted gold decorations that recall Art Deco and champagne bubbles. A Sunday brunch runs every week, and seasonal menus are offered at Christmas and on New Year's Eve.
Accommodation
Because DOX is the restaurant of the Hyatt Regency Düsseldorf, guests can stay in the same building, and the hotel also runs the Rive Spa. The official restaurant site does not give the number of bedrooms or the hotel's meeting facilities, which are handled by the hotel.
History and setting
The MedienHafen is one of Düsseldorf's best-known modern districts, with offices, agencies and contemporary architecture along the old harbor basins. From the restaurant, guests have a panoramic view over the city and the Rhine, which makes evening dinners in the private spaces a good way to show visiting clients the city.
Getting there
The restaurant is at Speditionstraße 19, 40221 Düsseldorf, inside the Hyatt Regency at the tip of the MedienHafen. It serves breakfast, lunch and dinner every day, and dinner runs from 6:30 p.m. The bar stays open until 1 a.m. from Monday to Thursday and until 2 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays.
