Patina Osaka and CHAUMET Launch Limited-Time “Bee de Chaumet” Afternoon Tea

Patina Osaka, which opened in May 2025 as the first hotel in Japan by Capella Hotel Group, will host a limited-time collaboration afternoon tea with CHAUMET, the historic French jewelry maison founded in 1780 and loved by royal families and admirers around the world as a naturalist jeweler. The “Bee de Chaumet Afternoon Tea” will be available from Thursday, June 4, 2026, at Nijiri, the tea lounge on the hotel’s 19th floor. The honeycomb motif that symbolizes the collaboration theme, “Bee de Chaumet,” evokes a beehive formed over time, expanding endlessly through layered repetition. It represents bonds between people, love, and cherished feelings. In keeping with the old European romantic belief that bees find and bring happiness, bees have long been treasured as symbols of happiness, protective charms, and tokens of love. This idea resonates deeply with Patina Osaka’s philosophy of transformative luxury. As the name “Patina” suggests, values become more beautiful as they are polished by the passage of time, while encounters with a place and its people bring new perspectives that enrich and imprint each moment in the heart. The afternoon tea is a special collaboration born from the quiet harmony of both brands’ values. It is Patina Osaka’s first collaboration since opening and CHAUMET’s first collaboration in the Kansai area. Inspired by the order and harmony of the bee as a natural motif, the collection has been shaped through Patina Osaka’s sensibility into an afternoon tea reminiscent of sunlight. Like a work of art, it reflects French refinement and aesthetics in a contemporary way, expressed through Nijiri’s delicate sensibility in everything from tableware and presentation to the smallest details of the menu. The sweets include a honey lemon financier that faithfully reflects the world of the collection, finished with a gently sweet honey lemon glaze and fragrant lemon confit, evoking elegant jewelry. The guava and grapefruit mousse combines tropical aromas suited to early summer with refreshing acidity, creating a bright aftertaste reminiscent of sunlight. The honey vacherin layers light meringue, honey chantilly, and sautéed pineapple, balancing mellow richness with the juicy sweet-tart character of tropical fruit to express natural beauty with delicacy. Savory items include smoked duck with orange honey glaze and celeriac, accented by a honeycomb-shaped tuile for a light texture and layered with the depth of smoked duck, orange, and honey. The cheese croqueta with honey aioli encloses the rich umami of Basque Idiazabal cheese, with a crisp exterior and melting interior, while the gentle sweetness of honey creates an elegant finish reminiscent of the maison’s world. Both the sweets and savories carry the aesthetic spirit of a European maison and are designed so that each bite evokes the lucky motif said to bring happiness. The afternoon tea is further enhanced by locally produced honey from Osaka’s urban beekeeping project, OSAKA HONEY. This unheated raw honey, gathered from flowers in Osaka Castle Park next to Patina Osaka and other parts of the city, is characterized by delicate floral aromas and clear sweetness. It reflects the local connection and the uniquely Osaka landscape where city and nature coexist, while also aligning with Patina’s commitment to sustainability. The sweets menu includes guava and grapefruit mousse, honey and citrus fruit dacquoise, citrus tart, honey vacherin, honey lemon financier, rosemary citrus scone, brown sugar scone, Osaka honey, citrus confiture, and clotted cream. The savory menu includes cheese croqueta with honey aioli, scallop tartare with citrus jelly and cream cheese, foie gras mousse with apple, smoked salmon with wasabi cream and olive oil caviar, prosciutto and cheese bouchée, and smoked duck with orange honey glaze and celeriac. The experience at Nijiri, named after the nijiriguchi entrance to a tea room conceived by Sen no Rikyu, quietly separates the everyday from the extraordinary and invites guests into a relaxing moment with panoramic views of Osaka Castle Park. Guests can enjoy original blended teas specially created for Patina Osaka, as well as exclusive cups combining rare Japanese black tea and green tea with the aroma of yuzu, while savoring each plate that reconstructs the refinement and timelessness of the Bee de Chaumet collection through a contemporary sensibility. The Bee de Chaumet Afternoon Tea will be held from Thursday, June 4, to Friday, July 31, 2026. Hours are 11:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., with last orders at 4:30 p.m. The price is 9,000 yen per person, including tax and service charge. The venue is Nijiri, the tea lounge on the 19th floor of Patina Osaka. Photos are for illustrative purposes only. CHAUMET is a high jewelry maison founded in Paris in 1780. For more than 245 years, it has continued to captivate royal families and many others around the world, including its first clients, Napoleon I and Empress Joséphine, through savoir-faire passed down across generations and the stories embedded in each creation. OSAKA HONEY is an Osaka-born honey brand that manages and commercializes rare urban beekeeping honey harvested through the Umeda Honeybee Project, an NPO and urban beekeeping initiative dedicated to coexistence between city and nature. Its unheated, unprocessed Japanese honey is collected from rooftop apiaries in Osaka’s Umeda district, with nectar sources including seasonal flowers in Nakanoshima, Utsubo Park, Osaka Castle Park, roadside trees, and riversides. The changing aromas and flavors of each season have drawn attention from chefs and pastry chefs as an “urban terroir” reflecting Osaka’s seasons and urban natural environment. Located between the Naniwanomiya Palace ruins and historic Osaka Castle, Patina Osaka invites mindful explorers to experience transformative luxury redefined through conscious living and creative expression. The 20-story sanctuary rising in Osaka, the city of water, is an emblem of sustainable beauty. Its 221 thoughtfully designed rooms reflect the Japanese aesthetic of seasonality in spaces harmonized with natural rhythms. Guests can experience P72, a restaurant offering micro-seasonal cuisine made with seasonal ingredients that tell stories of local artisans and the land’s bounty, as well as a listening room where music becomes meditation through speakers carefully crafted by sound pioneer Devon Turnbull of OJAS. Patina Osaka is a hotel for those seeking not only a stay, but growth, with heartfelt luxury, art, sustainability, and refinement at its core.