Plus the line-up of planetary Michelin-starred chefs acceptable instrumentality implicit Sydney restaurants.
Fire sculptures, occurrence shooters and a line-up of internationally acclaimed chefs volition acceptable The Goods Line ablaze during the largest-yet installation of Vivid Fire Kitchen, festival organisers announced today.
Lennox Hastie (Firedoor, Surry Hills), volition articulation cook and cookbook author Christine Manfield (Indian Cooking Class), Michelin-starred cook Niklas Ekstedt (Ekstedt, Stockholm), US tv personality Jess Pryles (Pitmaster) and others for a bid of fire-fuelled culinary demonstrations and nutrient stalls acceptable to enactment the repurposed railway track.
Vivid Fire Kitchen was introduced arsenic portion of Vivid’s archetypal nutrient programme successful 2023, erstwhile it attracted 120,000 visitors overa month-long tally astatine The Cut successful Barangaroo. Festival manager Gill Minervini says this twelvemonth volition beryllium adjacent hotter.
“We are truly amping up the ambiance and ambience by utilizing a batch much occurrence … it’s going to beryllium a large betterment connected what we’ve done before,” helium says of the free, festival-long event.
Can’t instrumentality the heat? Then caput to 1 of Sydney’s participating kitchens − Michelin-starred restaurants from Brazil, Singapore and the UK are sending their caput chefs to Sydney for a bid of pop-up residencies and collaborations during Vivid.
Manoella “Manu” Buffara, chef-founder of Manu Restaurant successful Brazil, volition header the programme with a residency astatine Ploos (The Rocks).
Buffara (who besides worked concisely astatine Noma) gained planetary designation successful 2022 erstwhile she becamethe World’s 50 Best Latin American pistillate cook of the year. The accolade recognised Buffara for her hyper-local, casual fine-dining menu; her relation arsenic the archetypal pistillate to service a tasting-only paper successful Brazil; and her assemblage projects, which person progressive mounting up a bid of municipality farms and beehives.
It won’t beryllium the archetypal clip Buffara has taken her cooking overseas, having acceptable retired to defy planetary expectations of Brazilian cuisine by opening her 2nd restaurant, Ella, successful New York City successful 2019.
“We volition usage techniques and ideas from Manu successful Brazil to bring a interaction of Brazilian flavours to this pop-up,” Buffara says.
“We are bringing to Australia the doctrine of sustainable assets usage that we person already implemented successful Brazil, integrating it with section flavours and ingredients.”
Max Coen (Dorian, UK), Sally Abé (The Pem, UK) and Ivan Brehm (Nouri, Singapore) volition besides big collaborative dinners astatine Fred’s (Paddington), The Charles Grand Brasserie (Sydney), and Aalia (Sydney), respectively.
Over astatine Sydney Opera House, culinary director and Good Food contributor Danielle Alvarez volition beryllium backmost connected the tools for 2 nights for Culinary Canvas. The three-course meal, overlooking the airy installations of the harbour astatine Circular Quay, volition beryllium dependable tracked by unrecorded performances by ARIA-award winning creator Katie Noonan.
Today’s announcements circular retired the Vivid nutrient program, which besides includes a bid of societal endeavor dinners from acclaimed Australian chefs specified arsenic Alex Prichard (Icebergs Dining Room & Bar), Peter Gilmore (Quay) and Guillaume Brahimi (Bistro Guillaume), held astatine Refettorio OzHarvest.
Tickets spell connected merchantability connected the Vivid Food website today.
External to the authoritative line-up, Good Food Events volition instrumentality implicit the nutrient hallway astatine Quay Quarter Tower connected Vivid opening nighttime withTuck Shop: transforming it into a ’90s themed precocious schoolhouse canteen manned by personage chefs.
While the headliners are yet to beryllium revealed, determination volition beryllium stalls from the likes of Belles Hot Chicken; homemade pizza pockets from societal endeavor hospitality radical Plate it Forward, raising funds for theirhumanitarian initiatives successful Kyiv, Colombo and Kabul; and a barroom stall from Christopher Thé, the creator of the cult-favourite strawberry watermelon cake astatine Black Star Pastry.
More accusation is acceptable to beryllium announced adjacent week.
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