The Pick n Pay Taste of Durban is back from Friday 25 to Sunday 27 July at Suncoast Casino, Hotels and Entertainment. Chefs from nine of Durban’s top restaurants will create special menus of starter-sized dishes, including their signature dishes, designed to reflect their individual philosophies, whilst showcasing seasonal and premium ingredients.
Taste of Durban 2014 promises to be the most exciting ‘foodie’ event of the year.
Marcelle Roberts from Café 1999 is back for the third-year running with her inimitable brand of casual cuisine. Louise Potgieter from Havana Grill at Suncoast and Themba Mngoma from Little Havana. Newcomer Nardia Adams, from Asian Tapas spot Greedy Buddha, will be cooking up a storm on the grill with Lucy Markewicz flying the colours for Freedom Café. Popular Indian restaurant Amaravathi Palki, Market, Beluga Durban, Vigour & Verve and exciting new addition to the line-up this year, The Durban eKasi Experience, brings the total of participating restaurants to nine.
Over three days, this unique international restaurant festival will bring together Durban’s most dedicated and sophisticated foodies in an al fresco, dining celebration. Visitors will have the opportunity to sip, sample and shop their way around the festival. This year’s show offers a range of brand new features and culinary experiences, to ensure that there is something for everybody to enjoy.
“We are thrilled with the wide range of restaurants, features and suppliers we have participating in Taste of Durban this year,” says Event Director, Justine Drake. “The event is growing year on year and we are excited at the prospects of a bumper turnout in 2014.”
‘Must-do’s’ include:
- Pick n Pay Fresh Living Chef’s Theatre
- The Pick n Pay Wine and Canapé Experience, where guests learn how to create their own canapés
- The LINDT Master Chocolatiers
- Castle Milk Stout Experience – chill out in the marquee and lounge area
- Robertson’s Butcher’s Block in association with Big Green Egg – a gastro theatre dedicated to all things meaty
- BP Wild Bean Café
- The CTA Benefit Stage – a line-up of local artists will entertain by donating their time and talent as an act of active volunteerism. In doing so, they will call foodies to do the same by challenging them to support local charities showcased at the event with their own time and talent donations.
Besides the amazing range of restaurants, suppliers from around the country are pulling out all the stops to make this show a feast for every visitor, with a market that’ll keep you coming back for more.
Bringing a taste of the Cape to our sub-tropical shores, some of the country’s best wineries will showcase their award-winning wines – Idiom Wines, Hermanuspietersfontein, Orange River Estate, Thelema Mountain Vineyards, Waterford Wine Estate, Welgemeend Wine Estate, Wildekrans Wine Estate and Stellenbosch Vineyards.
Dates and times:
Friday 25 July: 18h00 – 22h00
Saturday 26 July: 12h30 – 16h30; 18h00- 22h00
Sunday 27 July: 12h30 – 17h30
Tickets from R80 from www.itickets.co.za or www.pnptickets.co.za
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