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Global Feast: Meet and Eat the World

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Time 18:00
Date 13/08/12
Price £55

World-shaped 80-Seater Table Landscape hosts Pop-up World-food Feast each Night of the Olympics.

London’s finest chefs and designers have come together during the Olympics to launch Global Feast, a 20-date gastronomic experience within ‘Worldscape’ - a huge art installation seating 80 diners in a 3d model of the world. Global Feast (‘Around The World in 20 Days’) offers fine dining and ground-breaking design. The Worldscape installation - 15-metres long, six metres wide, more than two metres tall - doubles as both table and seating for 80 guests who congregate around its continents - dining off its coastlines, enshadowed by its mountains, illuminated by its cities.

Over 20 consecutive evenings, guests will travel the cultures and cuisines of the world with sumptuous food prepared and served by some of London’s most innovative and experienced chefs. Each night’s menu will reflect a different cuisine, overseen by the doyenne of underground restaurants, Kerstin Rodgers, of The Underground Restaurant.

Each night new guest chefs - from the best of London Supper Clubs and restaurants - will prepare a four course meal, drawing on their own national food culture and heritage. The feasts will take place at Stratford Town Hall just minutes from the Olympic Stadium in a heated covered courtyard, and featuring an exhibition of atmospheric photographs by Nadege Meriau. Each evening will also be interspersed with entertainment: different musicians, performers and artists each night reflecting the geographical culture of the evening’s feast. The extravaganza begins with West Africa on the first day of the Olympics, moving continually eastwards to end in Brazil - a symbolic handover to the 2016 Games.

Each evening features unique cuisine and entertainment from a different culture and geography- book your culinary trip here.

Global Feast moves along the world’s table in 20 degree increments, starting the journey in West Africa with chef Chris Massamba, who kicks off the Feast with his gourmet raw/vegan interpretation of classic West African dishes.

For the Opening Ceremony of the Games, we arrive on the meridien (Greenwich Meantime) with, appropriately, a British night featuring Kerstin Rodgers (aka MsMarmitelover), curator of The Global Feast, of the Underground Restaurant from England, stylish supper club hostess Aoife Behan from Scotland and Ireland and Denise Baker-Mclean, Welsh finalist in Britain’s best dish.

The Global Feast then moves continually eastwards to the final night’s end in Brazil (13th of August) - a symbolic handover to the 2016 Games.

South African-born Arno Maasdorp of the Saltoun Supper Club in Brixton brings his unique eye for detail to Central and South African cuisine on Sunday 29th July, while Polish food and performance artist Caroline Hobkinson will be cooking Eastern European cuisine (31st July).

Stockholm-based supper club chef Linn Soderstrom will be flying in from Sweden to be the featured chef on Scandinavian (28th July) night.

Iranian-born chef, writer and supper club host, Sabrina Ghayour hosts her own sold-out Persian and Arabesque supper clubs in London under the name of Sabrina’s Kitchen.

 Diners at the Feast will be treated to the full range of Asian food that London has to offer, including exquisite Vietnamese food from acclaimed supper club veteran Uyen Luu from Leluu (6th August), and contributions from Japanese supper club chef Yuki (7th August), and boutique Indian bakery, Pistachio Rose.

Newcomers to the supper club scene – the Edinburgh-based Chai Lounge – bring their own style of home-cooked Indian food along with Urvashi, The Botanical Baker to the Feast on Friday 3rd August, and Cherry Smart from Chinese supper club Feed The Tang takes over Saturday 4th August.

Think Russian food is boring? Two Russians in London are set to revolutionise the image of Eastern-European food, by serving light, luscious and sexy Slavic dishes at characterful venues across London. Carina and Katrina from Russian Revels - a new vanguard “pop-up” club - forage though pre-revolutionary cookbooks to re-invent Russian classics and create radical interpretations of recipes from across the ex-USSR. Add to this a dash of performance, cabaret and film, and you have a very different Russian experience.

Mother and daughter team Monica and Lee from Caribbean supper Tan Rosie, will create tantalising Caribbean dishes inspired by their family recipes from Grenada and Carriacou,

 

Opens on Wed 25th July and ends on Monday 13th August

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