International Chefs Come and Celebrate at the Noosa International Food and Wine Festival

This festival is certainly not a new event, but worthy of mention as it is extraordinarily good and it's celebrating its tenth anniversary in 2013. From May 16 to May 19 many of the world’s best chefs, Australia’s celebrity chefs, wine makers and Australia’s hottest entertainers will descend upon Noosa bringing their star power to Australia’s premier food and wine event held on the Sunshine Coast.

For the ultimate Festival experience, a limited number of Platinum Experience packages will be your exclusive pass to an array of premium events and privileges throughout the Festival.

The Platinum Experience will include:

• Access to the new First Class Platinum Lounge for the four days of the Festival. The Lounge will feature premium furnishings with a private bar and restaurant area staffed by a private chef and wait staff who will provide full table service. Menus will be available with offerings from the Festival Village as well as a special a la carte menu made to order. The Lounge will also include luxuriously appointed restrooms. The Platinum Lounge Concierge who will be on hand to look after all your Festival needs.
• Thursday Night Edible Music Concert with premium seating followed by an exclusive Platinum Experience dinner at our Barefoot on the Beach marquee with chefs Ryan Squires, Phillip Johnson and Gene Quinlan
• Premium seating for the Festival’s three other fabulous concerts
• A choice of Friday or Saturday Qantas International Degustation Dinner with preferential seating.
• A choice of VIP Seating at Riverside Picnics on Saturday or Sunday
• A Platinum exclusive lunch on Friday with Peter Gago, legendary winemaker for Penfolds who will lead you through some very special wine tastings
• Special opportunities to meet with our wonderful line-up of top International & Australian chefs
• Luxury car service to & from accommodation to events.

Attending Chefs include:

Chef André Chiang has a philosophy of using only the freshest of seasonal produce. Having made an indelible impression on the Singapore culinary scene since opening in late 2010, Restaurant ANDRE was recently ranked #68 in the coveted San Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurants list.

Italo-Argentinian Mauro Colagreco is Chef Patron of restaurant Mirazur, located in Menton on the Cote D’Azur. His training began at the Gato Dumas hotel school in Buenos Aires, where he also worked in some of the city’s most prestigious restaurants including Catalinas, Rey Castro, Mariani and Azul Profundo.

Carlo Cracco is the sole owner and chef of the exquisite Ristorante Cracco which has two Michelin stars and is among the 50 Best Restaurants in the World.

Peter Gilmore is the Executive Chef of Quay restaurant in Sydney. Since 2001, Peter’s creative and original cuisine has seen the restaurant receive an unprecedented number of Australian and international awards, and establish itself at the forefront of Australia’s food scene.

David Kinch has forged a distinctive culinary path putting him at the forefront of new contemporary California cuisine. His philosophy is fostered by the terroir, or “sense of place” of the California Coast, and the kind of ingredient-driven cooking and modern technique he studied around the world.

Yoshihiro Narisawa is the owner chef of NARISAWA in Aoyama, Tokyo. He has been presenting nature conservation related dishes through his theme " Sustainability and Gatronomy".He believes that we must cherish with our true heart the environment that produces ingredients.

Australia's most outstanding chefs and is well known for his interesting and dynamic style of cooking.

David Thompson is renowned as an world authority on Thai food. His restaurants, Darley Street and Sailors Thai (opened in Sydney in 1992 and 1995 respectively) have been well regarded and great business successes.

Tetsuya Wakuda grew up in the Japanese town of Hamamatsu, which he left at the age of twenty-two for Australia, with a limited knowledge English as well as very little information about the country that he was to make home, and which came to embrace Tetsuya as one of the nation’s favorite chefs.  For more visit

www.noosafoodandwine.com.au

For more information on this new exclusive package contact Suzzanne Roughley on +61 7 5447 5666

THE PLATINUM EXPERIENCE ~ $2,500 per person

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