Bangkok Chefs Charity: 19 top chefs, all in one room
Forget about competition. For one night, these 19 executive chefs will join forces to cook up a gastronomic feast -- all in the name of charity. Open your wallets wide, Bangkok’s main foodie charity event of the year is back for round two, bringing in a whopping 19 chefs from some of the city’s top five-star hotel restaurants, as well as a couple from Phuket.
This year’s Bangkok Chefs Charity 2010 event will again take place in the Mandarin Oriental’s Royal Ballroom, on July 29, with the chefs putting aside their competitive egos to cook up a feast fit for royalty -- literally. Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn is presiding over the 2010 Bangkok Chefs Charity Gala Dinner and Auction.
“The concept is to combine the skills of culinary heavyweights from leading hotels in Bangkok and Phuket, led by the most senior and seasoned, Bangkok’s own celebrity executive chef Norbert Kostner, to create an haute gourmet nine-course dinner using the finest ingredients from the Royal Project in Chiang Mai (of which Chef Norbert is an advisor) and the best international sources generously provided by Gourmet One and Beverage One,” say event organizers. “The event is also a great opportunity to showcase the quality, creativity and distinct style of Bangkok’s foremost food and beverage professionals.”
The 19 executive chefs (see list below) from participating hotels will pair up to create dishes like foie gras and spiced chocloate with wild hibiscus flower; Japanese sea scallop and fennel-leek confit; roast Canadian lobster with aniseed-saffron and verjus emulsion, silver chard crescent and chorizo crisp; and slow roast fillet of wagyu beef with ragout of girolle mushrooms, sweet corn and sauce financiere. Naturally, each dish will be paired with top wines and champagne.
After the dinner, services of the participating chefs will go under the hammer. Eight auctions offer each winner a gourmet meal for six people by a selected pair of executive chefs, which will kick off with a starting bid of 20,000 baht. Bidding on the grand auction prize, a four-man chef gourmet experience for 10 diners at the winner’s home or chosen venue, starts at 100,000 baht.
Tickets for the event are 7,900 baht per seat (for tables of 10), and 25,000 baht per seat if you want to sit at the head table.
Part of the proceeds from sales of tickets and fund-raising auctions during the course of the dinner will go towards Border Patrol Police schools under the Patronage of Her Royal Highness, and the remaining to benefit underprivileged children at selected schools in Northeastern Thailand/Isarn.
Participating hotels and chefs
Amanpuri Resort, Phuket: Chef Stefano Artosin
Centara Grand & Bangkok Convention Centre at CentralWorld: Chef Michel Breliere
Conrad Bangkok: Chef Denis Lartigue
Dusit Thani Bangkok: Chef Erwin Eberharter
Four Seasons Hotel, Bangkok: Chef Nicolas Schneller
Grand Hyatt Erawan, Bangkok: Chef Lucas Glanville
Grand Millennium Sukhumvit Bangkok: Chef Philippe Derrien
Intercontinental Bangkok: Chef Leslie Stronach
JW Marriott Hotel Bangkok: Chef Dieter Ruckenbauer
Le Meridien Phuket Beach Resort: Chef Philippe Gaudal
Mandarin Oriental, Bangkok: Chef Norbert Kostner
The Peninsula, Bangkok: Chef Philip Sedgwick
Plaza Athenee Bangkok: Chef Martin Faist
Pullman Bangkok King Power Hotel: Chef Marshall Orton
Royal Orchid Sheraton Hotel & Towers: Chef Gael Lardiere
Shangri-La Hotel, Bangkok: Chef Anthony Dawson
Sheraton Grande Sukhumvit: Chef Michael Gremer
Siam Kempinski Hotel: Bangkok Chef Roberto Conrad
The Sukhothai: Bangkok Chef Nam Nguyen
