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Celebrating its sixth year and held as part of the 'MTN Festival', this amazing food feast is guaranteed to remain the highlight in Joburg’s culinary calendar. Fourteen of Joburg’s top restaurants will join together to serve the fabulous, trend-setting signature dishes that have made them so popular with budding gourmands and critics alike. “We really didn’t have to dig deep this year,” says Taste Festivals Director, Justine Drake. “The days of Joburg being seen as Cape Town’s poor culinary cousin are definitely over. What we have this year are 13 of the city’s top restaurants as well as our own Taste Pop-Up restaurant where a handful of guest chefs will 'pop' in to cook their signature dishes during a Taste session.”
Pick n Pay Taste of Joburg Restaurant List 2012:
• African Pride Melrose Arch Hotel (Executive Chef, Hanroe Erasmus) • Blue Feather Fine Dining and Bistro (Executive Chef, Mitch Clark) • DW eleven-13 (Chef Patron, Marthinus Ferreira) • La Cucina Di Ciro (Chef Patron, Ciro Molinaro) • Mastrantonio Group (Chef, Pino Donzella) • Padbok Thai and Sushi Restaurant (Chef Patron Bank, Supasin Kangasadal) • Piccolo Mondo at The Michelangelo (Executive Chef, Andrew Atkinson) • Prosopa & Al Dente (Chef Patron, Dino Fagas) • Roots@Forum Homini (Executive Chef, Adriaan Maree) • Sel et Poivre and Le Petit Sel Bistro (Chef Patron, Coco Reinarhz) • Thava Indian Restaurant (Chef Patron, Matthew Abraham, and Consulting Executive Chef, Philippe Frydman) • Vivace Restaurant at the Radisson Blu, Sandton (Executive Chef, Vonique van Zyl, and Sous Chef, Jacques Venter) • Yamato Japanese Restaurant (Chef Patron, Cristina Sato) In keeping with the hottest trend to hit the restaurant scene globally, a new addition to this year’s event is the Taste of Joburg Pop-Up Restaurant, where a handful of guest chefs will 'pop' in to cook their signature dishes during a Taste session.
Taste Pop-Up Restaurant:
• Restaurant Mosaic at The Orient (Executive Chef, Chantel Dartnall) • Jazz Maniacs’ Restaurant at the Soweto Hotel (Executive Chef, Jafta Hatshejame) • Eat (Chef Patron, Arnold Tanzer) • Cube Tasting Kitchen (Chef Patron, Dario di Angeli)
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In addition, a number of environmentally sustainable initiatives are ensuring the festival is getting the ‘green light’ this year. “We are proud to be going green and embarking on this endeavour with our environmentally aware sponsors, partners and exhibitors,” says Festival Director, Justine Drake. “Taking the environment into account and ensuring best practice in terms of sustainability can only add to the flavour experience that epitomises Taste.” Naming sponsors Pick n Pay and Orbit Sugar Free Chewing Gum, both place great priority on environmental issues and actively promote and operationalise sustainability in their core activities. Pick n Pay is considered South Africa’s 'greenest' retailer with multiple green awards to its name, including the winner in the Retail Sector of the Climate Change Leadership Awards (CCLA) 2012. The award recognises Pick n Pay's world-class, eco-friendly stores and ongoing commitment to climate change education programmes. Pick n Pay continues to research, innovate and apply its findings to business practices and ultimately share their journey with their customers, to assist them in reducing their own impact on the environment through adopting more sustainable lives. The Pick n Pay Taste of Joburg has also partnered with green companies such as Interwaste and Green Home to ensure a more sustainable event. Interwaste has been commissioned to provide the environmental management solutions for Taste Festivals by providing recycling facilities on-site at the event and doing a carbon footprint assessment to ensure that the event is indeed going green and keeping its carbon footprint neutral. Green Home Products is South Africa’s leading biodegradable food packaging supplier and all plates, bowls, knives, forks, and spoons at this year’s Taste Festivals are environmentally-friendly and made from natural and renewable resources that are 100% biodegradable after use. Yet another example of green-aware exhibitors at Taste are San Pellegrino and Acqua Panna natural mineral waters. In addition to preserving their sources, they are constantly seeking more and more advanced solutions for controlling and reducing the environmental impact from conserving water, energy and materials in the bottling phase to carefully selecting the ‘friendliest' means of transportation, such as trains or ships.
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Finally, the Pick n Pay Taste of Joburg is proud to announce that the Chipembere Rhino Foundation has been nominated as the national Taste Festivals charity of choice for 2012. The Chipembere Rhino Foundation www.chipembere.org is a privately run, registered nonprofit organisation committed to on the ground assistance in the protection and conservation of Africa’s rhino. Funds raised allow for the purchase of equipment for anti-poaching units, the supply of technology-based equipment to better monitor rhino populations and research in veterinary procedures that help protect and record individual rhino populations. Branded Chipembere Rhino Foundation shirts and caps will be on sale at the Taste of Joburg, and all funds raised will go towards making a significant difference in the foundation's efforts to tackle rhino poaching and saving the plight of this iconic species. •
DINfo box i • Tickets are priced from R80 and include a tasting glass. Booking is recommended. • For more information and bookings visit www.tasteofjoburg.com or www.itickets.co.za • Follow @TasteOfJoburg on twitter or like facebook.com/TasteofJoburg for regular updates.
Festival times:
Thursday 27 September: 18h30 - 22h30 Friday 28 September: 18h30 - 22h30 Saturday 29 September: 13h00 - 17h00; 18h30 - 22h30 Sunday 30 September: 12h00 - 17h00
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