25th St. Moritz Gourmet Festival: 12th-20th January 2018
by Qian Leung
@ 15 Sep 2017
For the first time ever, the St. Moritz Gourmet Festival will be held over nine days, and two weekends, taking place from Friday 12th to Saturday 20th January 2018. In the middle of the festival, there will be a changeover of five of the total ten international celebrity chefs. At the beginning of the year this will give foodies much more time and leisure to enjoy and experience even more exceptional culinary delights.
The Grand Julius Baer Opening will kick-off the festival on Friday evening, 12th January 2018, in a festive setting at the Kulm Hotel, St. Moritz. Throughout the rest of the festival there will now be six evenings dedicated to the famous “Gourmet Dîners”. The Gourmet Safari is being expanded in answer to ever-increasing guest demand. The new format will now feature six of these highly popular culinary discovery tours with a total of 12 trails - all leading to the Chef’s Table of our guest chefs.
Special events, tastings as well as first-class champagne and wine events will further enhance the festival programme. For instance, there will be the new Sunday Brunch at the CheCha Restaurant & Club, newly opened this summer by Reto Mathis.
On Tuesday evening, 16th January 2018, the legendary Kitchen Party at the Badrutt’s Palace Hotel will be the summit meeting at the midpoint of the festival. All ten guest chefs will be at the stove again to spoil the guests in the luxury hotel’s canteen kitchen.
For the crowning Grand BMW Gourmet Finale at the end of the festival on Saturday evening, 20th January 2018, the Suvretta House St. Moritz will be the new, highly elegant venue.
The names of all ten guest chefs invited to the anniversary edition, will be announced this autumn. “We can already look forward to outstanding celebrity master chefs from the upper league and ranking among the “World’s 50 Best Restaurants,” divulges Reto Mathis, responsible in his capacity as President of the event organisation for selecting the international cookery stars.
Advance bookings for admission tickets for the event will commence at the beginning of November. Current news can be found on the
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