'World Spice Festival' in September

A.G. Piyadasa

FESTIVAL: World Spice Festival, organised by the Corporate Section of the Sri Lanka Tourist Board, together with the five-star hotels and top restaurants in the city, will be held from September 14 to 21.

HSBC, one of the largest banking institutions in the world has offered to play the role of principal sponsor for the World Spice Festival in a bid to bring Sri Lankans a world class taste of global cuisine - reaffirming its belief to bring nothing but the best for its clients in Sri Lanka.

Each hotel, cafe and restaurant will conduct a food festival for one week in one of their restaurants with a guest chef taking you through a particular cuisine.

Udaya Nanayakkara, Chairman of the Sri Lanka Tourist Board, is very optimistic about the event's success and is closely involved with every aspect of event. A spectacular highlight of the main event of the festival is the Global Spice Village to be held on the 15 and 16 September at the Sathutu Uyana.

The speciality chefs flown down from various parts of the world will work their magic at this event, thus making the event a truly global one.

Participating hotels, cafes, and restaurants that will don the chef's hat at the 'Global Spice Village' are: Hilton Colombo, Taj Samudra, Trans Asia, Cinnamon Grand Colombo, Holiday Inn, Ceylon Continental, Mount Lavinia Hotel, Water's Edge, The Gallery Cafe, The Mango Tree, Raja Bojun, The Galle Face Hotel and The Galadari Colombo.

The cuisine on offer will be Chinese, Indonesian, South African, Arabic, Moroccan, Moghul, Thai, Singaporean, North Indian, and Sri Lankan, Malaysian and Mexican.

SriLankan Airline is the official airline who will be flying down chefs from across the globe to Sri Lanka for the Spice Festival.

With such an eclectic mix of cuisine represented by some of the foremost culinary destinations in the country, the 'Global Spice Village', as the premier highlight of the World Spice Festival, will make for a gourmet experience that simply cannot be missed.