St. Barth Gourmet Festival Announces Its 2021 Chef Lineup

St. Barts will welcome again its St. Barth Gourmet Festival, together with a few of France’s greatest gastronomic expertise, this November. 

The French-speaking Caribbean island will see the relaunch of this epicurean custom with 11 French cooks cooking alongside native culinary groups at numerous inns and eating places. Collectively, these teams will put together menus for one-of-a-kind, multi-course tasting dinners. 

Now in its eighth 12 months, the St. Barth Connoisseur Competition is scheduled to happen November 10 by means of November 14, 2021. 

“It’s quantity,” mentioned Nils Dufau, president of the Territorial Tourism Committee of St. Barts, of the entire collaborating cooks. “That is the primary time we’ve had so many cooks coming. We felt that individuals needed [the festival] to increase in order that extra folks can go to extra eating places.”

Began in 2014, the St. Barth Connoisseur Competition was based as a method to showcase St. Barts’ French delicacies to the island’s group. The idea would develop to develop into a significant occasion that may additionally appeal to attendance by worldwide vacationers.

“After a few years, it began to be a factor the place folks began to return [to St. Barts] for it,” Dufau added. “So, it is a double acquire for us. It’s not solely appreciated by guests but in addition by us St Barts residents.” 

With 2020, Dufau mentioned that 12 months’s occasion was cancelled as COVID instances hit France exhausting. The anticipated cooks additionally determined in opposition to collaborating in acknowledgement of the shutdown of eating places throughout their homeland.

Whereas St. Barts has reopened to vaccinated travelers, entry necessities in accordance with the French authorities presently contain ​offering proof of vaccination standing or a destructive RT-PCR Covid-L9 take a look at carried out inside three days previous to boarding your flight. Alternatively, an antigen take a look at inside 48 hours previous to departure can be accepted.

Areas for the 2021 St. Barth Connoisseur Competition can be unfold out on the island; amongst them, Gustavia, its capital and major port. Collaborating pageant inns will embody Hôtel Barrière Le Carl Gustaf, Hôtel Rosewood’s Le Guanahani St. Barth, Hôtel Christopher, Hôtel Manapany and Cheval Blanc St-Barth Isle de France.

In line with Dufau, the deliberate chef servings can be just like what meals might be ordered at a high-end restaurant in France. Together with partnering inns, collaborating eating places embody Zion St-Barth, La Petite Plage, and Le Tamarin.

The concerned cooks will not be solely from completely different components of France — however with one being from Monaco and one other from St. Barts — however respectively have earned Michelin stars. They’re: Chef Pierre Gagnaire of Pierre Gagnaire Restaurant in Paris; Chef Eric Frechon of Hôtel Le Bristol, additionally in Paris; Chef Arnaud Lallement of L’Assiette Champenoise in Tinqueux; Chef Jean-Rémi Caillon of Le Kintessence at Le K2 Palace in Courchevel; Chef Nicolas Beaumann of Maison Rostang in Paris; and Chef Dimitri Droisneau of La Villa Madie in Cassis. 

Different members embody Chef Sébastien Vauxion of Le Sarkara of Le K2 Palace in Courchevel; Chef Marcel Ravin of Blue Bay at Monte-Carlo Bay Hôtel & Resort in Monaco; proprietor and Chef Juan Arbelaez, whose Parisian institutions embody Yaya, Vida, Plantxa and Levain; Chef Jean Imbert of Cheval Blanc St. Barth Isle de France in Salines; and Chef Matthias Marc of Substance et Liquide in Paris.

Every chef will put together a multi-course menu at a set worth of 135 Euros per particular person. Dinner reservations may be made by instantly contacting the pageant’s companion inns and eating places. For extra info, go to the pageant’s website.