Puerto Vallarta festival
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Puerto Vallarta International Gourmet Festival (The Festival Gourmet International Vallarta) is an annual culinary festival
held in Puerto Vallarta
, Mexico
, every November since 1995. There were 35,000 visitors to the festival in 2006 .
Every year the Festival invites culinary professionals from all over the world to cook and to demonstrate their cuisines. The Festival is supported by local restaurants. During the Festival, international and local food and beverage professionals run events around town, with each of the participating restaurants hosting a guest master chief
and creating its own events to complement its food offerings.
Events during the festival include the Sunday Festival Gourmet Brunch, Wine Tasting, and Cheeses of the World. There are also Chef's Table and Winemakers' dinners hosted by restaurants. The traditional Gala Dinner, called The Spirit of Mexico, concludes the Festival.
, Heinz Reize of Hotel Krystal and Sivan Muller of Nestle
. They launched the first Puerto Vallarta Festival in 1995 (November 18-26). Six five-star hotels, six restaurants and twelve invited chefs participated in that festival . During the last eleven years of the festival, about two hundred featured chefs have participated in the event.
In 2003, the honored guest of the festival was Anton Mossimann, who received an appointment by Queen Elizabeth II
as an "Officer of the British Empire" and is a twice winner of the gold medal at the world level and the proprietor of Club Mossimann in both London
and Switzerland
. Gerard Dupont, a president of Academie Culinaire de France, comes every year to teach classes and share his secrets with both colleagues and the public.
Festival
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held in Puerto Vallarta
Puerto Vallarta
Puerto Vallarta is a Mexican balneario resort city situated on the Pacific Ocean's Bahía de Banderas.The 2010 census reported Puerto Vallarta's population as 255,725 making it the sixth-largest city in the state of Jalisco...
, Mexico
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
, every November since 1995. There were 35,000 visitors to the festival in 2006 .
Every year the Festival invites culinary professionals from all over the world to cook and to demonstrate their cuisines. The Festival is supported by local restaurants. During the Festival, international and local food and beverage professionals run events around town, with each of the participating restaurants hosting a guest master chief
Master Chief
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and creating its own events to complement its food offerings.
Events during the festival include the Sunday Festival Gourmet Brunch, Wine Tasting, and Cheeses of the World. There are also Chef's Table and Winemakers' dinners hosted by restaurants. The traditional Gala Dinner, called The Spirit of Mexico, concludes the Festival.
History of the Festival
The festival was the idea of Thierry Blouet of Cafe des ArtistesCafé des Artistes
Café des Artistes was a fine restaurant at One West 67th Street in Manhattan and was owned by George Lang. He closed the restaurant for vacation at the beginning of August 2009 and decided to keep it closed permanently while away, announcing the close on August 28, 2009...
, Heinz Reize of Hotel Krystal and Sivan Muller of Nestle
Nestlé
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. They launched the first Puerto Vallarta Festival in 1995 (November 18-26). Six five-star hotels, six restaurants and twelve invited chefs participated in that festival . During the last eleven years of the festival, about two hundred featured chefs have participated in the event.
In 2003, the honored guest of the festival was Anton Mossimann, who received an appointment by Queen Elizabeth II
Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
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as an "Officer of the British Empire" and is a twice winner of the gold medal at the world level and the proprietor of Club Mossimann in both London
London
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and Switzerland
Switzerland
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. Gerard Dupont, a president of Academie Culinaire de France, comes every year to teach classes and share his secrets with both colleagues and the public.