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World’s First MICHELIN Guide Award Ceremony To Hold This July
The MICHELIN Guide Award Ceremony & Gala Dinner will unveil the first edition of the MICHELIN guide Singapore 2016, and will see the presentation of stars to restaurants in Singapore.
Hosted by Robert Parker Wine Advocate (RPWA), mark your calendars for the world’s first MICHELIN Guide Award Ceremony happening this 21 July 2016, at Resorts World Sentosa.
Open to the public for the first time, the event will allow you to get up close and personal with chefs from the newly crowned Michelin-starred restaurants in Singapore, and participate in a charity auction that will be conducted during the gala dinner.
Savour different courses prepared by Joël Robuchon along with a number of award-winning local chefs, and complement your meal with 12 specially selected wines from Family of Twelve, a fraternity of wineries from New Zealand.
In conjunction with the prestigious awards ceremony, the selection of the MICHELIN guide Singapore 2016 will also be officially revealed. All establishments have been selected according to the same five criteria used by Michelin inspectors around the world – the quality of ingredients used, mastery of cooking techniques and flavours, projection of chef’s personality in his cuisine, value for money and consistency, both over time and across the menu.
Tickets for the event can be purchased on guide.michelin.sg at SGD 450++ per seat. The MICHELIN guide Singapore 2016 can also be pre-ordered for SGD 39.95 online, and will entitle buyers to a 15-months free log-in to RoberParker.com (worth SGD 160) upon confirmation of order, and free and guaranteed delivery by 23 July 2016 within Singapore.
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Post-launch Activities For 2016
Apart from the MICHELIN guide Singapore Award Ceremony and Gala Dinner, RPWA has also announced a slew of pre- and post-launch activities that will roll out this year.
This includes the world’s first F&B Trade Seminar hosted by International Director of MICHELIN guides, Michael Ellis, held on 22 July 2016. Learn more about how Michelin recruits its inspectors, the criteria its inspectors adhere to when reviewing a restaurant’s cuisine, and how they assure the same quality levels of stars in different countries and across different cuisine types. Booking details for this event will be announced on 15 June 2016 on guide.michelin.sg.
RPWA has also lined up a roster of chefs from highly sought-after Michelin-starred restaurants around the world to grace the International Chef Showcase. Guests can enjoy specially curated menus paired with RPWA-rated wines that have received a score of RP90 and above. Guests can also sample culinary creations from Singapore’s newly starred restaurants at the Local Chef Showcase, and pair them with RPW-rated wines with a rating of RP90 and above. More details of the International and Local Chef Showcase will be announced at a later date.
As a pre-launch activity, Saint Pierre at One Fullerton will host four exclusive evenings with Hideaki Matsuo, owner and master chef of 3-star restaurant Kashiwaya in Osaka, Japan, from 8 to 11 June 2016. Catch Chef Hideaki as he presents his Japanese ryotei-style haute cuisine with Western influences through a seven-course menu. Tickets for this can be purchased online.
Held for the third consecutive year in Singapore, the Matter of Taste series will return with a walkabout wine tasting of iconic wines rated RP90 and above, wine master classes led by winemakers and RPWA wine reviewers, and wine-pairing dinners. On top of that, new Matter of Taste-Michelin Dinner will be introduced this October 2016, where chefs from Michelin-starred restaurants will pair their signature dishes with top wines specially selected by RPWA. Guests will get to mingle with chefs from Michelin-starred restaurants and top winemakers around the world.
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Along with this series of exciting events, there will also be a number of contests with attractive prizes to be won.
With the Master of Taste Facebook Giveaway, readers can submit a photo or video via Facebook of someone they admire for their cooking skills and stand to win dinner for two at Tokyo’s 3 Michelin-starred Sukiyabash Jiro, a pair of Singapore-Tokyo Business Class return flights on Delta Airlines, and a two-night stay at the 5-star Park Hyatt Hotel in Tokyo. All entries will also qualify for a USD 50 voucher off any Singapore-Tokyo return flight on Delta Airlines.
As for the Guess the Stars Contest, participants may send in their predictions for Singapore restaurants that will be awarded with stars in the upcoming MICHELIN guide Singapore. There will be a total of 23 prizes worth SGD 200,000 to be won which includes business class return flights for two to New York, a dinner for two at a selected 3 Michelin-starred restaurant in New York, with a bottle of RPWA 100-pointer wine, and many others. For more details on the prizes, visit guide.michelin.sg.
