The twenty fifth annual version of the culinary and cultural competition has occasions operating from Feb. 22 to March 10.
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Whereas Toronto and Vancouver have freshly minted Michelin-starred eating places to boast about, Montreal shall be importing greater than a dozen Michelin-starred cooks to prepare dinner deluxe dinners at chosen eating places in the course of the 2024 Montréal en Lumière competition.
The twenty fifth annual version of the competition, with occasions operating from Feb. 22 to March 10, is front-loaded with 4 visiting cooks who every have three Michelin stars.
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They embody Emmanuel Pilon from Le Louis XV – Alain Ducasse in Monaco; Julien Royer from Odette in Singapore; Glenn Viel from l’Oustau de Baumanière in Les Baux-de-Provence in France; and Philippe Legendre from Le Cinq in Paris. As a part of the competition’s Air France Best Tables collection, they are going to be cooking respectively with the cooks and brigades on the Montreal eating places Mastard (Feb. 22-23 ), Monarque (Feb. 23-24), Maison Boulud (Feb. 23-24) and Commodore (Feb. 22-23).
Ten extra cooks, every with a single Michelin star, shall be coming to Montreal from so far as London, Brussels and Taipei to prepare dinner collaborative dinners in the course of the competition. Eight of the invitees even have a Michelin “inexperienced star,” which acknowledges a dedication to sustainable gastronomy.
In all, the competition is bringing in additional than 150 cooks from elsewhere in Canada, in addition to winemakers, to be featured at competition occasions. The guests will pair with Montréal eating places together with La Chronique, Graziella, Sabayon and Mon Lapin, which this 12 months was ranked first on the distinguished Canada’s 100 Finest Eating places record.
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Julie Martel, the competition’s gastronomy program supervisor, says collaborations between Montreal cooks and their visiting friends have been a vital part of the competition because it started.
“It’s that point after they meet in particular person, when magic occurs and friendships are born,” says Martel.
Within the early days of the competition, when there was no social media and cooking reveals on TV have been scarce, these collaborations have been important to attach Montreal to the bigger world of gastronomy, Martel says. Since then, Quebec’s culinary tradition has matured and grown extra pleased with its merchandise, and Montreal cooks sit up for sharing what they know and love with guests, Martel says.
Whereas the prices for the particular dinners will be as a lot as $350 per particular person, Martel says there are alternatives in any respect value factors. The competition is encouraging potential diners to make reservations; throughout final 12 months’s competition, 94 per cent of the restaurant tables at competition occasions have been taken.
Additionally, in the course of the first two weekends in March, the competition will provide greater than 20 free culinary demonstrations and workshops at its Quartier Gourmand web site. “The mission of this place is to democratize gastronomy and the culinary tradition of Quebec, which typically will be seen as elitist,” says Martel.
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Along with its gastronomy program, the competition, meant to make Montreal extra enticing to vacationers in the course of the depths of winter, additionally encompasses 19 concert events together with performances by Child Koala (Feb. 29-March 3), Kronos Quartet (Feb. 25) and Bruno Pelletier (March 2). Additionally, on March 2, Nuit Blanche will happen, involving nearly 100 free actions into the wee hours of the morning.
The competition’s outside web site in downtown Montreal may even be dwelling to a slew of free programming, to be introduced in early 2024. Amongst its sights shall be an elevated and illuminated 1,000-foot-long skating loop and multimedia artwork installations.
For extra data, go to: montrealenlumiere.com.
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