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Festa Novello 2000:
a diner’s delight
Food is a serious business. As taste buds become more adventurous,
chefs rise to pop star status and people search for real gourmet
cuisine; food is the new sex and restaurants are the new pleasure
domes.
It follows then that hot on the success of last year’s
culinary celebration, the announcement of Festa Novello 2000
will have ‘many-mouths-a-watering’ in anticipation
of this year’s menu. This is especially true if last year’s
numbers are anything to go by when Malta’s favourite chef,
Michael Cauchi, welcomed over 1,400 people to his restaurant
Il Re del Pesce to eat, drink and savour the delights of the
Festa Novello ‘99.
Festa Novello celebrates Grappolini’s first olive harvest
of the year. This harvest produces Felicita, a truly elitist
oil whose unique personality is appreciated in the dishes offered
during the ‘Festa’ period at Il Re del Pesce. The
ritual hand picking and pressing of the Tuscan olives that produces
Felicita is even more significant this year being the very first
harvest of the millenium.
Hosted by gourmet lovers Living Interiors, the hugely talented
Michael Cauchi & his team, and sponsors Paolo Bonnici with
Beaujolais Noveau 2000 by Bouchard Père e Fils, Festa
Novello 2000 gives food lovers the opportunity to fulfil their
every fantasy. The menu, (so far a secret), promises a fusion
of Maltese and Tuscan food that will reawaken and tantalise
even the most jaded of palettes.
The Festa Novello is held in a deliberately unfancy environment
where the ambience is relaxed and friendly and the dress informal.
But the food, well this is serious gourmet, lip smacking stuff
that could compete with even the best Tuscan Mama.
Along with the ‘Beaujolais Noveau’ week, the Festa
Novello looks set to become a yearly date in every food lover’s
diary. The first banquet will be created for the media on Thursday
23 November at Il Re del Pesce. Following this the Festa Novello
menu will be available from 24 November till Sunday 3 December.
For bookings call Il Re Del Pesce on 636353 or email Michael
at redelpesce@vol.net.mt.
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