It's been a big week for tasting delicious food in Melbourne.

It's been a big week for tasting delicious food in Melbourne. The biggest event on the global culinary stage has been taking place in Melbourne over the last week. Melbourne has pulled out the big guns when it comes to World Rated, Chefs. They're in the middle of 2017 Melbourne Food and Wine Festival 31 Mar ~ 9 Apr Over the weekend you could have taken a Masterclass - 8 chefs whose restaurants have featured on The World's 50 Best Restaurants list. They also Estrella Damm Gastronomy Congress. On Monday the world's best chefs at #50BestTalks LIVE If that's not enough Tonight, 5th April they will hold The World's 50 Best Restaurants 2017. To be honest, it's not often I'm Jealous of Melbourne. But this would be a close 2nd to watching the Swans in the AFL Grand Final at MCG. So I thought we should take a look at some of the Gastronomy highlights.

Masterclass by 8 World classes Chefs

So for $35 you could watch & learn from 8 chefs create some of their signature dishes, whose restaurants made the World's 50 Best Restaurants list.

Chef-owner of Milan's Ristorante Cracco

**** Classic Italian cooking reinvented... Ristorante Cracco has two Michelin stars and has been on the World's 50 Best List three times since 2007... W50B ranking: Ristorante Cracco #42 (2007); #22 (2009); #34 (2011) **Signature Dishes - ** Milanese Cotoletta, which is more like veal carpaccio than the traditional heavy breaded cutlet; or his Egg Yolk Tagliolini, which is not pasta but cured egg yolks cut into pasta-like strands, marinated and topped with shaved white truffle...

Wylie Dufresne wd~50 & ALDER Restaurant New York

**** America's most inventive boundary-pushing chef... W50B ranking: W50B ranking: wd~50 #34 (2005), #45 (2010) Signature Dishes - deconstructed Eggs Benedict (fried hollandaise, yolks cooked sous-vide, bacon wisps and English muffin crumbs), pickled beef tongue with fried mayonnaise; coconut and carrot plated to look like a fried egg; and "Everything-Bagel Ice Cream"... In 2013 Wylie Dufresne was honored with the 2013 James Beard Foundation award for Best Chef New York City. He had been previously nominated for the same award six times.

Zaiyu Hasegawa Den restaurant Tokyo

**** Tokyo's offbeat rising culinary star... Den is currently No. 77 in the 2016 World's 50 Best Restaurant list. W50B ranking: W50B ranking: Den #77 (2016) Signature Dishes - His modern kaiseki a traditional multi-course dinner involving small intricate dishes is served with creative flair and a whimsical sense of humour. This can be found in chef's trademark "Dentucky Fried Chicken" served in a comical faux-Kentucky Fried Chicken box, or a smiley face carved into a slice of carrot hidden in a colorful salad....

David Thompson Nahm Bangkok

**** The best Thai chef in the world... **W50B ranking:**Nahm Bangkok #37 (2016) Signature Dishes - Mashed prawn curry with betel leaf & Spicy pork with mint and crunchy rice. He Takes his inspiration from century-old cookbooks to punchy street food, Thompson melds together traditional Thai ingredients and techniques to create bold but sophisticated modern masterpieces... David Thompson believes the traditional Thai meal is an exercise in balance, with the dynamic interplay of hot and sour, sweet and salty.

Jorge Vallejo is the man behind Mexico City's Quintonil

**** Trailblazer of modern Mexican cooking... **W50B ranking:**Quintonil #12 (2016) Signature Dishes - the ingredients he uses in his restaurant are sourced from within 30 metres of his kitchen. Quintonil has an impressive garden which reflects on his exciting menu, placeing greens and vegetables at its centre. Mexico is represented through the produce used such as cactus, mamey fruit and plantains...      

Ashley Palmer-Watts Dinner by Heston London

**** Heston Blumenthal's right-hand man... **W50B ranking:**Dinner by Heston #45 (2016) Ranking in the top 50 World's Best Restaurant Awards for the past 5 years, the menu at Dinner is the result of years of research exploring Britain's culinary past, hours spent consulting with food historians and delving into the archives at the British Library... Signature Dishes The infamous Meat Fruit an orb of chicken liver parfait designed to resemble a mandarin and Tipsy Cake brandy-soaked brioche served with caramelised roasted pineapple...

Gastón Acurio Astrid y Gastón Lima Peru

**** The powerhouse who has introduced the world to Peruvian cuisine... W50B ranking: W50B ranking: Astrid Gastón Lima #30 (2016) With a growing empire of over 40 restaurants in 12 countries, from fine diners to those hawking anticuchos (grilled cow hearts), Acurio has almost single-handedly put Peruvian food on the map... Signature Dishes "peking guinea pig" with purple corn pancakes and rocoto chilli and hoisin sauce; octopus ceviche; and lucuma ice-cream.... Astrid y Gastón the multiculturality of Peru and the world has a meeting point, a place to fall in love: Lima.

Grant Achatz - Alinea Restaurant Chicago

**** The alchemist at the razor edge of art and food... **W50B ranking:**Alinea #15 (2016) Before striking out on his own, Achatz was sous chef at Thomas Keller's iconic restaurant The French Laundry... Signature Dishes His 20 sensory courses, each one more fantastical than the last. Take the edible balloon, made from green apple taffy and filled with real helium so it floats. Or Hot Potato, Cold Potato a ball of potato, cooked in clarified butter and topped with black truffle, Parmesan, butter, and chives, dumped into a bowl of cold potato soup.... Check out the //www.melbournefoodandwine.com.au

The world's best chefs at #50BestTalks LIVE - Edible ideas

It's not often you get to hear, the finest chefs for a series of special talk shows in Australia. Daniel Humm from Eleven Madison Park, No.3 in The World's 50 Best Restaurants 2016... Will Guidara from Eleven Madison Park, No.3 in The World's 50 Best Restaurants 2016... Jordi Roca from El Celler de Can Roca, No.2 in The World's 50 Best Restaurants 2016... Gaggan Anand from Gaggan, No.1 in Asia's 50 Best Restaurants 2016 and No.23 in The World's 50 Best Restaurants 2016... Grant Achatz from Alinea, No.15 in The World's 50 Best Restaurants 2016...

Estrella Damm Gastronomy Congress - "Approaching High Creativity"

Chefs Jock Zonfrillo, Virgilio Martinez, Albert Adria & Joan Roca Estrella Damm is holing its sixth Gastronomy Congress in Melbourne, a one-of-a-kind experience featuring the world's best chefs, on Monday April 3rd at Maia, Atlantic Wharf. Estrella Damm weaves the best ingredients and the spirit of Barcelona to create a golden lager like no other. As Official Beer Partner of The World's 50 Best Restaurants Awards, we are proud to present the Chefs' Choice Award on April 5. Wishing the best of luck to all chefs participating Previously the Estrella Damm Gastronomy Congress has been held to Lisbon, Miami & London. Estrella Damm Gastronomy Congress is a unique and exclusive live event, exploring the theme of high creativity, featuring the culinary skills and demonstrations by some of the World's 50 Best chefs.

Joan Roca El Celler de Can Roca Spain

     Roca is known for elaborating traditional cuisine together with avant-garde techniques.... **Number 2 Restaurant, three Michelin Starred El Celler de Can Roca**  Voted number 1 in The World's 50 Best in 2013 and 2015, and was also the winner of the Chefs' Choice Award. ... Check out [El Celler de Can Roca Spain](//cellercanroca.com/menu/menu_a.html)        

Virgillio Martínez Central Peru

     Virgillio Martínez from the World's 50 Best Number 4 Restaurant, one Michelin Starred Central... Peruvian chef and restaurateur Virgilio Martínez, named number 4 by World's 50 Best and the number 1 chef in Latin America in 2016.  He is known for his use of applying modern cooking techniques to indigenous Peruvian ingredients.... Check out [El Central Peru](//centralrestaurante.com.pe/en/)        

Albert Adrià Tickets in Barcelona

     Albert Adrià from World's 50 Best Number 29 Restaurant, one Michelin Starred Tickets in Barcelona... Albert Adrià was part of the creative evolution of elBulli . He started as an innovative pastry chef and evolved into a diversified and multicultural gastronomic offer in the Tickets restaurant where he focuses on the world of tapas, combining tradition with the most "bullion" avant-garde./li>  In 2015, Albert Adrià is recognized as Best Pastry Chef in the World by Restaurant magazine , which prepares the prestigious list of the 50 best restaurants in the world. Check out [Tickets in Barcelona](//www.ticketsbar.es/en)          

Jock Zonfrillo - Orana Adelaide

      Jock Zonfrillo from Adelaide Restaurant Orana, which was named Restaurant of the Year at The Advertiser Food Awards in 2014 and 2016... Orana, which means "welcome" in some Aboriginal languages, is an intimate space home to Chef and Owner Jock Zonfrillo’s findings, philosophy and cuisine from over 16 years of research and exploration of Australian land, produce, people and history.... Restaurant Orana’s menu honours Australia’s incredibly varied food history, celebrates the nutritional properties of Indigenous ingredients, respects the produce’s relationship with the land and strives to integrate all this to define Australia’s modern gastronomic identity.... Check out [Orana Adelaide](//restaurantorana.com/)     So on my count that’s 16 Chefs featured on The World's 50 Best Restaurants list. So if you get the chance you can still get to Melbourne to 2017 Melbourne Food and Wine Festival 31 Mar ~ 9 Apr 

The World's 50 Best Restaurants list 2017

Check out the The World's 50 Best Restaurants list 2017 If you can’t get down you can still follow The World's 50 Best Restaurants 2017 Live Stream. The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2017 will be held on 5 April in Melbourne, Australia, at 8 PM local time (10 AM GMT): the event, for which S.Pellegrino and Acqua Panna are the official water, will be livestreamed on this page celebrating its 15th anniversary and will be staged at the city's Royal Exhibition Building. Livestream The World's 50 Best Restaurants list 2017

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