Gaborone Sun restaurant to colour Maitisong Festival

MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer | Wednesday April 21, 2010 00:00

 

The Gaborone Sun Hotel & Casino has decided to chip in this month and take part in the Maitisong Festival to show off their art of cooking to hundreds of fun, food and beverage enthusiasts.

The show will be about the art of cooking and will showcase a starter and a main course as members of the public watch, ask questions and sample the dishes.

The dishes to be paraded are part of over 20 international cuisines unveiled by the Gaborone Sun's Mahogany's last month which were hailed as the most unique tastes ever on the Gaborone dining scene.

The hotel's new tastes are inspired by Italian, French, Japanese, Thai, Pakistani, Singaporean and Indian food cultures, and have also tapped into local and Zambian culinary knowledge, which was integrated into some dishes.

To shake and stir things up a bit, the beverages team of the Gaborone Sun will also showcase how they mix some of the wicked cocktails served at the hotel. These cocktails will thereafter, be on sale on the scene where live entertainment will be provided by Momo, the resident artist of the hotel.  Members of the public will be able to take home a pamphlet that has the recipes of the food and cocktails made on the evening. According to Mahogany restaurant's French sous chef, Sanchez, it has been possible to create brand new flavours drawing from their creativity and knowledge of what is there in the world around them.

'It is very possible to create something out of this world with the knowledge of dish making we have. We just had to use our imagination. This is what diners will now find available here, and you can't find it anywhere else in Botswana,' said the confident chef, who added that he has been in the business for over 10 years in Europe and Asia, before coming to the Gaborone Sun two years ago.

At the launch of their new dishes and wines last month, Gaborone Sun's marketing manager, Andrea du Plessis, announced they have decided that during the Maitisong Festival next month, their chefs would be present to demonstrate to the public the art of dish making where some food will be sampled and sold.

During the festival, on Sunday lucky volunteers will be taught how to prepare some of these Mahogany dishes on the spot and will be free to sell some to the public, said du Plessis.

Mahogany's Restaurant claims that every single dish they recently unveiled is unique to themselves, while the wines have also been carefully selected to go with their secret of dish making.

Perfecting these new look variety of dishes has been a process that took over two years to complete.

First scouts were sent out to 'spy' on all restaurants in town to study what is and what is not available in the market to eventually help the would-be new dish makers with vital information to revolutionise the art of dish making, according to Sanchez.