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November 8-10, 2024

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Restaurant Series

Indulgent kitchen takeover and ‘four-hands’ dinners with international guest chefs and homegrown talents.

Kita Conversations

Keynote speeches, fireside chats and panels discussing challenges and trends in the F&B industry

Big Sunday Barbecue

Casual multi-chef collaborative cookups featuring the best pitmasters around.

COCKTAIL EVENING - NOV 8

A cocktail evening with the finest bartenders in Kota Kinabalu coming together to create a series of cocktails using and infuse exotic herbs and endemic fruits from Sabah, with some tasty bites to boot.

The Chefs:

  • Oliver Truesdale-Jutras of Re:Growth, Singapore and Folia, Penang
  • Ho Jun Yip of Hyatt Centric, Kota Kinabalu

The Bartenders:

  • Steve Stephen, ON23 Sky Bar at Hyatt Centric
  • Junior Rizal Utto, Flips
  • Osmund Bernard, Mari Drinks

Cocktail Evening 
Date: November 8, 2024
Venue: ON23 Sky Bar @ Hyatt Centric, Kota Kinabalu

RESTAURANT SERIES - NOV 9

9 November 2024

Ray Adriansyah (Locavore NXT, Bali) x Linn Yong (Limau & Linen, KK)

Limau & Linen, Kota Kinabalu

RM159.00 per pax, nett, food only

9 November 2024

Aidan Low (Akâr Dining) x Raphael Peter Lee (Oitom, KK)

Oitom, Kota Kinabalu

RM476.00 per pax, nett, food only

KITA CONVERSATIONS - NOV 10

A series of keynote speeches, fireside chats and panel discussions focusing on trends, obstacles and opportunities in the F&B industry in both Kota Kinabalu and further afield today.

  • Oliver Truesdale-Jutras of Re:Growth, Singapore and Folia, Penang
  • Ray Adriansyah of Locavore NXT, Bali 
  • Josephine Lu of Jaws & Claws Chocolate
  • David Lee of Ah Yen Traditional Fried Pork, Singapore
  • Johnson Wong of Gēn and Communal Table, Penang
  • Raphael Peter Lee of Oitom, Kota Kinabalu

Kita Conversations
Date: November 10, 2024
Venue: Hyatt Centric, Kota Kinabalu
Tickets: RM28.00 per pax

Big Sunday Barbecue - NOV 10

The causal, smoky, and ever-so-tasty hallmark of Kita Food Festival will descend on Kota Kinabalu on November 10.

  • Darren Teoh (Dewakan, Kuala Lumpur) x Oliver Regis Hinson (Shangri-La Tanjung Aru, Kota Kinabalu)
  • Oliver Truesdale-Jutras (Re:Growth, Singapore; Folia, Penang) x Ho Jun Yip (Hyatt Centric, Kota Kinabalu)
  • Johnson Wong (Gēn, Penang) x Sidney Disimon Suchart (Hearth, Kota Kinabalu)

November 10, 2024
Shangri-La Tanjung Aru, Kota Kinabalu
RM178.00 per pax, nett, for 6 tapas-size BBQ dishes

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November 8-10: Kita Food Festival Kota Kinabalu!

25 Sept 2024

Save the date: Kota Kinabalu November 8-10 2024.

It’s our last set of festivities for the year, and we’re going out with a bang. This time a mini-Weekender in the gloriously gorgeous stomping grounds of Sabah.

There will be a range of events happening, including:

A cocktail evening on November 8 with the best bartenders in KK collaborating on a series of cocktails which use and infuse exotic herbs and endemic fruits from Sabah at On23 Sky Bar at  Hyatt Centric, Kota Kinabalu. 

Ray Adriansyah of Locavore NXT in Bali with Linn Yong at Limau & Linen, KK will be hitting the pans together for a long and langerous brunch on November 9 at Limau & Linen.

That night, Aidan Low of Akâr Dining, KL and Raphael Peter Lee at Oitom, KK, two Malaysian chefs with a common flair for turning the finest local ingredients into haute cuisine will join hands for a degustation dinner.

Kota Kinabalu Weekender is supported by:

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