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.
Then, on 10 November, Hyatt Centric will host a mini Kita Conversations, with speeches from Oliver Truesdale Jutras of Re:Growth, Singapore, and other culinary experts and the sessions will be moderated by Darren Teoh of Dewakan, KL.
Last but not least, the grand finale Big Sunday Barbecue will be held in the bucolic grounds of the Shangri-La Tanjung Aru. There will be three teams of chefs smokin’ it up, including Johnson Wong, Gēn Restaurant (Penang), Oliver Truesdale Jutras, Re:Growth (Singapore), Emerson Teoh, Hearth (Kota Kinabalu), Ho Jun Yip, Hyatt Centric (Kota Kinabalu) and Oliver Regis Hinson, Shangri-La Tanjung Aru (Kota Kinabalu).
Stick around for more details, coming to you very soon. Tickets go on sale October 3 for our emailer subscribers.
