Food Zurich - The Festival for Epicures

The newly founded umbrella organization FOOD ZURICH combines already established events, such as the Street Food Festival or The Epicure, with many new events for young and old. Over the course of eleven days, the program includes Chabis city dishes, wild-growth cooking squashes, city beekeeper workshops, tours of underground kitchens, master classes with star chefs and a big FOOD ZURICH party at Zurich's Engrosmarkt. For the first edition, the Basque Country could be won as a guest region. The guest chefs of the Basque Culinary Center will represent the culinary stronghold at several events.From top chefs and star hotelsThe city's most successful chefs are committed to FOOD ZURICH, with the kitchen teams of Zurich's best-known 5-star hotels and the Basque Culinary Center from the Basque Country getting in the mood for the coming days of enjoyment at the Opening Night at the Jelmoli FOOD MARKET on September 8. Tal Ronnen, the US star chef for vegan cuisine, will conjure up unique dishes together with Oliver Rais at Baur au Lac. The Hamburg top chef Norman Fischer will exclusively open his kitchen for a taster day and thus enable one (!) person to raise cooking skills to star level. The culinary skills of his compatriot Holger Stromberg, the chef of the German national football team, will guide through the evening at the Fifa World Football Museum. Master chef Pascal Schmutz serves up an aphrodisiac 4-course menu during a game tournament in the exclusive PM's Room at the Swiss Casino Zurich. And the crème de la crème of top international chefs will be cooking at The Dolder Grand when star chef Heiko Niederer invites guests to the third edition of THE EPICURE.The daily ration FoodThese events are a perennial favorite: At the popular Street Food Festival, up to 70 selected and changing street food specialists offer their delicacies from all over the world on the grounds of the former freight station in Zurich. Thanks to daily guided tours by Candrian Catering AG, those interested can dive deep into the underground of the main station and gain a unique insight into one of the largest underground production facilities in Europe. Kramer Gastronomie offers a real taste parcours: with the "Running Dinner" you can enjoy three courses in three different restaurants, the sporty courses in between lead you to the most beautiful corners of the city. And under the name "vier & eins", the "House of Food" is being staged at Zwinglistrasse 18. Four restaurants will be created there in four apartments, and FOOD ZURICH will be given a home for eleven days in the unique bar of an art gallery.Some more events - something for everyoneFor the first time, amateur bakers have the unique opportunity to learn the craft of beaver baking at the Leibacher Biber-Manufaktur. With the best chocolatière in the world, sweet tooths between the ages of 6 and 12 are allowed to create, decorate and decorate. Two school classes of young migrants and asylum seekers cook an exotic dinner with regional ingredients inspired by their home countries. Maurice Maggi - a gifted cook, guerrilla gardener and great connoisseur of the local flora - takes his guests on a journey through Zurich's plant world. The Bachser Märt presents its guests of the "Captain's Dinner" on the Rhine ship Kaiserstuhl the variety of farm products of the Bachsertal. At the big FOOD ZURICH party in Zurich's Engrosmarkt, Switzerland's largest fresh food market in Zurich West, there will be a market with regional manufactures and small producers, a soul food club and a Beiz with 20 Zurich restaurants to discover. There will be eating, drinking and partying until well after midnight. And under the motto "Autumn eats colorfully," FOOD ZURICH and Slow Food Youth invite the public on Sunday, September 18, to bring their own food and sit down together at a long table. The Eat-In is under the patronage of the Environmental and Health Protection of the City of Zurich.Organic & Fair - eat sustainablyWhat we eat and how we handle food has an impact on the environment - locally and globally. On the way to a 2000-watt society, therefore, nutrition plays a central role. The hospitality industry has also discovered that sustainability and Zurich's enjoyable lifestyle go together perfectly. Restaurateurs use products from the region to save transport distances, focus on seasonal cuisine, offer a selection of meat-free menus and handle food carefully to avoid food waste. Supported by the City of Zurich's Environmental and Health Protection Department, various events on the topic of sustainability will take place during FOOD ZURICH - from workshops on fermentation or preservation to the preparation of seasonal vegetables from leaf to root to insect cooking classes.So en ChabisOne herb, 60 different recipes: the autumn vegetable cabbage, or "chabis" in Swiss German, is as diverse as the gastronomic scene. More than 60 Zurich restaurants - from traditional to exotic - serve a city dish made from "Chabis" created especially for FOOD ZURICH.The website to FOOD ZURICH is online, tickets are available now.