Flavours of 50 Best

Flavours of 50 Best offers an evening brunch experience at Graphos Social Kitchen within the Hilton Yas Island hotel, featuring dishes from some of the world’s leading chefs, including the one and only Mauro Colagreco.

Alongside an extensive food and drink offering – from lobster counters to cocktail bars, live barbecue stations to smoothie carts – four globally renowned gastronomic names will each serve a signature dish to all diners, as well as demonstrate its plating and discuss its origin and inspiration in live kitchen interviews.

Joining us in the kitchen, Mexican chef Santiago Lastra, Japanese maestro Hiroyasu Kawate, Mauro Colagreco and Asia’s Best Pastry Chef winner Maira Yeo.

 

AED 495

Saturday 28th January

Graphos Social Kitchen, Hilton Abu Dhabi, Yas Island

Darren Teoh is the chef and founder of Dewakan in Kuala Lumpur, voted The Best Restaurant in Malaysia by Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants 2022. Famous for championing the indigenous produce of his home country, Teoh is Malaysia’s most high-profile culinary figure, but remains both passionate and humble. Dewakan’s food will find a one-night-only home at Otoro, the first Abu Dhabi restaurant from chef Akmal Anuar, who co-founded 3 Fils – named The Best Restaurant in Middle East & North Africa 2022 – as well as Goldfish and 11 Woodfire in Dubai.

Friday 27th January

Otoro, Abu Dhabi

AED 625 per person

Named MENA’s Best Female Chef 2022, Bahraini-born Tala Bashmi has elevated her Manama restaurant, Fusions by Tala, to prestigious heights in recent years. A skilled advocate of updating and reinventing traditional regional dishes, she will cook in Abu Dhabi for the first time at the beautiful Oak Room, the Edition hotel’s signature steakhouse overseen by celebrated British chef Tom Aikens. 

Saturday 28th January

Oak Room, Abu Dhabi Edition

The Alajmo clan are arguably the first family of Italian cuisine – and Massimiliano its most celebrated son. A culinary prodigy who was the youngest chef in history to gain three Michelin stars at Le Calandre, the family’s flagship restaurant in Rubano, north-east Italy, he is now established as one of the great Italian chefs of the 21st century. He will showcase his innovative take on classics alongside Chef Luigi Stinga of Talea by Antonio Guida within the emblematic Emirates Palace Mandarin Oriental.

Sunday 29th January

Talea by Antonio Guida, Emirates Palace

Hailing from Canada, but based in Italy for almost a decade, Jessica Rosval is the head chef at Casa Maria Luigia, the luxury boutique guesthouse-restaurant from Massimo Bottura and Lara Gilmore of Osteria Francescana fame. There, Rosval recreates a selection of classic dishes from OF (formerly The World’s Best Restaurant, now part of the Best of the Best hall of fame), as well as introducing her own specialities. She is the perfect match for Café Milano, notorious for its warm hospitality and authentic dishes, for a unique Italian-accented evening.

Tuesday 31st January

Café Milano, Four Seasons Hotel, Al Maryah Island

870 AED per person

Lennox Hastie is the grill master behind Firedoor, the outstanding barbecue-led restaurant in Sydney. A reservation at Firedoor is fast becoming one of the most exclusive seats in Australia. The menu will be served family style, with Hastie’s signature 200-day dry-aged beef rib, his legendary paperbark grilled fish and ultra-smoky crab and corn all taking center stage.

BBQ Al Qasr, Emirates Palace