The food and dining festival is being organized under the aegis of Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC), the Bali Tourism Board, Bali Hotel Association, Bali Culinary Professional and Garuda Indonesia.
The festival under the one-month-long tourism promotion program is aimed to provide visitors with a variety of classy dining in Bali courtesy of best restaurateurs and hotels.
Quoting from the festival’s press release, HSBC’s Head of Marketing for Indonesia Maurits Klavert said “We are very excited about this festival as its demonstrates a solid teamwork involving hoteliers, restaurateurs, the tourism board, airlines and HSBC from banking sector, all hand in hand to improve Bali tourism and at the same time providing best offer to our customers”.
The Bali Dining Festival features four interrelated events:
* The Passport to Delight - a booklet highlighting special menus and offers from participating restaurants offering rewards at local spas, restaurants and the chance to win a holiday.
* The Culinary Safaris offers organized tours to three or four restaurants on a single evening with 'starters' in one, main courses in the next and dessert in the last!
* The Chefs Master Classes provides participants the opportunity to join a cooking class in some of the best chef's kitchens.
* Gala Dinners an island-wide celebration of fine dining with special menus and prizes at all participating restaurants on August 31, 2007.
Passports and restaurant booking will be available at all 74 members of the Bali Hotel Association together with 35 participating venues. Bella Rosa, Cascades, Kafe Warisan, Dava, Faces Restaurant, Warung Enak, The Hu’u Bar, Kaizan, La Sal, Raja Balinese are some of the participants of the festival planned to be the annual events of Bali’s culinary delight.
With discounted price for HSBC’s card holder and Garuda passenger, and organized by the Bali Dining Festival Committee, no need to worry about fully booked restaurants because this is one tasty dish you definitely don’t want to miss..