World Spice Festival again this year

The World Spice Festival will be held this year too. Last year's hugely successful World Spice Festival organised by the Sri Lanka Tourist Board is gearing up to unleash its sizzle and spice again this year.

This year too, the event is being driven by the Corporate Services Division of the Sri Lanka Tourist Board together with the five star hotels and top restaurants in the city.

The festival will be held from September 14-21. The World Spice Festival promises to be a bigger and better version this time round. The Sri Lanka Tourist Board will launch the World Spice Festival at the Cinnamon Grand on September 13. Each hotel and restaurant will conduct a food festival for one week in one of their restaurants with a guest master chef taking you through a particular cuisine.

Encouraged by the overwhelming response to the first such festival held last year, the Sri Lanka Tourist Board has envisaged the upcoming festival on an even grander scale.

Chairman of the Sri Lanka Tourist Board, Udaya Nanayakkara, is very optimistic about the event's success and is closely involved with every aspect of the event.

A highlight of the main event of the festival is the Global Spice Village to be held on September 15 and 16 at Sathutu Uyana with easy access and parking for all.

Specialty master chefs will be flown down for the event from various parts of the world. HSBC, one of the largest banking institutions in the world, will be the main sponsor for the World Spice Festival in a bid to bring Sri Lankans a world-class taste of global cuisine. The main electronic media sponsor for the event is Art TV.

The print media sponsors for the event are Upali Newspapers, the Wijeya Group, Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Ltd, Express Newspapers, The Nation, Business Standard and B.T. Options. Some city hotels are enthusiastically involved in ensuring that the master chefs will be on hand to showcase culinary delights from their part of the globe.

The hotels, cafes and restaurants that will participate are Hilton Colombo, Chinese, Taj Samudra: South African, Trans Asia, Vietnamese, Cinnamon Grand, Moroccan, Holiday Inn, Moghul, Ceylon Continental, Indonesian, Mount Lavinia Hotel, Thai, Water's Edge, Singaporean, Gallery Cafe, Thai, Mango Tree, Indian, Galle Face Hotel, Mexican/Malaysian and Raja Bojun, Sri Lankan.