So it’s one week to go before the 2017 Good Food and Wine Show for all you Jo’burgers out there. So this year the world’s first celebrity chef and enfant terrible Marco Pierre White and South Africa’s first Michelin-starred chef Jan Hendrik van der Westhuizen will be turning up the heat as the international headliners, so please do make your way down there to check out their culinary master pieces.

South Africa’s largest culinary event making its way to Johannesburg at the Ticketpro Dome from Friday 28 July until Sunday 30 July 2017. The latest foodie trends will be dished up and South African foodies will have the chance to interact with the line-up of exciting food personalities, including headline chef, restaurateur, and foodie Joao Da Fonseca, popularly known as J’Something, who will share his secret recipes by preparing a tasty feast for the shows. Not only will he be cooking but J’Something will take to the stage to perform his music as the leading man of popular band Mi Casa. On the Good food and Wine Show menu are Jenny Morris, Lentswe Bhengu, Sarah Graham, Neill Anthony, Lisa Raleigh,  Sherwyn Weaich, and Vanessa Marx.

For those of you who  enjoy a fine glass or a bottle of wine Lloyd Jusa  from the Saxon Hotel, Gregory Mutambe from the 12 Apostles Hotel, will be sharing their fine wine knowledge with the crowd.

The dome floor will be divided into nine specific exhibition areas for attendees to explore Market, Street Food, Gourmet, Baking, Kids, Wellness, Lifestyle, Wine, Beer, and Alcohol.

British chef Marco Pierre White has been dubbed the world’s first celebrity chef was last in SA in 2014 and will be returning in 2017 to headline the Good Food & Wine Show for the first time. Jan Hendrik van der Westhuizen is South Africa’s first Michelin star chef and owner of JAN Restaurant in Nice on the French Riviera. All visitors to this year’s show will get a chance to watch White and Van der Westhuizen in action daily, free of charge, at the Chefs’ Open Theatre.

This year, the show hosts 9 theatres, of which 7 are free of charge for, serving up even more value for those attending. The theatres include:

• Eat Well/Live Well, Wine Theatre,
• Baking Theatre;
• Cake Deco Lab;
• Chefs’ Table;
• Chefs’ Open Theatre;
• Cooking with Chefs;
• The Kids Deco Lab and;
• The SCASA Barista Championships.

Check out and follow Good Food and Wine Show social media for more info

• Twitter @goodfoodSA
• Instagram @goodfoodsa and
• Facebook facebook.com/GoodFoodandWineShowSA ,

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