Relish Hyderabad Food Festival 2014 (Day 1)

Celebrate and enjoy the best cuisines from across the globe, that too without leaving your own city. A never before event to Hyderabad, is sure to leave you relishing for a long time.

Relish Hyderabad, the 3 day Food, Drink and Music Festival began Friday evening at Hitex and will continue till 2nd November. The three day festival features city's 16 hottest restaurants, who will put up pop-up kitchens with their chefs churning out global specialties. These include: A'la Liberty; The Oriental Blossom, Tabla, Seventh Heaven, F Cafe, Rotis, The Spicy Venue, Four Seasons, Cinnamon Fusion, Little Italy, Simply South, Ziti Comfort, Via Milano, Eat India Company and Igril.

Each of the participating restaurants will have their onsite kitchen and shall be featuring four of their signature dishes and one of their iconic dish, together there will be 80 specialty dishes for the visitors to feast on. Food is served in bite size portions so that they can taste a variety of their choicest cuisines at the most affordable budget prices. The food lovers can enjoy the open air setting with music and entertainment programs.

"The objective of the festival is to tell whole world that the city is the home for all kinds of global cuisines and promote the city as an international city. Relish Hyderabad is part of the "Happening Hyderabad" initiative of the Government of Telangana" informed Mr. K.V. Nagendra Prasad, Chief Operating Officer of HITEX.

"Relish is modeled out a concept known internationally, where popular restaurants set-up their pop-up outlets for few days to celebrate food and do things differently than they regularly do at their restaurants. There is competition, celebration and excitement, all built around food", said Mr. Anil Arora, Director of Mumbai based Next Events, the joint organizers.

The other salient features of the event are Celebrity Chef Theatre, Cookery Contest, Lifestyle Bazar and Kids Zone. The new radio taxi service provider Uber is providing free services to the visitor of Relish Hyderabad.

Celebrity Chef Theatre is a concept managed by Culinary Academy of India where the Ten top Chefs of the city will demonstrate their culinary skills

For students, working professionals (other than Food & Beverage Industry) and Home makers, The Relish offers "The Great Hyderabad Home Cook Challenge", where they can participate to showoff their culinary skills. Competition will be held in two categories Appetizers and Desserts.

Prelims for the Appetizer round will be held on 31st Oct and for the Dessert round will be held on 1st Nov, finals will be held on 2nd Nov. Home Cook Challenge is being conducted by expert chefs from Culinary Academy of India. Whirlpool Kitchen equipment worth Rs.2 lakhs will be given as prizes to the winners.

A small lifestyle bazaar and kids zone is part of the event to engage the visitors apart from live music. Over ten thousand food lovers are expected on the three days of the festival together, which will be open between 6 to 10 pm on 31st October and 12 to 4pm and 6 to 10pm on 1st and 2nd November. The entry to the festival is by way of a nominal entry fee Rs 200 for adults and Rs 100 for kids. Entry fee is waived for those who purchase food coupons worth Rs 1100/-