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FOOD – FOUR HANDS

Above are two of the most important names when it comes to study and culture of food, Jeremiah Tower, on the left, and Don Sloan, CEO of the London-based Oxford Cultural Collective OCC. They will be sitting together again on Monday 30th January 2023 at a unique Night At Stars.  Jeremiah Tower was owner/operator of San Francisco’s famous Stars restaurant (a Harvard alum, he’s written several books and he was the raison d’être for Netflix’s The Last Magnificent). For this one-off London extravaganza, he will be accompanied, on the culinary front, by Dominique Crenn, a Stars disciple who went on to gain three Michelin stars for Atelier Crenn, also in San Francisco. Sponsors include Iconic Luxury Hotels’ MAYFAIR TOWNHOUSE LONDON.

 The invitation-only evening starts with cocktails at the new US Embassy in London’s Nine Elms district hosted by Ambassador Jane Hartley. It continues at the 1950s-style AvroKO-designed, 144-seat Darby’s, which opened May 2019. Darby’s is inspired by a 1950’s New York aesthetic and it has a kitchen with open-fire cooking, an onsite bakery, and a central Oyster bar and grill surrounded with hanging foliage.

Oxford Cultural Collective has a powerful advisory board that includes Ken Hom, seeks to pacify the world via food, wine and culture – one ongoing initiative is the establishment of an international Academy of Hospitality and Gastronomy.

Ah Four Hands.. this November, two Canadian greats get together, RITZ-CARLTON MONTREAL, led by co-owner Andrew Torriani, hosts MANOIR HOVEY. There will be four-hand tasting menus 25-26 November, with Montreal-based Maison Boulud chef Romain Cagnat cooking with Manoir Hovey’s Alexandre Vachon.

Let’s hear, again, The Last Magnificent: