For the Refugee Food Festival 2024, 11 restaurants in Paris and the Paris region are entrusting their kitchens to refugee chefs to showcase the best of world cuisine. A wonderful initiative to help change the way people look at the status of refugees, to be discovered from June 12 to 24, 2024.
For two weeks and for the 9th year running, 11 restaurants in and around Paris are lending their kitchens to refugee chefs for the Refugee Food Festival 2024, under the patronage ofAlessandra Montagne, chef at Nosso and Tempero in Paris.
"The Refugee Food Festival's mission is to raise awareness, provide information, promote the career paths and talents of exiles, enable the professional integration of refugees in the fragile catering sector, and bring people together around the table," declare the main stakeholders.
From June 12 to 24, 2024, you'll have the chance to sample dishes from Syria, Algeria, Morocco, Sudan, Georgia, West Africa, Afghanistan... in some of your favorite Parisian restaurants! On the program: round tables, cooking workshops, festive brunches and 4-hand menus for a feast of flavors from elsewhere.
Let's have a look at the detailed program?
Refugee Food Festival 2024 program:
- 12/06 chez Nosso: Gastronomic dinner with Palestino-Brazilian cuisine, by Lulwa Elsarraj and Alessandra Montagne
- 14/06 au Petit Panisse: Franco-Afghan lunch, by Waris Ahmad and Alberto Rebolledo
- 14/06 at Café Jaune (Saint-Ouen): Festive evening with Franco-Tibetan street-food and DJ set, by Tshering Kelsang and Alcidia Vulbeau
- 15/06 chez Plural (20th arrondissement): Ivorian collaboration brunch, pastries and coffee, by Aïcha Soumahoro and Lulwa Elsarraj
- 06/15 at Ernest (19th arrondissement): Round-table discussion on food and migration, followed by a Greek-Ukrainian dinner, by Olena Fedorishyna and Niki Kopcke
- 16/06 at La Résidence (12th arrondissement): Syrian brunch, by Doha Elkhaldy, Haitham Karajay and the team of integration cooks
- 06/19 at Buttes Snack Bar (19th arrondissement): Franco-Syrian dinner, by Maha Achkar and Clément Vezat
- 21/06 at La Tréso (Malakoff): Franco-Gabonese lunch, by Christian Océan Ayrault and Domitille Mounier
- 06/21 at Lago (11th arrondissement): Franco-Algerian gourmet dinner, by Assia Zelbah and Chloé Charles
- 22/06 chez Hoba: "Sport & cuisine" day organized in partnership with Kabubu. On the program: cooking workshop, sports class, migration fresco workshop and photo exhibition.
- 24/06 at Chalet des Îles Daumesnil : Closing evening with Ukrainian and Palestinian-inspired dinner, by Olena Fedorishyna, Lulwa Elsarraj, Ruba Khoury (Dirty Lemon) and Sugio Yamagushi.
The Refugee Food Festival 2024 is a must for all food lovers. Don't forget to book directly on the festival website!
