Four Taiwanese restaurants will join about 1,300 restaurants worldwide in serving special gourmet menus tomorrow to celebrate French cuisine, the French Office in Taipei said.
The quartet were chosen to participate in the “Good France” campaign organized by the French government for the first time this year to celebrate French gastronomy, office Director Olivier Richard said.
“We are glad to see Taiwanese restaurants on the list,” Richard said. “It is going to be a pleasant encounter between Taiwanese and French cuisine.”
A Table in Tainan, Le Mout in Taichung and two restaurants in Taipei — Paris 1930 at the Landis Hotel and Alleno Yannick’s STAY — were selected from restaurants in 150 countries for the event, which commemorates Les Diners d’Epicure launched in 1912 by chef and restauranter Auguste Escoffier.
Richard said Escoffier, known as the father of modern French cuisine, created a “one day, one menu” event to have all the cities around the world to serve as many guests as possible with a single menu.
The French government has taken the idea a step further this year, bringing different types of French restaurants worldwide together to celebrate French cuisine’s listing in the “Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity” category by UNESCO in 2010, he said.
Each restaurant will showcase vibrant, open and innovative cuisine, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.
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