The Great Food Festival

What:  The favorite fes­ti­val of ‘food­ies’ Singapore’s Great food fes­ti­val see’s more than 50 of the worlds great­est chefs descend onto Sen­tosa Island in the lit­tle red dot and show­case hun­dreds of their best dish­es for as lit­tle as $10 a pop, with inter­na­tion­al and local delights on offer from Miche­lin Star chefs and Singapore’s best restau­rants in the ‘Star Chef Are­na,’ deserts and pas­tries avail­able for those with a sweet tooth in the ‘Rollin’ Sweet Times’ sec­tion, sam­ple world­wide her­itage food down Her­itage Lane and dine at the apt­ly named night­ly ‘Feast of Kings’ an all you can eat feast with a medieval style theme.

Along­side this there is also the chance for the wannabe Miche­lin star chefs to under­take 45-minute-long train­ing ses­sions with the celebri­ty chefs or make your­self extreme­ly pop­u­lar at home by under­go­ing a desert train­ing course, which com­bined with the wine tast­ing and gin bar and the adult inflat­able play­ground on offer means that the Great Food Fes­ti­val gives you a chance to not only expe­ri­ence the vol­ume of enter­tain­ment that Sen­tosa offers but most impor­tant­ly explore a true food jour­ney.

When: The Great food fes­ti­val takes place over the course of four days, usu­al­ly on the last week­end of Sep­tem­ber.

Where: The Great food Fes­ti­val takes place at the Resorts World on the Island of Sen­tosa which is part of Sin­ga­pore, and also home to Uni­ver­sal Stu­dios, Bungee Jump­ing and the beach­es which make up the south­ern­most point of Asia – you can expect the major­i­ty of the food fes­ti­val to take place in the Resorts world con­ven­tion Cen­ter.

Dura­tion: The food fes­ti­val lasts for four days, with the Star Chef Are­na open dur­ing the day with not max­i­mum time lim­it to attend and the Feast of Kings tak­ing place each evening, for the train­ing ses­sions which last 45 min­utes and take place across the last two days of the fes­ti­val it’s advised to check the sched­ule from the more infor­ma­tion sec­tion below and book well in advance.

Tick­ets: Entry to the  Star Chef Are­na is nor­mal­ly free – but it’s advised to bud­get at least $100 SGD to make sure you get to sam­ple some of the delights on offer with prices tend­ing to start from $10, for the ‘Feast of Kings’ and ‘Con­nois­seur Col­lec­tion’ you’ll need to apply in advance and reg­is­ter your inter­est at [www.tgff.com.sg] with only a select num­ber of peo­ple allowed entry into the feasts.

Alter­na­tive­ly, there is also the Food fes­ti­val expe­ri­ence pack at $50 which includes all day access to the chef train­ing, free park­ing and $45 dol­lars’ worth of food vouch­ers for the fes­ti­val again avail­able at [www.tgff.com.sg].

Need to Know: Sin­ga­pore is incred­i­ble safe and a great coun­try to vis­it – but be mind­ful of the aver­age 29c tem­per­a­tures across the day (the venues and MRT have air con­di­tion­ing) so it’s advised to bring a good amount of sun block and also be pre­pared for the occa­sion­al trop­i­cal storm.

Sin­ga­pore and espe­cial­ly Sen­tosa can also be a lit­tle pricey, but giv­en the size of the coun­try it’s advised to stay out­side of Sen­tosa and com­mute in to the fes­ti­val (rough­ly 20 min­utes and con­nect­ed by all major trans­port hubs) so that you can have a lit­tle bit more mon­ey to indulge your taste buds at the fes­ti­val.

For those who just can’t get enough of food the famous $3.50 Miche­lin star chick­en rice is avail­able in Singapore’s Chi­na­town at the Liao Fan Hawk­er Chan.

More Infor­ma­tion: For more infor­ma­tion about the fes­ti­val and for tips on vis­it­ing Sen­tosa and Sin­ga­pore vis­it the offi­cial site of the fes­ti­val at [www.tgff.com.sg] – or check out our guide to Sin­ga­pore here.