Once Upon a Kitchen – World’s Best Chefs

NEW YORK – On the evening of Wednesday, 5 December 2018, the world’s leading experience agency, GR8 (http://www.thegr8experience.com), will bring together four of the world’s legendary Master Chefs for a once-in-a-lifetime culinary experience, one that lover’s of food and culture could only dream about.

Once Upon A Kitchen is a remarkable culinary event that invites guests to experience four of the world’s most renowned chefs currently residing at the crown of their industry: Massimo Bottura, Joan Roca, Mauro Colagreco, and Christina Tosi. Chef’s Bottura, Roca, and Colagreco are currently rated No. 1, 2, & 3 in the world rankings which took place at the Oscar’s of Gastronomy, The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2018. Chef Tosi is an internationally recognized pastry chef and two-time James Beard award winner who was recently featured in the hit Netflix series, Chef’s Table: Pastry.

This extraordinary once-in-a-lifetime culinary event will take place on Wednesday, 5 December 2018 at historic Gotham Hall located at 1356 Broadway in New York City. To book your seat or table at this incredible culinary experience visit the ticket window here

GR8 presents a first-ever collaboration amongst four of the top chefs of our time through a fine dining sensory experience sure to excite, intrigue and delight. To taste any of these iconic chefs’ dishes would normally require a trip to Italy, France or Spain and one could not enjoy the privilege of tasting all of these magnificent creatives under one roof. That is — until now.These culinary masters will create an exceptional, multi-course gastronomic dinner featuring  signature dishes from their respective restaurants: Osteria Francescana, El Celler de Can Roca, Mirazur and Milk Bar, culminating with one interpretive surprise dish. To top it off, Chef Tosi, Founder & CEO of Milk Bar, will create a whimsically imaginative dessert specifically crafted for the event. The evening will be presided over by renowned winemaker, Robert Cipresso, as well as epicurean insiders, for an absoulutely unforgettable evening.

Interested media who wish to attend the dinner please send coverage requests to WORKHOUSE, CEO Adam Nelson via email nelson@workhousepr.com or telephone +1 212. 645.8006. Additional requests to interview the chefs, obtain press packets or images at the press conference on 4 December 2018 please contact info@workhousepr.com. All images are subject to copyright.

INFORMATION to learn more about Once Upon A Kitchen please visit the website

RESERVE to book this incredible culinary experience or plan your own dream of a lifetime with GR8, contact via email thegr8experience@gr8-group.com or by telephone +1 786. 837. 5430.

Massimo Bottura opened Osteria Francescana in Modena in 1995. An innovator and restaurateur for over twenty years, Bottura has consolidated his reputation as one of the world’s most creative culinary figures. His internationally renowned three Michelin star restaurant, Osteria Francescana, was named number 1 on The World’s 50 Best Restaurants list in 2016 and for the second time in 2018. Bottura’s dishes explore the deep roots of the Italian kitchen while making references to history, art and philosophy. From early on, the restaurant engaged in a profound exploration of territory and tradition, the expression of which can be found in the absolute concentration of flavours guided by Bottura’s definition: “Tradition seen from 10 kilometres away”. Today Osteria Francescana continues to redefine Italy’s rich gastronomic heritage, ingredients and culinary traditions with the benefit of critical distance, contemporary cooking techniques, and a constant desire to insure that the Italian kitchen evolves.

Joan Roca is the chef of the two times acclaimed Best Restaurant of the World by the The World’s 50 Best Restaurants list: El Celler de Can Roca (Girona, Spain). The restaurant also holds 3 Michelin Stars since 2009 and has been on the top positions of the international list for the past 11 years. The collective genius of Joan and his brothers, The Roca Brothers, is well documented. The holy trinity of head chef Joan’s thoughtful but original cooking, pastry chef Jordi’s imagination-defying desserts and sommelier Josep’s beautifully considered wine pairings already adds up to significantly more than the sum of its parts, before you add in a vibrant family dynamic and a deep sense of hospitality. His cuisine is conceptually inspired by traditional mediterranean cuisine and reinterpreted in a modern and creative style in total freedom. While there’s a main emphasis on the quality of the excellence of raw ingredients used, technical innovation and research also play a star role. Cutting edge techniques are applied in order to enhance a brilliant perform of its genuine flavours, to subtly play with the senses evoking memories and emotions in the guest experience. His creative process dialogues and engages both with science and peasants, technology and sensitivity, product and sensorial anthropology in a genuine balance that nourishes the creative game of Joan and his brothers. Josep the sommelier adds his liquid mastery of the universe of wine, and Jordi closes the triangle with his imaginative and surprising desserts.

Italo-Argentinian Mauro Colagreco is Chef Patron of restaurant Mirazur, located in Menton on the Cote D’Azur. Set in a landscape between the mountains and the sea, Mirazur is housed in an impressive, angular, 1950’s building and lies behind the old town of Menton, with views over the Mediterranean sea and the harbour of Garavan. Its south facing position provides the perfect environment for Colagreco to grow a vast vegetable garden, harvest his own avocados from a two hundred year old tree and pick the best and ripest fruit from the citrus orchard. Perhaps Colagreco’s most celebrated characteristic is his ability to seamlessly marry the land and sea. His menu draws comfortably from local seafood found in the Bay of Menton, delicacies from the region and produce from his own private gardens and orchards. Mauro Colagreco’s cuisine defies categorisation.  His dishes embrace the surroundings in a unique and all-encompassing way.  Mauro’s skill lies in his sensitive balance of taste and flavour, allowing each magnificent ingredient its place. With the Italian border just 30m from his front door, Colagreco has the pick of the markets on the Ligurian coast in Italy and the Côte d’Azur in France. In a quest to encourage diners to taste the raw purity of his dishes, Colagreco keeps things simple, expressing his skill through the marriage and combination of superb ingredients.

Christina Tosi is the two-time James Beard Award-winning chef and owner of Milk Bar, a dessert empire and lifestyle brand called “one of the most exciting bakeries in the country” by Bon Appetit Magazine. Known for baking outside of the lines and turning dessert on its head, with signature items including Cereal Milk Soft Serve, Crack Pie and naked layer cakes, Christina founded Milk Bar in 2008, with 14 locations now in New York City, Toronto, Washington DC, Las Vegas, with a Los Angeles location coming soon. Christina has been a judge on Fox’s MasterChef series, and was featured on the debut season of the hit Netflix docu-series, Chef’s Table: Pastry. She is also the author of two cookbooks, Momofuku Milk Bar (2011) and Milk Bar Life (2015), and has a third cookbook, Milk Bar: All About Cake coming out in October 2018.

God’s Love We Deliver is Once Upon a Kitchen’s Charity Partner and will be the beneficiary of the evenings proceeds. Known as the leading donor of nutritious and individualized meals for those who are too ill to shop and cook for themselves. God’s Love We Deliver creates and provides over 7,000 meals each weekday, delivering to those who suffer from life-altering illnesses across all five New York City boroughs, Westchester and Nassau Counties, and Hudson County, New Jersey. All of God’s Love services are provided free of charge to their clients, their children and to senior caregivers of senior clients, without regard of income. The charity has never maintained a waiting list. To learn more, visit God’s Love We Deliver