Food Bowl Set for May in Los Angeles
Food Bowl, set to be an annual month-long festival celebrating L.A.’s dynamic and influential food scene, takes place for the first time throughout May.
Centered in Los Angeles, California, the festival will bring together the best in local dining experiences while promoting social awareness about food waste and hunger. L.A.’s largest culinary event to date, Food Bowl will include special programs with international chefs, including Massimo Bottura, chef-owner of Osteria Francescana in Modena, Italy, and founder of Food for Soul; Fergus Henderson, chef and founder of St. John in London; Rosio Sánchez, chef-owner of Hija de Sánchez in Copenhagen; and Magnus Nilsson, chef at Fäviken in Sweden, with more to be announced later by the sponsor, The Los Angeles Times.
The Times Food staff – Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Jonathan Gold, editor Amy Scattergood, deputy editor Jenn Harris and Test Kitchen director Noelle Carter – will curate and host signature events during the festival. Building on the success of The Taste and its many food and beverage events during the year, this time the focus will be inventive kitchens, dining rooms and pop-up eateries that bring people together over good conversations and great meals.
The centerpiece of Food Bowl will be Night Market, an outdoor dining experience at Grand Park. Inspired by the global street food scene, Night Market will include 50 restaurants and food trucks, drinks and live entertainment each evening from May 10 through 14, 2017.
With individual programs by restaurants, chefs, bars, coffee shops, food trucks, hotels and markets, the Food Bowl schedule will include hundreds of events the entire month of May, including over Memorial Day weekend. The schedule of events and charity partners will be announced April 1, 2017.
(Photo courtesy of Food Bowl)
