Michelin-starred chefs to join forces and cook springtime dinner in NYC

ETX Daily Up
After hosting a grand dinner at the Chateau de Versailles last year, luxury hotel and restaurant group Relais & Chateaux is bringing 45 international chefs to New York to cook another feast for 450 guests.

After hosting a legendary dinner at the Chateau de Versailles last year to celebrate the inauguration of French gastronomy into UNESCO's World Heritage List, master chefs from around the world have been recruited to continue the tradition, this time in New York City.

What was supposed to be a one-off event last year has birthed what's being called a World Culinary Tour, a collaborative meal between top chefs who will work together to produce a charitable dinner on gold-gilded plates for hundreds of deep-pocketed guests: tickets cost $1,500 a person.

For their second Dîner des Grands Chefs, luxury hotel and restaurant association Relais & Châteaux will gather more than 45 chefs from countries like the US, France, Italy, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore to Gotham Hall next month, where they will prepare a meal themed around the finest springtime produce in the US, a dinner dubbed Art de Vivre.

Some of the star-powered celebrity chef names include Jean-Georges Vongerichten, Daniel Boulud, Gary Danko, and recently crowned three Michelin-starred French chef Emmanuel Renaut, of Flocons de Sel in France.

A portion of the proceeds from the evening will be donated to Citymeals-on-Wheels.

Meanwhile, earlier this month 20 chefs from London's top restaurants including Dinner by Heston Blumenthal, Restaurant Gordon Ramsay, Pollen Street Social and Aikens also lent their time to an annual charitable dinner "Who's Cooking Dinner?" which supports leukemia research.

For more info on the Dîner des Grands Chefs which takes place April 16, visit http://www.relaischateaux.com/RelaisChateaux/NewYork/.