Celebrate this year’s Luminato festival by eating $5 snacks on a giant cardboard beach
Celebrate this year’s Luminato festival by eating $5 snacks on a giant cardboard beach
Next weekend marks the start of Luminato, the summertime festival of music, dance, film, food and other random creative expression. This year’s Festival Hub, an interactive installation called Cardboard Beach, will be exactly what it sounds like: an idyllic beach scene made entirely out of cardboard, complete with umbrellas, deck chairs, cabanas and—essential to any beach experience—lots of stuff to eat and drink. On Saturday, June 7, 10 Toronto chefs (including Carmen’s Luiz Valenzuela, Mad Mexican’s José Hadad and the chefs behind soon-to-open South American eatery Mata) will be pairing up with festival artists to serve a beach-inspired feast of sliders, grilled seafood, arepas and other Pan-American snacks—each selling for $5 flat. Flip through the slideshow below for a mouth-watering preview.
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June 7, 12-5. Free. David Pecaut Square, 215 King St. W., luminatofestival.com
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- <strong>Tom Filippou,</strong> the executive chef for <strong>President’s Choice Cooking Schools,</strong> was paired with <strong>Kid Koala.</strong> They’ll be cooking up lamb burgers on naan
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- Filippou and Kid Koala’s garlic-infused lamb burger with feta and eggplant on naan bread
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- Chef <strong>Luis Valenzuela</strong> of Queen West restaurant <strong>Carmen</strong> was paired with songstress <strong>Alejandra Ribera.</strong> Their collaborative dish will be a traditional seafood paella
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- Valenzuela’s version of Valencian paella with baby clams, mussels, calamari, shrimp, chicken and grilled chorizo
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- <strong>Patrick Fraser</strong> is one of the chefs from <strong>Mata,</strong> a new South American restaurant that’s opening soon in the old <strong>Keriwa</strong> space on Queen West. He and fellow chefs <strong>Felipe Faccioli</strong> and <strong>Tulio Lessa</strong> paired up with Brazilian-born singer <strong>Aline Morales,</strong> who loves fresh fruit and coconut
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- Faccioli, Fraser and Lessa will be serving a cinnamon-sugar grilled pineapple slice topped with house-made coconut gelato and pink pepper sauce
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- A mock-up of two-man Cuban collective <strong>Los Carpinteros' <em>Cardboard Beach</em> installation, coming to David Pecaut Square </strong>
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 will be pairing up with festival artists to serve a beach-inspired feast of sliders, grilled seafood, arepas and other Pan-American snacks—each selling for $5 flat. Flip through the slideshow below for a mouth-watering preview.
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June 7, 12-5. Free. David Pecaut Square, 215 King St. W., luminatofestival.com
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