Culinary Globe Trotting at Le Soleil

  Le Soleil has started up a novel gastronomic event for Lusaka residents;

 ‘The Le Soleil
International Food Festival’.

  • Greece (Jan 07

  • South Africa (Feb 07)

  • Ireland (March 07)

  • France (April 07)

On the last Saturday every month one of many international communities in Lusaka will showcase their  own particular traditional cuisine prepared by members of their community. Each community also has the space to enlarge upon this theme to include traditional music, dance, fashion and art as Le Soleil boasts of extensive indoor and outdoor facilities.

Each month Le Soleil will extensively advertise the particular community that will be hosting that month’s food festival.

The whole event kicked off in January with the Greek community , South Africa, Ireland and France to follow (check the website for dates) …some African communities have expressed interest as well and it looks like we can all look forward to a veritable cornucopia of international cuisine throughout the coming year.

It is also anticipated that each festival is also a fund raising initiative for a project chosen by each participating community. These fund raising options could range from a percentage of ticket sales to raffles and auctions.

The Le Soleil management is acutely aware of the torrid state of the last kilometer of road before the Le Soleil entrance and plans are afoot to have this section of road graded before the first festival.

If any community is interested in participating then the programme is as follows;
Le Soleil offers its extensive kitchen, crockery and cutlery, restaurant and kitchen staff, cash bar, the restaurant itself, the conference facility…pretty much the entire complex…all for a percentage of each ticket sale. Each community determines the price of tickets as that would be relative to the costs of preparing the food. Le Soleil also undertakes to handle all advertising and promotional costs.

For those who are interested the person to speak to is John Sweatman
who can be contacted on 097 781 222 or 097/095 802 533 or 01 291801.