Epicurean Escape
This event is held annually at the Grand Lido Negril in Jamaica. Our executive team provide celebrity chefs, master sommeliers, and programming for this sold out event featuring cooking classes, culinary arts, wine tastings and nightly gala dinners and entertainment.  

Let us provide the celebrity staff and programming for your next food and wine event.

Master sommeliers present wine and champagne tastings and food and wine pairings.  Also, history lessons on the region, terrain and climate creating the particular flavors of the wine experience.

The event was lasst held June 24-28, 2009.  Guests left with lasting memories, satiated appetites and a host of recipes and secrets to re-create in their own kitchens.

Our line-up of guest presenters tantalized mouths and appetites all week.  The very special line-up for the 2009 included:

Darren McGrady, The Royal Chef

Jean Francois Bonnet, Tumbador Chocolate, New York

Gary Robertson, Executive Chef, Grand Lido Negril

Marie-Chantal LePage, Le Château Bonne Entente, Qùebec

Nikki Cascone, Chef and Co-owner, 24 Prince, New York

Mario Machado, Executive Chef, Mac’s Chop House, Kingston, Jamaica

Michael Jordan, Executive Chef and Co-owner, Rosemary’s Restaurant, Las Vegas

Kerry Simon, Chef and Owner, Simon Kitchen, Las Vegas; SIMON LA, Los Angeles; Impala, San Francisco

Bertrand Chemel, Executive Chef, 2941, Falls Church, Virginia

Michael A. Jordan, Certified Wine Educator, Napa Rose, Grand Californian Hotel at Disneyland, Anaheim, California

Robert Bigelow, Director of Wine, Wirtz Beverage Nevada

Jason Quinn, Advanced Sommelier, Prime, the Bellagio, Las Vegas

Anthony Giglio, Wine Sommelier and Journalist

Christopher Reckord, Sommelier

Mary Clarke, Chef Instructor, Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts, Las Vegas

Wendy Jordan, Chef Instructor and Co-owner, Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts, Las Vegas
Rosemary’s Restaurant, Las Vegas