B2B: A Franco-Canto Culinary Affair
Central's Benny Lam is teaming up with Brisbane-born chef Brendan Fong on a multi-course feast for one day only.
Overview
A few years back at Southside in South Brisbane, diners were treated to a dream collaboration: chefs Benny Lam and Brendan Fong joining forces. On Sunday, April 27, 2025 over at Central in the Brisbane CBD, the pair — the former being the underground eatery's Executive Chef, the latter a Brisbane-born kitchen talent — are teaming up again.
Here's how to close out your long weekend: with a two-hour lunch sitting feasting on dishes whipped up by these two friends. Lam and Fong have a particular focus at event that's been dubbed B2B: A Franco-Canto Culinary Affair, drawing upon their backgrounds training in classical French dishes and Cantonese cuisine.
For $144 per person, you'll tuck into four courses plus dessert. For an extra $88 each, you'll get wines to match as well.
On the menu: rock oysters, raw scallops, razor clams, and smoked foie gras with salted duck eggs among the starters; pork and pistachio siu mai, lobster and prawn har gow with caviar, and prawn toast as dim sum picks; Moreton Bay bug thermidor with house XO sauce for a small bite; and smoked duck à l'orange, stir-fried red emperor fillet and chicken fat rice pilaf as larger dishes. And for dessert? Jasmine tea crème brûlée.
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