Sweet Street

Overview

Dessert gourmands, cancel your plans for next Wednesday night. The Shangri-La Hotel's executive pastry chef Anna Polyviou may have put on innovative and excessive dessert events in the past, but this latest offering is the literal icing on the cake.

Polyviou has teamed up with the Sydney chefs most adept with sweet-tooth-pleasing final courses to put on Sweet Street, the dessert festival you never knew you were missing. The bunch (which includes, naturally, the unconquerable Adriano Zumbo, and Min Chuan Chai of N2 Nitrogen Gelato) will transform the Grand Ballroom of the Shangri-La into the fanciest bake sale you've ever attended, putting all your high school efforts with cupcakes and coloured icing to shame.

Aside from sampling ten (ten! my stomach hurts already, but in a good way) of the crush-worthy team's creations, there'll be patissiers to meet, prizes to win and DJs to get down to. The hotel's Blu Bar bartenders will also be serving fizzy spider cocktails, which means this event is basically your ideal childhood birthday party, all grown up.