Expo 2020 Dubai’s F&B offerings: Presenting the world on a plate

Expo 2020 Dubai’s F&B offerings: Presenting the world on a plate

Can science fiction be served on a plate? UK-based Bompas & Parr, a multi-sensory food and drink specialist, certainly thinks so. It will debut its Future of Food: Epochal Banquet concept at Expo 2020 Dubai and you can expect the three-course menu to feature edible glow-in-the-dark creations and flavour-changing desserts in an immersive experience that blends the concepts of microbiology, hyper-intelligence, theatre and a side of culinary genius. “We worked with 102-year-old scientist James Lovelock who has predicted the future as the age of hyperintelligence. We used that to create a piece of dinner theatre where you step into a museum of food, set 300 years in the future, and eat your way through the future of food from now until Lovelock’s Novacene,” Sam Bompas, director of Bompas & Parr tells Lovelock’s Novacene era is one where AI-beings become the dominant race and will treat humans as their cherished pets. To bring the concepts of Novacene to the now and onto people’s plates, Bompas has adopted a multi-disciplinary approach. “We’ve worked with a motley crew of architects, designers, graphic designers, chefs, mixologists, videographers, theatre directors – all with the aim of gathering the future together and presenting it on your