The 2016 Good Food Festival ended tonight in spectacular fashion with a gala evening at the Hotel Rixos Libertas. An evening of colour, dance and glamour was a fitting end to this year’s festival. Guests to the evening, Gala Dinner of the Land of Legends Theme Park, were treated to a five course meal which included a fusion of the best of Turkish cuisine and Mediterranean specialities.

In a menu dominated with fish and seafood delights, including marinated fillet of sea bream served with chili and garlic and warm cabbage sarma with taggiasca olives, and finished off with a baklava with pistachio, all prepared by the executive chef of the Rixos Libertas Ozgur Donertas.

And most importantly the evening had a humanitarian character as a prize draw was organized, with three and five-day breaks at the newly opened Land of Legends theme park in Antalya, from which all the funds were donated to the Dubrovnik General Hospital. In total 62,150 Kuna was collected, 13,200 from the evening’s lottery, from the Good Food Festival events and the money will go towards purchasing a FibroScan for the Dubrovnik hospital.

The director of the Dubrovnik Tourist Board, Romana Vlasic, took the opportunity to thank all the organizations involved in this year’s festival, a festival that will be remembered for its rich and varied program.