LAHORE: Lahore’s biggest food festival Coke Food Fest opened on Friday at Royal Palm Golf & Country Club where attendees witnessed chefs working their magic through cooking demonstrations and enjoyed live music featuring performances by Quadrum, Sonu Dangerous, Arsalan Hassan, SYMT and Amanat Ali along with various other fun-filled activities for the entire family. During the day, a diverse line-up of culinary talents i.e. local chefs also offered special festival menus, discounts, and great meal deals. Families enjoyed and explored over 70 leading and burgeoning traditional/contemporary restaurants and 30 caterers, home chefs et al food stalls at this nonstop ‘Party in the Park’. Coke Food Fest promises to offer all of the season’s freshest flavours ranging from a diversity of traditional desi to Continental, Asian, Turkish/Lebanese and Italian. The selection of cuisines for Coke Food Fest has been done based on the reviews and feedback of the highly active members of the food portal “Foodies ‘R Us”, hence confirming that the selection is based on popular choice and opinions of Lahore’s most passionate foodies. The deliciously anticipated weekend won’t stop there as visitors will be able to taste the many culinary delights on offer cooked and supplied by local restaurateurs and chefs from all corners of Lahore. The Coke Food Fest also acknowledges that there is nothing quite like a home cooked meal; for which reason the festival celebrates home based chefs who make up a significant part of the Coke Food Fest, bringing a range of their multi-generational secret family recipes, soul food and unique flavours to all of Lahore. The three-day festival is expected to attract a crowd of more than 50,000 food enthusiasts from Lahore and its surrounding cities. Adding to the rich culinary diversity, Day 2 of Coke Food Fest will have performances from Quadrum, Arsalan Hassan, The Basement and Asim Azhar. Coke Food Fest is hosted by Coca-Cola Pakistan and powered by Kashmir cooking oil and Banaspati. Foodies ‘R Us, Activemedia, and One Platter are the organising partners. The festival is also supported by Bank Alfalah as the exclusive Banking Partner and Lifebuoy as hygiene partner along with participating sponsor: McDonald’s. Official media partners for the festival are Radio1FM91, URDU1 and Kinetic with Lotus PR as the official public relations partners. Tickets for the event are priced at only Rs 300 and can be purchased from www.bookme.pk and will also be available at the venue.