Tickets are selling fast to the most glamorous and decadent event on the Crave Sydney International Food Festival calendar, the 10-course Middle Eastern Showcase Gala Dinner, hosted at the Ivy Room Sydney this Sunday 10 October 2010 from 7pm.

Top names in the world of Middle Eastern cuisine, including Melbourne stars Greg Malouf (MoMo) and Ismail Tosun (Gigi Baba) together with the fabulous Yotam Ottolenghi from London's Ottolenghi food stores; Musa Dagdeviren, who owns three celebrated restaurants in Istanbul; and Kamal Mouzawak, who founded the first farmers' market in Beirut - will each create a dish on the night.

The dinner will live up to its name and showcase the best of delicious and exotic Middle Eastern dishes during a sumptuous 10-course banquet paired with matching wines. The Ivy Room provides the perfect, opulent surrounds for the once in a lifetime occasion. So, grab your Middle Eastern cuisine loving husband, wife, friends or family and book your seat before you miss out. Sydney may never see a night like this again.