Brisbane is going to a major gambling hotspot, and casino operators are fighting it out to secure a license in the city. As the competition heats up, Echo Entertainment and Crown Resorts are working hard to show local gaming regulators that their respective projects deserve to be licensed. Now, both companies are getting their celebrity chefs involved.

Currently, Crown Melbourne is working with celebrity Chef Heston Blumenthal to open at Fat Duck restaurant at the casino in February 2014. The original Fat Duck restaurant was opened in Berkshire, United Kingdom. In 1999, the casino earned its first Michelin Star, and its second and third in 2002 and 2004 respectively. It is one of the fastest restaurants to earn three Michelin stars, and has become an internationally-renowned venue.

Now, Blumenthal is bringing the legendary restaurant to Melbourne, and Crown wants to get the chef on board with its proposed new casino resort in Brisbane. Similarly, Echo Entertainment is working to entice its own celebrity chef team to work on its new Brisbane Casino project. Famous chefs Chase Kojima, Luke Nguyen and Adriano Zumbo are all rumoured to be working on Echo Entertainment’s new casino resort in Brisbane.

“I am very excited to have now opened Kiyomi on the Gold Coast and getting to know some of the local Queensland produce,” Kojima in an interview with the Courier Mail. “I have a couple of exciting new concepts I would love to bring to Brisbane.” The addition of celebrity chefs to the battle over Brisbane will certainly stir the pot and heat things up.

We are excited to see whether or not these new arrangements will have any bearing on which casino operator is chosen to open a new casino in Brisbane.

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