The next Met Gala is going to be a celebrity-filled event where stars will be flaunting their lavish attire, all centered around the theme of the event. The theme of the Met Gala isn’t limited to the dresses; it’s further extended to the dining experience, where delicacies are carefully prepared for the guests. While preparations for the next installment are underway, let’s look back at some of the most memorable menus of years gone by.
2024: A Fairytale Feast
In 2024, the dinner menu, echoing the theme of Sleeping Beauty’s awakening, opened with a spring vegetable salad including elderflower foam, raspberry vinaigrette, olive crumble, and butterfly-shaped croutons. The ethereal, fairy tale-inspired ambiance was completed with more than 270 nature-inspired centerpieces.
2023: A Tribute to Lagerfeld
The 2023 Met Gala menu, designed by Caterer Oliver Cheng, was inspired by Karl Lagerfeld’s passion for dinner parties. Guests started with a chilled spring pea soup garnished with baby vegetables, truffle snow, and lemon crème fraîche.The entrée included Ora King salmon, paired with vegetable nage, asparagus, radish, and pickled strawberries, to pay homage to Lagerfeld’s penchant for cuisine and his chic nature.
2022: Enchanted, Nature-Inspired Banquet
In 2022, the menu featured an air of fairy tales and nature, driven by the story of Sleeping Beauty emerging from a sleep. Patrons enjoyed a spring vegetable salad with a new flavor, topped with elderflower foam, raspberry vinaigrette, olive crumble, and butterfly croutons.The dinner was quintessential to the magical, dreamy setting of a children’s book, paired with 270 centerpieces that were nature-inspired.
2021: A Bold Culinary Experience
The menu for the 2021 Met Gala, according to Hello Magazine, was colorful and innovative. Appetizers included black rice porcini arancini, watermelon tart with smoked yuzu soy, and collard greens with coconut buttermilk cornbread. For the main course, creamy barley with corn, pickled turnips, and roasted maitake mushrooms, and apple mousse and confit made up the dessert.
2019: An Elegant Classic
The 2019 Met Gala menu, as written about by Refinery 29, was a treat of a mix of appetizers such as baby shrimp toast, asparagus tart with celery leaf pesto, and green goddess panna cotta over tomatoes. The entrée included filet of beef, beet horseradish crema, haricots verts in citrus balsamic, and thyme-infused braised rainbow carrots. For dessert, the standouts were gianduja (chocolate hazelnut) cake, flamingo cookies, and espresso.
Annually, the Met Gala menu supports the theme in imaginative ways, providing an unforgettable gastronomic experience to match the once-in-a-lifetime fashion moments.
