After the Oscars, celebrities attend the elaborate Governors Ball, where chef Wolfgang Puck dazzles their palates with delicacies like black truffles, edible gold, and caviar. This year marks his 20th year as the chef of the event, and he has outdone himself! Take a look at all the close-up images of the food and drinks that will be served.
A few hors d'oeuvres include vegan taro root and avocado tacos, Oscar-shaped salmon with caviar, and white bean quinoa cakes with roasted pepper.
Guests will have plenty of sushi, oysters, shrimp, and stone crab claws to choose from at the sushi and seafood station.
Many dishes receive a generous shaving of black truffles like the pasta with roasted chestnuts, the macaroni and cheese, and the chicken pot pie.
Wolfgang Puck stir-fried a seafood curry to be served with white rice. He is famous for his Asian-Californian cuisine.
The dessert spread includes it all: truffles, cupcakes, panna cotta, parfait, and cake.
Wolfgang spares no expense. Many of the desserts will be coated in 24k gold dust.
The "caramel garden" features coffee "soil," a malted chocolate tree, and fleur de sel.
Rather than cake pops, Wolfgang and his team created these chocolate-dipped strawberry cheesecake pops.
The big dessert attraction is the Hollywood Marjolaine cake, a French layered cake with hazelnut sponge cake, coffee cream, and chocolate ganache.
Even vegans will be able to enjoy dessert. Wolfgang has prepared vegan chocolate and carrot cupcakes, plus a gluten-free almond cream cupcake.