InterContinental Danang Sun Peninsula Resort hosts its inaugural gastronomy festival this June, pairing the cuisine of three-Michelin-starred Chef Christian Le Squer with the art of designer Bill Bensley.

InterContinental Danang Sun Peninsula Resort will host Artisan Stories, an inaugural six-day gastronomy festival, from 6 to 11 June 2026. Built around the theme of “art meets gastronomy”, the festival brings together acclaimed chefs, guest mixologists and live entertainment across the resort’s restaurants and public spaces — drawing fresh attention to Danang’s standing as one of Southeast Asia’s most compelling culinary destinations. For travellers considering Vietnam’s central coast, the timing offers a compelling reason to book.

The centrepiece is Bensley + Le Squer: The Art of Joie de Vivre, a two-night dining experience at La Maison 1888 on 10 and 11 June. The collaboration pairs the cuisine of three-Michelin-starred Chef Christian Le Squer with the paintings of Bill Bensley—the architect and designer behind the resort’s visual identity—who will present and interpret his works alongside each course. Bensley is also the creative mind behind the resort’s award-winning design.

For Le Squer, the connection between art and cooking is central to how he works. “My approach to creating a dish is very similar to that of artistic disciplines such as architecture or painting,” he has said. “I would like guests to take away a sense of the connection between two men, two cultures and a union between two artists.”

Preceding the residency, In Residence: Chef Christian Le Squer on 8 and 9 June centres on the chef’s own culinary vision, with Le Squer presenting the menu and the thinking behind each dish. La Maison 1888, set in a French Indochine-style mansion overlooking the Son Tra Peninsula’s forest and sea, holds Central Vietnam’s only Michelin star. The festival marks one of the restaurant’s most ambitious programming moments to date.

The wider programme spans the resort’s other venues. The festival opens on 6 June with a beachfront celebration and closes on 11 June with an intimate evening at Tingara led by Chef Junichi Yoshida.

At Tingara, the Culinary Constellations: Six Hands Dinner series runs across four evenings, each night pairing the resort’s culinary team with a different regional guest—Loïc Portalier from Louise, Hong Kong’s Michelin-starred French dining room; Cuong Nguyen from An’s Saigon, a progressive Vietnamese address set in a 20th-century villa; and Hoang Tung from T.U.N.G Dining, one of Vietnam’s most acclaimed fine dining names.

At L_o_n_g Bar, guest mixologist Ohm Supapat from F*nkytown, Bangkok’s award-listed cocktail bar known for its seasonally driven, locality-rooted serves, leads a two-night showcase spotlighting Vietnamese herbs and botanicals.

The festival also follows a significant appointment at La Maison 1888. In March, Jean-Louis Angulo was named Chef de Cuisine—promoted from Sous Chef by Le Squer himself, under whom Angulo previously trained at Le Cinq at Four Seasons George V in Paris. Born in France to Peruvian parents, Angulo brings a broad culinary background to the role, having worked across Michelin one, two and three-star kitchens in France before joining the resort. His promotion ensures continuity at the restaurant as it enters one of its most high-profile programming periods.

Artisan Stories runs 6 to 11 June. For those planning a trip to central Vietnam, the programme makes a strong case for timing it around the table. For reservations and programme details, contact dining.icdanang@ihg.com or +84 236 393 8888.

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