Check out top Valley Chefs AND support the arts
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts will present Dine Out with the Chefs: A Celebration of the Culinary Arts on October 5, 2008, from 4 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Created by author Pamela Swartz, the mouth-watering event celebrates the Valley’s exciting dining scene and is a must for anyone who loves food. Now in its third year, it has become one of the most prestigious epicurean events in Arizona, attracting the top chefs in the Valley.
Dine Out guests will have the opportunity to meet the chefs from 19 of the Valley’s finest restaurants and to sample their culinary creations, from delicious soups, salads and appetizers to some of their signature dishes and most decadent desserts
Dine Out with the Chefs will feature author Pamela Swartz signing her brand new edition of Dine Out Phoenix: Where to Eat from Chic to Unique as well as a wine tasting, premium vodka and tequila tasting, premium beer tasting courtesy of Hensley, live music by Rakata and a cash bar.
The participating chefs and restaurants include:
- Executive Chef Jon-Paul Hutchins, L’Academie and L’Ecole (at Scottsdale Culinary Institute)
- Executive Chef Eric Howson & Chef Salvador Prado, Alto ristorante e bar (at Hyatt Regency Scottsdale Resort and Spa at Gainey Ranch)
- Chef/Owner Carolyn Ellis, Arcadia Farms
- Executive Chef Justin Beckett, Canal
- Pastry Chef Tracy Dempsey, Confection
- Chef Payton Curry, Digestif
- Executive Chef Gio Osso, Estate House
- Executive Chef Matt Taylor, Foodbar
- Executive Chef Michael Rusconi, Lon’s (at the Hermosa Inn)
- Executive Chef Bernie Kantak, Mexican Standoff
- Chef/Owner Erasmo “Razz” Kamnitzer, Razz’s Restaurant
- Executive Chef Nobuo Fukuda, Shell Shock
- Head Baker Jeffrey Yankellow, Simply Bread
- Chef Juan Solorio, SWB, a southwest bistro (at Hyatt Regency Scottsdale Resort and Spa at Gainey Ranch)
- Executive Chef Lee Hillson, T. Cook’s (at the Royal Palms Resort & Spa)
- Executive Chef Mel Mecinas, Talavera (at the Four Seasons Resort Scottsdale at Troon North)
- Chef de Cuisine Robert Sanchez, Windows on the Green (at The Phoenician)
- Executive Chef Matt Carter, Zinc Bistro
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