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Top chefs from all over the country- James Beard Award winners, Mobil, AAA, and Zagat top honorees.  The guest chef and our team will design a five course menu paired with wine. The format for The Star Chefs series will be intimate- as they cook, the chefs will be in and out of the dining room to talk to guests about the meal.

This is an Opportunity you Don't want to Miss...

All dinners will begin at 6 pm
The cost is 100.00 per person, tax and gratuity not included



The 2010 Schedule

March 8th Celina Tio
The Philadelphia born and raised Tio is best known for her stint as the Executive Chef at The American Restaurant in Kansas City, Missouri. Chef Tio was named one of thirteen "Chefs to keep your eye on" by Esquire magazine.  She was named 2005 Chef of the Year by Chef magazine and was recently awarded the coveted 2007 Best Chef : Midwest by the James Beard Foundation.  She is currently working on opening Julian, a restaurant that will focus on casual American faire.

April 5th  Chef Evan Mallett & Michael Honig from Honig Vineyards
Michael has been a great friend of Gracie's for years.  His passion for wine and agriculture shine thru in everything he touches.  He is famously know as "the James Brown of the wine industry" and spends 75% of his time out in the world introducing people to Honig.  He is a leader in sustainable farming, director of the Wine Institute, and he sits on many boards of several organizations.  Thru his hard work and determination he and his team have created award winning wines that we cherish everyday.  Michael introduced us to Chef Evan Mallet a very good friend of his.  We are excited to have the duo with us.  Evan became the Chef owner of The Black Trumpet in 2007.  He entered the restaurant business in 1989.  In the nineties he followed his passion for writing and became a food critic, food writer and freelance writer for numerous Boston area magazines and journals.  Evan shares the same passion as Michael with sustainable farming and is a big supporter of Chef Collaborative as well as the RAFT grow out.

May 16th Chef Maria Helm Sinskey from Napa Valley
A celebrated chef, cookbook author and guest of many culinary TV shows.  Named one of the "Best New Chefs in America" by Food & Wine magazine, Maria is one of California's most reowned chefs.  Maria's mantra is "Eat seasonally, drink good wine and live a long and prosperous life."  Formerly the executive chef of Plumpjack Cafe in San Francisco, she now provides culinary direction and cooking classes at Robert Sinskey Vineyards.  "At Robert Sinskey Vineyards, we pursue the craft of growing and making wine the way we believe it was meant to be by following our own unique, some would say contrarian, approach."  Rob Sinskey believes that wine should not be a quick study, but rather, sneak up on you, seduce you, and evolve...