Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Get Your Fill of Food, Fun and Five Bone Rack at Taste of Atlanta This Weekend!

Taste of Atlanta at Tech Square in Midtown is the place to be seen eating and drinking this Saturday and Sunday, October 23 and 24. With more than 70 restaurants participating, you're sure to leave satiated. Some of the highlights include the following Atlanta celebrity chef demos:

Woodfire Grill Executive Chef/Partner and "Top Chef" star Kevin Gillespie will be on the main cooking stage from 2:45 - 3:30 p.m. on Saturday.
• David DiCorpo of The Cook's Warehouse demonstrates his skills from 11:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. on Sunday
JCT. Kitchen & Bar Executive Chef Ford Fry moves in Sunday afternoon from 2:15 - 3 p.m. to prepare lobster Carolina Gold rice
Pacci Ristorante Chef Keira Moritz leads two cooking lessons on Sunday. At 1 p.m., she'll prepare lavender brown sugar-glazed braised pork belly on the Farm to Festival cooking stage. At 3:30 p.m. on the main stage, she'll be part of a Pink Power demo, showing off beef short rib with creamy polenta and auctioning off a few "pink" items to raise money for Susan G. Komen Foundation.

You won't want to miss Five Bone Rack, an all-chef band staring Ford Fry and Brian Horn of JCT. Kitchen & Bar, Gary Mennie of Woodruff Arts Center, Joe Truex of Watershed and Zeb Stevenson of Livingston, performing on Sunday from 3:45 - 4:15p.m.

Admission to Taste of Atlanta ($25 advance purchase, $35 at event) includes 15 taste tickets (attendees can buy more), and VIP Experience guests ($75) also have access to wine/beer/cocktail tasting tents, educational seminars and the Barcraft Competition. Click here for tickets!

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