Monday, October 9, 2017

Buy Tickets Now for Chefs Cook for Hunger Benefitting Atlanta Community Food Bank Oct. 12


Atlanta chefs are coming together at Davio’s Atlanta to do what they do best (cook) to raise funds for the Atlanta Community Food Bank (ACFB). Join Davio’s Atlanta, Flavors magazine, Christine Pullara of NBC’s “Atlanta & Company” and some of Atlanta’s most prestigious chefs for Chefs Cook for Hunger, a multi-course dinner with wine pairings at 6 p.m. on Oct. 12. Aria chef/owner Gerry Klaskala, Rathbun’s Restaurants chef Kevin Rathbun, The Cook’s Warehouse chef Mary Moore and Davio’s executive chef Matthew Rosekrans and VP/culinary director Rodney Murillo are teaming up to create the evening’s menu. Guests arrive to a “Benvenuto” of smoked trout mousse flatbread, spicy salmon tartare, Springer Mountain chicken liver crostini, pan-seared lump crabcakes and Philly cheesesteak spring rolls accompanied by NV Col de Salici brut blanc and 2015 brut rosé DOCG Valdobbiadene prosecco. Klaskala prepares an antipasto of chilled Springer Mountain chicken with roasted red peppers, French beans, limestone lettuce and lemon-basil vinaigrette served with 2016 Calafuria rosé, Salento. Other courses include hand-rolled potato gnocchi with organic mushrooms, basil, white truffle oil and shaved black truffles paired with 2015 Erath Resplendent pinot noir, Oregon; and chargrilled rib-eye cap, butternut squash-chevre purée and preserved lemon Brussels sprouts paired with 2015 Chateau Ste. Michelle “Indian Wells” cabernet sauvignon, Columbia Valley. Dinner ends with dolce of peach upside-down cake, caramel, toasted almond ice cream and 2015 Eroica riesling, Columbia Valley. Buy tickets online, $150 per person (plus tax and gratuity); advance purchase only. All ticket sales will be donated to the ACFB. Call 404-844-4810 for more information.

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