Chefs and the City

Vital Bridges’ Chefs and the City, Chicago’s finest tasting, fashion and design show, features thirty-plus chefs and wine and spirits purveyors at the stylish Peninsula Chicago. The event’s high-end auction and signature raffle provide guests with additional opportunities to support our worthy cause. The After-party, hosted by RL Restaurant, is a wonderful complement to the tasting rounding out a perfect evening with more food and drinks The Terrace Cocktail Hour and Silent Auction opens the event at the Peninsula Chicago and provides guests with the opportunity to bid on the upscale silent auction (15 – 20 items) while they enjoy passed appetizers and specialty cocktails or sample the wine offerings The Premier Tasting and Fashion Show, staged in the Main Ballroom where 400 paid guests can sample the tastings of more than thirty chefs and take in the fashion show produced by CS Magazine’s Style Editor, Graham Kostic The exclusive After Party, once again hosted by RL Restaurant, features passed hors d’oeuvres and traditional cocktails and wine for 150 paid guests. Each guest receives a premium gift bag Chefs from the following resturants will join us this year: 33 Club, Aldino's, Arun's Thai Restaurant, avec, Avenues, Belly Shack and Urban Belly, Blackbird, Café Spiaggia, Charlie Trotter's, David Burke's Primehouse, English, Fulton's on the River, Graham Elliott, Japonais, Kendall College, Lockwood Restaurant, MK The Restaurant, NAHA, Perennial, Province, Ria, RL Restaurant, Sepia, Spring, Sprout, Swirlz Cupcakes, The Bristol, Union League Club of Chicago, and Vie Our 2010 Chefs and the City Sponsors: RL Restaurant • CS Magazine • Gibsons Restaurant Group • 33 CLUB • XA, The Experiential Agency • The Peninsula Hotel • FIJI • Effen • Makers Mark • Allen Brothers • Fortune Fish Honorary Chairs: Lee Blackwell Bauer, Candace Jordan, D. Graham Kostic, and Amanda Puck Co-chairs: Joyce Dawson, Bill Lasche, Ryan Ruskin, Rich Varnes Chef Chair: Ryan Pitts, RL Restaurant Committee Members: Scott McClellan, Greg Hyder, Maggie Murzanski, Anthony Vayos Vital Bridges uses the net proceeds of the event to help people living in poverty with HIV and AIDS build healthier lives with nutritious food.

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