Slow Food Calgary Greets Spring with Annual Roots & Shoots Dinner
Slow Food Calgary announces a celebration of spring on the prairie with its annual “Roots & Shoots” dinner at River Café. Host executive chef Scott Pohorelic and chef Andy Bujak are joined by four other chefs from Calgary restaurants as they present a menu of locally sourced seasonal ingredients. This annual event is in its ninth year, and features Canadian wines paired by River Café’s co-sommelier and owner, Sal Howell.
The meal, one of Calgary’s best bargains in multi-course dining, serves courses created by Pohorelic, Bujak and a roster of award-winning guest chefs: Hayato Okamitsu (executive chef of Catch Restaurant); Geoff Rogers (executive chef of Red Door Bistro); Jonathan Canning (executive chef of Olives Restaurant); Justin Labossiere (executive chef of the Concorde Group); Rebekah Pearse (chef/owner of Nectar Desserts).
When: Monday April 6th, 2009
Where: River Café, on Prince’s Island Park
Time: Cocktails @ 6:00 pm, Dinner @ 6:30 pm
Tickets: $115 for Slow Food Calgary members$140 for not-yet-members
Tickets may be purchased at The Cookbook Co. Cooks, 722-11 Ave. SW or by phone @ 403-265-6066.
Okimatsu is the reigning national 2009 Gold Medal Plates winner and Labossiere was a finalist in the 2006 Knorr/CCFCC Junior Culinary Challenge and a two-time Champion at the International PEI Shellfish Chef’s Challenge.
Howell says, “A kitchen full of visiting talented chefs raises the bar for Scott and his team. Each year at Roots & Shoots, the ingenuity of the chefs in creating a vestige of prairie spring — when in some years the snow is barely gone and nothing is yet sprouting — is truly inspiring. This event is a joyous reinforcement of River Café’s mandate of local sustainably produced cuisine.”
Slow Food is an international organization that is committed to supporting good, clean and fair local food.
