Chicago restaurant Charlie Trotter’s closed in 2012, and the well-known chef-owner who contributed his title and appreciable skills to the institution handed away the next yr. After greater than a decade, Charlie Trotter’s son Dylan has reopened the restaurant at 816 West Armitage St. as a pop-up, internet hosting intimate tasting menus and particular occasions.
As a part of the brand new mannequin, Charlie Trotter’s has established a Visitor Chef Dinner Collection, and a few of Nashville’s most vaunted culinary expertise has been invited to indicate off their chops on the “Nashville within the North” dinner on Saturday, Feb 28. All 4 cooks have obtained Michelin recognition and symbolize a few of the finest Nashville has to supply.
Josh Habiger of Bastion really got here to Nashville from Chicago, the place he labored in a number of in style eating places and bars. After serving to begin up The Patterson Home, Habiger reinvented superb eating on the town with The Catbird Seat. He’ll be joined on the Chicago dinner by his fellow founding co-chef at Catbird, Erik Anderson. After a couple of years of melting our brains with creative dishes, Anderson moved to the Bay Space, the place he has led Michelin-starred kitchens at Coi and truss and at present operated Barndiva in Healdsburg.
Trevor Moran is one other star recipient for his work at Locust, and spent a couple of incredible years at The Catbird Seat as nicely. You by no means know what Moran will contribute to a menu, however you may wager that it is going to be artistic and scrumptious! (And there’ll most likely be razor clams concerned.) The fourth member of the Million Greenback Quartet shall be Sam Jett of Audrey. A longtime protégé of Sean Brock, Jett has a facility for fermentation and preservation that matches in completely along with his dedication to Appalachian delicacies.
Whereas I don’t anticipate too a lot of you to make the journey to Chicago for this dinner, I’ll level out that it’s at present simpler to get a reservation for the Visitor Chef Dinner than it’s to attain a seat at Bastion or Locust. Simply sayin’ …
Earlier than Chef Jett heads to the away sport in Chicago, he’ll be the host for a unique collaboration. On Tuesday, Feb. 10, Audrey is bringing the crew from the upcoming Tuscan steak home Bacco to their kitchen to supply a sneak peek of the 4 Seasons’ signature restaurant as a part of Dine Nashville: The Music Metropolis Manner.
The five-course family-style dinner will carry collectively parts of Appalachian cooking and Tuscan traditions in what ought to show to be an interesting expertise. 4 Seasons Lodge Nashville government chef Derek Simcik and Bacco chef Nicky Miscia will lead the Italian crew as they put together for 2 seatings at 5:30 and eight p.m.
The menu appears to be like actually impressed, beginning out with a wide range of sharable small bites for the desk, together with fermented and grilled salt risen bread with marinated white beans (Chef Samuel), bruschetta spuma di mortadella with mortadella mousse, sweet-and-sour cherry mostrada and pistachio (Chef Derek) and olive “ascolane,” a stuffed olive with meatball and gorgonzola (Chef Nicky).
A seafood salvo follows, that includes salmon crudo, grilled octopus and a potato pastry known as millefoglie. Three handmade pastas will showcase a few of the cooks’ favourite elements, starting from a beef and pork sugo to spicy Calabrian ’nduja and pumpkin.
The principle course will revolve round one in every of my favourite Tuscan dishes ever, Bistecca alla Fiorentina. Count on a large porterhouse steak paired with balsamic-braised pearl onions by Chef Derek, roasted henosis mushrooms with pickled garlic from Chef Sam and cannellini beans with stewed tomatoes and guanciale by Chef Nicky.
Tickets for the chef collaboration dinner can be found for $114 plus tax per individual and could be booked through Resy or by calling Audrey at 615-988-3263.
