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Inside the Gulfshore's Dining Scene
February 2009
02/25/09Hot Dish: Feb. 25, 2009Inside the Gulfshore’s Dining Scene The Gulfshore’s Other Wine Festival Missed the Naples Winter Wine Festival? Come sample great food and fine wines at the Southwest Florida Wine & Food Fest this Friday and Saturday. Top chefs will join 16 wineries at chef vintner dinners at select homes on Friday. Seats are still available, ticket prices vary and the quality is tops. For the public, do not miss Saturday’s Grand Tasting and Auction, starting at 12:30 p.m. at Miromar Lakes Beach & Golf Club in south Lee County. This is a rare opportunity for you to talk, face-to-face with two dozen chefs, and try their savory creations. You don’t often get that experience while dining in one chef’s restaurant! Have auction fever? Rare Robert Rauschenberg prints, exquisite... Posted at 04:09 PM | Permalink |
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02/11/09Hot Dish: Feb. 11 2009Inside the Gulfshore’s Dining scene. Local Chefs Shine for Naples Winter Wine Festival Event For a glorious week, Naples was the epicenter of the food and wine world, as the 2009 Naples Winter Wine Festival raised more than $5 million to benefit the Naples Children & Education Foundation. Seventeen of the nation’s top chefs gathered for a reception last Thursday at the Inn on Fifth, where local chefs from Fifth Avenue South served a wonderful tasting of their locally renowned dishes. From left: Chefs Jonathan Benno of Per Se, New York; Mary Ann Esposito of PBS's Ciao Italia; John Tesar, formerly of The Mansion, Dallas; Eric DeLano of Trilogy, Naples; Sean Brock of McCrady's,Charleston, S.C.; Sandro Durante of Vergina, Naples. The local chefs included Eric... Posted at 06:25 PM | Permalink |
