Thursday night, Mark Addison and Assouline celebrated the launch of their latest collaboration, Cocktail Chameleon. Mark Addison is an award-winning designer and producer who used his talents to create twelve cocktails in twelve unique variations for 144 signature takes on the classics.
“It’s called entertaining for a reason; You get to have fun while you do it” -Mark Addison
This past weekend the second annual All-Star Chef Classic took place at LA Live. On Saturday, I had the pleasure of attending the Grill & Chill presented by DCS and Stella Artois. The event deck at LA Live was transformed into a food carnival. As you entered the event you were handed a ticket booklet. Each ticket within the booklet represented a chef and their dish. Throughout the venue there were cooking stations that corresponded to each ticket and whenever you were ready to have the next food experience you would tear the ticket, place it in the appropriate bucket, and receive a plate.
Last night, Thursday, January 7, W’s Editor-in-chief Stefano Tonchi, Editor-at-large Lynn Hirschberg, and André Balazs celebrated the “Best Performances” portfolio featured in the February issue and toasted the 73rd annual Golden Globes.
We Are Family Foundation (WAFF) is a non-profit organization that’s dedicated to the vision of a global family by creating and supporting programs that promote cultural diversity while nurturing the vision, talents, and ideas of young people who are positively changing the world. The organization founded by legendary songwriter and producer Nile Rodgers, hosted its annual Celebration Gala, honoring Caryl M. Stern, Bill McDermott and Chaka Khan.
Last night, at the glamorous Metropolitan Club, the stars of Finding Neverland and their celebrity supporters gathered to celebrate the show’s opening night. Leading lady Laura Michelle Kelly and her co-stars Matthew Morrison and Kelsey Grammer arrived straight from the theater and began toasting with glasses of Moet & Chandon Imperial. They were joined by friends including Helen Mirren, Daren Criss, Gloria Estefan, Bryan Cranston, Lara Spencer, Derrick Hough, and Bryan Batt. Harvey Weinstein, the show’s executive producer, held court in a private room as fellow show-biz A-listers stopped by to congratulate him.
Saturday night we spent a lovely evening at a pop-up supper club judging an epic battle between chefs. Okay maybe epic is a little dramatic but it was a great night nevertheless. The Good Human Project in collaboration with Dinner Lab created this unique dining experience, that introduces foodies to up and coming chefs while raising funds for a worthy cause. Dinner Lab is a by their own definition a social experiment, bringing food lovers together via pop-up eateries where they sample dishes from new chefs. The events hosted by Dinner Lab are usually on a need to know basis, which means if you are not a card-carrying member of the club, you don’t need to know. Only members are allowed to their functions, but on Saturday night the rules were bent just a little in order to raise money for The Lily Fund, a charity whose mission is to find a cure for GME. GME is a central nervous condition that affects our canine friends. The lily fund is part of the good human project’s animal welfare fund.
This past Saturday the All-Star Chef Classic rounded out its four-day experience with the Grill & Chill presented by DCS and Stella Artois. The closing night event took place both inside of Restaurant Stadium and in the All-Star Chefs’ Tasting Arena.
The All-Star Chefs’ Tasting Arena was an open-air foodtopia! Yes, I just made that word up. There were tents placed throughout the venue that represented a variety of food options. After checking in I was handed a key ring that had a bunch of mini credentials on it, each credential represented a tent. In order to try a particular dish you had to hand in the credential with the chefs’ name on it and in turn, you would receive a plate.
Melissa’s, the largest distributor of specialty produce in the United States, presented the All-Star Chef Classic Cuisine For The Cure benefiting City of Hope on Friday, March 13 at Restaurant Stadium. City of Hope, located in Duarte, CA, is “the leading research and treatment center for cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening diseases.”
The All-Star Chefs that were tasked with throwing down in the kitchen for this event were Suzanne Goin, Brooks Headley, Jenn Louis, and Aaron Sanchez. The theme for the night was superfoods, each chef had to incorporate these “nutrient powerhouses that pack large doses of antioxidants, polyphenols, vitamins, and minerals” into his or her dish. The chefs did some awesome things; the food was tasty, healthy, and light.
