Chicago Chefs Show off at the Aspen Food and Wine Classic
By Staff in Food on Jun 21, 2011 7:00PM
Chef Stephanie Izard celebrates with her fellow F&W Best New Chefs of 2011.
ABC 7\'s Steve Dolinsky (aka The Hungry Hound) is all smiles during the Red Carpet Welcome Reception held in the courtyard of the Hotel Jerome.
Chef/partner, Ryan Poli of soon-to-open Tavernita showcased some of what his new restaurant will have to offer at the festival\'s Grand Tasting Pavilion.
Mercadito\'s executive chef Patricio Sandoval plates up some pork tacos for guests.
Pork tacos, one of Mercadito\'s offerings.
Chef Marcus Samuelsson (Red Rooster Harlem, C-House/Affinia Chicago) preps some seaside classics to be paired with beers from Stella Artois.
Rob Katz with wife Kathleen and Kevin Boehm, co-founders of Boka Restaurant Group pose for a picture during the Havana Nights Party atop Aspen Mountain hosted by F&W Publisher Christina Grdovic.
Chef Lee-anne Wong (Top Chef, Season 1), Hosea Rosenberg (Winner, Top Chef Season 5) and Linda Novick (Executive Director, Common Threads).
Heather Shouse, Chicago-based food writer and co-author of Chef Izard\'s upcoming cookbook, on hand to help out during the Best New Chefs Dinner at the Aspen Meadows Resort.
Every year, the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen brings some of the country's best chefs, sommeliers, wine producers and hardcore culinarians (read: foodies) together for a weekend of both work and (mostly) play. With cooking seminars, wine tasting workshops, jam-packed tasting pavilions, lavish dinners and notorious after-parties, it's hard not to have a great and gluttonous time. To celebrate our city's raging culinary scene, this slideshow highlights some of Chicago's finest as they eat and drink their way through this year's Classic.
By Huge Galdones
Huge Galdones is a freelance photographer (and occasional contributor to Chicagoist) originally from Montreal, QC and based in Chicago, IL. With mad knife skills, a love for all things fatty and a keen eye, Huge specializes in food and lifestyle photography, documenting and eating his way through Chicago's culinary matrix.
