Chicagoist Food Pr0n: Hot Chocolate's Fourth Anniversary Beer Dinner

By Chuck Sudo in Food on Feb 24, 2009 4:30PM

$Smoked beer pretzel sticks from Hot Chocolate\'s Rachel Slivicki$ $New Glarus Brewing\'s Apple Ale$

Monterey Bay grilled squid, cannellini beans, escarole, bread crumbs from The Publican Executive Chef Brian Huston

$Piece\'s Dark-n-Curvy Dunkelweizen$

From Chris Pandel of the Bristol: chicken liver boudin blanc with farro salad and preserved citrus

Kim chi and rice cake stew with hominy, pork belly and spicy pork broth from Bill Kim (Urban Belly)

$Three Floyd\'s Robert the Bruce Scottish Ale$ $Venison loin and roulade with celery root puree and preserved Door County blackberry from Hot Chocolate\'s Mark Steuer$

Roque River smokey blue cheese with Marcona almond and bacon fat-roasted pink lady apples, prepared by Stephanie Izard.

$Dogfish Head\'s Red and White Ale$ $Unibroue\'s Trois Pistoles ale$ $Mindy Segal\'s banana brioche bread pudding and banana sherbet with spiced graham cracker, coffee cream and milk chocolate hot fudge$

From Elissa Narow: a collection of confections made with Dogfish Head beer

Last night Mindy Segal brought together some of the best chefs in the city to celebrate Hot Chocolate's fourth anniversary with a $100 per person dinner to benefit Share Our Strength, a non-profit that works with local food banks, restaurants and community groups to combat hunger at home. Segal is the chair of Share Our Strength's "Taste of the Nation" event, scheduled for August 13 at Ravenswood Billboard Factory (Full disclosure: this Chicagoist staffer is also on the event committee).

Segal and her guest chefs, Bill Kim, Brian Huston, Chris Pandel, Stephanie Izard and Elissa Narow, put together an 8-course dinner paired with beer selections from Boulevard, Goose Island, Piece, Unibroue, Three Floyds and Dogfish Head that screamed "we aren't messing around this evening."

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