Nation’s Best Chefs to Visit Traverse City Restaurants

This year's Traverse Epicurean Classic will include 10 Great Chef Dinners at Traverse City's best restaurants, and an international wine importer will be matched with each restaurant to select a complementary wine list. With all the dinners scheduled for Friday, September 12, it's too bad you have to pick just one. Check out the schedule to narrow down your choice.

Today's post on the Epicurean Classic blog says,

It's a great honor for the local host chef / restaurateur to receive such a dignitary, and also thrilling for the guest chef to see a menu based on their life's work. I'll never forget seeing tears in Marcus Samuelsson's eyes a couple years ago as he studied the Amical dinner menu flush with African-influenced dishes from his new book, The Soul of a New Cuisine: A Discovery of the Foods and Flavors of Africa. Marcus arrived straight from the airport and hadn't yet seen a copy of the book. We received them directly from the printer before anyone else in the country.

• Danyel Couet at Amical
• Joey Altman at Hanna
• Joyce Goldstein and Leonardo Curti at Trattoria Stella
• Mark Molinaro at Lobdell's
• Lori Lyn Narlock and Deborah Schneider at Firefly / 310
• Carlyn Berghoff at Bowers Harbor Inn
• Chris Turano at Aerie
• Raghavan Iyer and Don Yamauchi at Red Ginger
• Ted Reader at Blue Tractor
• Wendy Rahamut at Poppycocks

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