Gracie’s Presents: Star Chef Event with Chef Evan Mallett POSTPONED

Ellen — Mon, 23 Mar 2015 15:46:17 +0000

Star Chef Evan Mallett

Editors Note: This Event is postponed due to a schedule conflict. We will keep you posted on a new date as soon as we can confirm.

Chef Evan Mallett is a steward of history. His restaurant, Black Trumpet Bistro, in Portsmouth, NH resides in a building that dates to at least the early 1800’s, and is now on its third incarnation as a restaurant since 1970. Chef Mallett and his wife, Denise, opened Black Trumpet Bistro in 2007, and quickly became noted for their menu highlighting local and seasonal ingredients.

Chef Evan Mallett and Chef Matt Varga – Photo by JWessel Photography

As any good historian will tell you, though, the best way to honor history is to learn and create a better future. This is why Chef Mallet sits on the boards of Chef’s Collaborative, Slow Food Seacoast, and The Heirloom Harvest Project. His dedication to local, seasonal foods is rooted in the idea that “people have to see the impact they have as individuals. Food is a necessity. Fine dining is a luxury. We need both to make us happy, but our daily actions must be committed to changing the way we eat if we want a healthy world for our grandkids.”

Chef Mallett is joining us on Monday, April 20, as our next star chef in our 2015 Star Chef Series. He is a three time James Beard semi-finalist for Best Chef, Northeast, and MSN Travel calls his dishes “uniformly inventive and healthy.” Adam Richman, of Man vs. Food, called Black Trumpet one of the 12 best places to eat in America.

Star Chef Evan Mallett – Photo by JWessel Photography

We asked Star Chef Mallett a few questions about food, cooking, and guilty pleasure food. We also discovered something about the wooden spoon.

Do you have a favorite cookbook?

I have a few books about food that I love (I’ve been reading The Third Plate by Dan Barber), but not one favorite cookbook. Mastering the Art of French Cooking was probably the best researched cookbook ever, so if I had to pick one… A close second is the one I am working on now, which is scheduled to hit bookshelves in 2016. It’s a very exciting project that tells the story of Black Trumpet, my restaurant, and the food community that evolved around it.

What was your inspiration for using local/regional ingredients when you opened Black Trumpet Bistro?

I have always used local ingredients since I began cooking. I am hard-wired that way.

What is your favorite kitchen tool?

Hmm. Wooden spoon or Vita-prep. It’s a toss-up.

What is your guilty pleasure food?

Route 11 Dill Pickle Potato Chips dipped in gravlax pimento cheese.

Join Us and Star Chef Evan Mallett On April 20

Star Chef events include a cocktail reception with passed canapes, a five-course seated tasting menu, and wine pairings. Reservations are required, as seating is limited. Tickets for this very special dinner are $125 per person, exclusive of tax and gratuity. Contact tenneal@graciesprov.com or call 401.272.7811 to reserve your seat at the table.

Passed Canapes – Photo by JWessel Photography

Planning – Photo by JWessel Photography

Photo by JWessel Photography

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Gracie’s Star Chef Series

Ellen — Sun, 25 May 2014 12:00:30 +0000

The Star Chef Series at Gracie’s is a tradition we love and look forward to every year. These special dinners began in 2007, during our Share Our Strength: No Kid Hungry dinner. In order to make the event a great success, we invited several guest chefs to work with us. It was an amazing evening, with our team working together with invited chefs to support No Kid Hungry. The event was a success, and also a lot of fun. We loved the idea of welcoming guest chefs into our kitchen and the Gracie’s Star Chef Series was born.

The Star Chef Series gives us the opportunity to turn over our kitchen to our colleagues and friends, to share ideas, and to appreciate what some of our favorite chefs are working on. It is a refreshing experience to collaborate with others in the food community in order to create great menus for each event. However, the best reward from these dinners is sharing an evening of delicious food and wine with you!

Our first 2014 Star Chef dinner was held on March 24th, 2014. We were honored to welcome Chef Evan Mallet, Owner and Chef of Black Trumpet Bistro in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. This was his fifth appearance at Gracie’s as part of our Star Chef Series. In 2011, and again this year, Evan was named as a James Beard semi-finalist for Best Chef, Northeast. He is actively involved in the food community, and sits on the boards of Chefs Collaborative, Slow Food Seacoast, and the Heirloom Harvest Project, an initiative to join farmers, chefs and educators to identify and restore a food system native to the Greater New Hampshire Seacoast. Here is the menu from Chef Evan Mallet’s dinner:

Passed Hors d’ oeuvres

bay scallop, tomato vinegar, candy cap mushroom oil

potato sausage, creme fraiche, mustard caviar

ricotta cheese cornets, soft herbs, honey

chermoula chicken kebab, fresh coriander, harissa ketchup

Menu

cauliflower tempura, tahini aioli, green chickpea vinaigrette, Lebanese mint

berbere bison tartare, pickled quail egg, watercress, rooibos onion jam

golden tilefish, wild things broth, lardons, sorrel risotto, morel conserva

Intermezzo

bee balm, walnut bitters?

warm terrine of socca and lamb sugo, roasted peppers, black olive, absinthe tomato cream

fried avocado ice cream, banana flan, toasted coconut, cashew cheese

Our next Star Chef Series dinner will be on Monday, June 9, 2014 at 6 p.m. Chef Michael Ginor, of Lola, in Great Neck, New York will join us for this five-course dinner, paired with wine from The Savory Grape. Chef Ginor has won numerous awards, including the 1996 Award for Excellence from the James Beard Foundation. We hope you will join us for a wonderful evening of food, wine, and friendship. For reservations, contact Keira at keira@graciesprov.com, or call Gracie’s at (401) 272-7811.

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Gracie’s Presents: Star Chef Event with Chef Evan Mallett POSTPONED

Star Chef Evan Mallett

Join Us and Star Chef Evan Mallett On April 20

Gracie’s Star Chef Series