Green City Market Chef's BBQ

(The BBQ is this Thursday!)

Each month we get asked to do a huge variety of charity events. It is impossible to participate in them all and run a successful restaurant simultaneously. So we pick a couple each month to participate in, where we feel that it is a not only a worthy cause but also where we can get good exposure with other great restaurants and chefs.

Coming up this Thursday is my favorite charitable event of the entire year. It is the Green City Market Chef’s BBQ. Why my favorite? Well, let’s see: It supports local small producers of sustainably grown foods, it’s outdoors in Lincoln Park and there are over 95 restaurants and chef’s preparing dishes made from some of the highest quality ingredients available to us in the Chicago area.

(Interactive at the market via greencitymarket's photostream)

Both of our restaurants will be represented this Thursday, Phil Rubino at the wine cafe will be assisting along with his brunch cook Zach (speaking of brunch cook, did you all remember we just changed the brunch menu at bwc, and I am very proud of it), and, Willi Hewitt, my chef de cuisine at the downtown restaurant will be in attendance along with Tom Laurell, our pastry chef.

We will all be preparing a peach panna cotta with peaches from Seedling Farm with a prosciutto foam and prosciutto dust prepared with prosciutto from La Quercia (made in Iowa) and lastly garnished with mizuna greens from Growing Power Farm.

So if you think that sounds yummy, come by Lincoln Park this Thursday from 6pm until 8pm and taste not only our dish but the food of all of chicago’s culinary world. You won’t be disappointed. You can get tickets at www.brownpapertickets.com. They cost $100 for all you can eat and drink and it goes to a very worthy cause. See you there.