2013 Chefs Dinner & Meet the Chefs Cocktails and Tastings Party

Top Manhattan and Hamptons chefs will be featured at
the 2013 Chefs Dinner (www.greatchefsdinner.com) this
summer in the Hamptons. The much-anticipated event now in its ninth year will
be held on Sunday, July 28th starting at 5:30 p.m. on Hayground School’s campus (151 Mitchell
Lane, Bridgehampton, NY) as a benefit for Hayground School’s Jeff’s Kitchen and the Jeff Salaway Scholarship Fund. 
The event will include a cocktail party from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. featuring
notable Manhattan chefs as
well as top local chefs preparing tastings using local bounty. Confirmed
cocktail chefs at this year’s event include: Arjun
Achuthan (Hayground School), Tom
Colicchio/Ty Kotz (Topping Rose House), Bryan Futerman (Foody’s); Joel
Hough (Il Bucco), Jason Weiner
(Almond), Matt Michel (Rolling in
Dough Pizza); Joe Realmuto (Nick
& Toni's), Davie Simmons (Uptown
Juice Bar), Cheryl Stair (Art of
Eating), Roy Wohlars (The
RiverheadProject) and Christian
Mir (Stone Creek Inn). Product sponsors include: Kona-Ice, Blue Parrot, ZICO Pure
Premium Coconut Water, VerTerra,
PLAIN-T, Greenport Brewing Company, Crystal
Head Vodka, Wolffer Vineyards, Channing Daughters Winery, Diplomatico Rum, Nestle Waters/San Pellegrino and Shaw-Ross International Importers. During the cocktail party there
will be live music by Lily and the Parlor Tricks and a silent art auction
featuring renowned artists. There will also be demos in the newly expanded
Jeff’s Kitchen by TV host and chef George Hirsch and Aesop Skin Care.

 

Intimate VIP Wine Dinner at the Home of Toni Ross Honoring Eric
Ripert

The VIP dinner following the cocktail party will be
held at the home of Toni Ross from 7:30 – 10 p.m. The dinner, honoring
four-star chef Eric Ripert, will feature a four-course meal prepared by a
select few of the participating chefs and paired with wines by Aldo Sohm (Sommelier – Le Bernardin). Confirmed
chefs include the following: Claudia
Fleming (North Fork Table and Inn), Justin Smillie (Il Bucco Alimentari e Vineria), Michael Cavaniola (Cavaniola’s Gourmet
Cheese Shop), Kerry Heffernan
(Finalist “Top Chef Masters” season 4); Steffan
Karlsson (Fond- Gothenburg, Sweden); Marc
Murphy (Benchmarc Restaurants) and Taku
Sato (Nobu57). Products from D’Artagnan
and Fishers Island Oysters will also
be featured. A portion of
the produce used in sit down dinner will be sourced from Hayground School’s Slow Foods Greenhouse.  There
will also be a live auction following the dinner featuring exclusive culinary
and travel packages.

 

 

Ticket Prices and VIP Wine Tables

The “Meet the Chefs” Cocktails and
Tastings party will be held in a festive tent on the Hayground School beautiful
grounds as well as in the newly expanded Jeff’s Kitchen. The event will feature
live music, a silent art auction, bountiful
tastings by top chefs, specialty drinks and NEW this year exciting
demonstrations in Jeff’s Kitchen. 
Tickets for the cocktail party only are $175 per person.  Tickets for the dinner and the cocktail party
are $1,000.

 

Tickets for children will be available
for $40, which includes kids dinner and creative childcare by Hayground Camp
counselors.

 

An Annual Tribute to the Late Jeff Salaway

The Chefs Dinner series is the primary
fundraiser for Bridgehampton’s own Hayground
School (www.haygroundschool.org) and an annual tribute to the late
Jeff Salaway, a widely respected and beloved restaurateur and one of the
school’s co-founders.  Since it’s
inception, this event has raised over $1,000,000 for Jeff’s Kitchen and the Jeff
Salaway Scholarship Fund.  Toni Ross,
who was also the late Salaway’s wife says, “Jeff believed that the growing,
preparation and sharing of food is a primal human experience and the foundation
of family and community.”  Jeff’s Kitchen
is a full service professional kitchen and classroom fitted with
top-of-the-line Viking appliances and a new pizza oven.  Classes in nutrition, food science and
cooking are held there for both children and adults.  Completing the facility, recently a
professional Farmtek greenhouse was erected by Hayground students, staff and
friends with funds provided by Slow Food.

 

Tickets may be purchase online at http://www.greatchefsdinner.com/great-chefs-dinner-info.cfm

For more event information or to purchase
tickets by phone contact Samantha
Dettmer at 631-537-7068 x113 or email at info@greatchefsdinner.org. For press
inquiries contact Nicole Castillo at WordHampton Public Relations at (631) 329-0050.