Guest Chefs Infuse Philly's Finest Restaurants During PIFA

     Eleven restaurants in Philadelphia are preparing to welcome visiting chefs from Lyon and Paris, France during PIFA. This is a very unique culinary collaboration that you don’t want to miss!  The local chefs and the guest chefs will work together to create a special menu inspired by PIFA.  You can taste the special menus at some of Philly’s finest restaurants from April 13^th – May 1^st. 

Rouge on Rittenhouse Square is hosting a chef from France
Photo Credit: GPTMC

     The visiting chefs will be introduced to their hosting chefs for the first time on April 11^th.  They will work with their hosting restaurant until April 17^th but the special menus will be available the remainder of PIFA. Make your reservations to dine at the participating restaurants; Amuse, Bibou, Bistrot La Minette, Caribou Café, Fork, Lacroix, Le Bec-Fin, Parc, R2L, Rouge and Table 31.  Each restaurant will have it's own menu so check our more than one while this unique collaboration is cooking up!

Chef pairings include:

• Michael Abt of Parc with Frédéric Berthod from 33 Cité (Lyon)

• Terence Feury of Fork with Simon Lacassin from Préfecture du Rhône (Lyon) 

• Daniel Stern of R2L with Babette De Rozieres from La Table de Babette (Paris)

• Pierre Calmels of Bibou with Olivier Paget from Le Fleurie (Lyon)

• Jon Cichon of Lacroix with Frédéric Côte from Restaurant au Colombier (Lyon)

• Chris Scarduzio of Table 31 with Arnaud Languille from Clostan Traiteur (Lyon)
• Olivier Desaintmartin of Caribou Café with Jean-Paul Borgeot from La Tassée (Lyon)
• Dan Black of Amuse  with Eric Brujan from L’Orénac Le Méridien Etoile (Paris)
• Peter Woolsey of Bistrot La Minette with Joseph Viola from Daniel et Denise (Lyon)
• Georges Perrier of Le Bec Fin with Mathieu Viannay from La Mère Brazier (Lyon)
• Michael Yeamans of Rouge with Nasserdine Mendi from Chocolate Weiss (Lyon)

    Click here : http://www.pifa.org/culinarycomponent to see how the chef’s are paired up.  Note that the photos feature the visiting chefs.

Fork is one of the restaurants hosting a visiting chef for PIFA
Photo Credit: GPTMC

Stay tuned for more PIFA sneak peak events. It will be coming to Philadelphia April 7th – May 1st. This post was written with the support of PIFA.

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