Epicurean Series | Deep Winter Dinner featuring Celebrity Chef, Chef Plum

An exclusive five course dinner event featuring local celebrity chef, Chef Plum. A graduate of The Culinary Institute of America and currently the host of Seasoned on WNPR, Restaurant Road Trip, and Edible Magazine's "On the Road" - Chef Plum is also a multi-time Food Network winner.

Each course will be paired with a featured cocktail especially selected wine. The evening begins with a welcome reception surrounding a bonfire on the beach followed by a three course dinner inside overlooking the Long Island Sound. The evening concludes with exquisite dessert.

Event begins promptly at 7 p.m. | Attire: Jackets

This ticketed and exclusive event has limited seating.

COVID Aware: Guests must attest to being vaccinated to attend and participate in this event.

PRICING: $125 inclusive per person, includes all food and beverage outlined below, gratuity and sales tax.

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While we do our best to accommodate all requests, Dietary Restrictions may not be able to be accommodated due to specially paired and designed menus. Please reach out directly by email with any specific questions. Jpfeiffer@DHGHotels.com

Reception & Dinner Menu

Reception

Butler Passed hors d’oeuvres:

Crispy King Crab - light tempura, comeback sauce, pork pixie dust

Foie Gras Baked Alaska - pepper jam, meringue

Paired with a Vodka upon arrival .

Dinner

FIRST COURSE

Oyster Stew | sherry steamed brunoise vegetables, pepper sauce, house-made dark rye saltines.

Wine Pairing to be announced

SECOND COURSE

Steelhead Salad | whipped smoked steelhead, hearty winter greens, root vegetable chips, garlic chive citrus dressing

Wine Pairing to be announced

THIRD COURSE

Elk Tenderloin | wild mushroom pierogi, tillamook cheddar whip, crispy garlic chives

Wine Pairing to be announced

DESSERT COURSE

Inside out deep fried Washington apple pie

Vanilla Whiskey Anglaise, crispy pie dough, candy red apple brittle

Wine Pairing to be announced

ABOUT CHEF PLUM

Chef Plum: Born in Richmond, Virginia, Chef Plum is a graduate of The Culinary Institute of America with over 25 years of culinary experience. Chef Plum has worked all over the east coast in everything from five star hotels to great small neighborhood restaurants. Since 2006 Chef Plum has been focused on bringing great, whole, farm foods to families, small parties, celebrities and executives. Chef Plum has been featured on Food Network, ABC's The Taste, Ehow.com, Jamie Oliver’s Foodtube, Hallmark, The New York Times, national commercials and many media outlets. A multiple time winner on Food Network making over 10 appearances with wins on Chopped open your basket, Guy’s Grocery Games, and America's best cook Regional Championship.

Chef Plum has a passion for simple, easy, farm foods, believing great food doesn’t need gimmicks. Chef Plum's latest brainchild, the award winning Dinner Underground has brought a series of pop-up restaurants to the Northeast. Chef Plum is the first chef to ever host a pop up restaurant inside the walls of mall kitchen giant Williams-Sonoma.

Chef Plums series on OnlyGoodTV, “Random Acts of Cooking” is now available on OnlyGoodTV where he travels the country using food to help people. The first episode in the series shows Chef Plum organizing and executing a dinner for 700 US Navy Sailors. The second episode Chef helps some inner city teens show love to their mentors.

He is also the host and executive producer of the incredibly popular series “ Restaurant Road Trip” that was submitted for a New England Emmy.

Chef Plum is the host and producer of the acclaimed video series with Edible Magazine “On the Road”. The series focuses on where food comes from in an informative and comedic way and culminates with a recipe to end each episode. The show is available now on Amazon Prime!

Chef Plum's podcast “ Plumluvfoods Live ”, is a popular show among those in the culinary field and is a top 200 in the

food category on Itunes with over 220 episodes. The show covers all angles of the business and has had great guests such as Guy Fieri, Troy Johnson from Food Network, Beau Macmillan, Emmy award winner Paul Mercurio and many more! The show is live every week on Spreaker Radio and podcast-ed to Stitcher, Spotify, Iheart, Itunes and everywhere podcasts are found. Chef Plum is a regular on Ct Style on WTNH, “BetterCT” on WFSB, FoxCT, Food Network, Star 99.9 and the nationally syndicated shows, “Better” and “Arise 360”.

He is also the Host of Seasoned on WNPR, a radio show broadcast in 4 states, all about great local food unlike any other!

The newest series Elite Chef is a branded content series for the Eli’s Restaurant group that Plum hosted and executive produced was a massive success that provided a platform for 7 chefs as well as getting the word out about Eli’s Restaurant Group. The series will soon be on Amazon Prime.

Chef Plum has served on the judging panel for many prestigious events including, Ny Hot Sauce Expo, Bacon and Beer Classic, The World Food Championship, and Ny Best Wing Festival. As well as a headline chef at many food festivals including the Sun Wine and Food festival at Mohegan Sun and Cuisines of the Sun at La Estancia.

Make it a Long Weekend!

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Click to view Video from our inaugural Epicurean Series Weekend Experience , September 2018.