Avec’s unfortunate fire has kept Koren Grieveson from turning out her award-wining cuisine from her own kitchen for nearly two months. But that doesn’t necessarily mean that she’s keeping her pots cold. Tomorrow night she joins fellow James Beard Award-winner Jeff Michaud at Philadelphia’s Osteria for a collaborative dinner that benefits the James Beard foundation. The $175 five-course dinner begins with a reception with the chefs, passed canapés and wine. Each course will be served with select wine pairings. Menu highlights include fresh venison salame with fig chips and mostarda, rosemary brined and braised pork cheeks with garbanzo beans, fall squash and Tuscan kale and sundried tomato stew, and chestnut cannelloni with guanciale and roasted pears. Click through to see the entire menu.
Stuzzichini
house made prosciutto cotto with “sgibea”
squash mille foglie with gorgonzola dolce
mortadella crostini
whipped brandade with potato
1st
Apple salad with marcona almonds, celery, manchego, chives and apple vinegar
fresh venison salame with fig chips and mostarda
2nd
Blood sausage with roast shallot and brussel sprout salsa verde
Polenta integrale with stracchino and fall mushrooms
3rd
Rosemary brined and braised pork cheeks with garbanzo beans, fall squash and Tuscan kale & sundried tomato stew
chestnut cannelloni with guanciale and roasted pears
4th
roast chicken and cipolini onions with a celery breadcrumb salsa verde and marinated white anchovies
spit roasted guinea hen stuffed with cabbage served with celery root fonduta
5th
krafen stuffed with huckleberry jam
warm fig tart with zabaione