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Get Your Foodie Fix at Chicago Gourmet

Where: 201 E. Randolph St., Chicago, IL, 60601
September 24, 2009 at 4:23 PM | by | Comments (0)

Stars like Top Chef Master Rick Bayless, Top Chef contestants Radhika Desa and Fabio Viviani, and season four winner Stephanie Izard will convene in the Windy City for the Chicago Gourmet, an upscale version of the city's famous Taste of Chicago food fest, set for September 26 from 11 am to 6 pm and September 27 from 11 am to 5 pm in Millennium Park.

Luckily, it's not only TV chefs who are invited to the second annual event. Chicago Gourmet organizers want serious foodies to bring their exacting palates to high-end food and wine tastings, cooking demonstrations, educational seminars and celeb chef appearances. And though the roster of attendees reads like a Top Chef reunion, a number of notable chefs, sommeliers and food experts will be there as well. Ted Allen, host of Food Detectives and Chopped; Graham Elliot Bowles, a Top Chef Masters contestant and owner of graham elliot; Paul Kahan, of Blackbird and The Publican; Bill Kim, of Urban Belly; Martial Noguier, of Café des Architectes; and Alpana Singh, master sommelier and host of locally loved TV show Check, Please! are among more than 50 event participants.

The event will have some new features this year. There will be gourmet pavilions on the Great Lawn, where multiple chefs and restaurants will offer tastings of a variety of cuisines, including Asian, French, Seafood, Latin, gastropub, Mediterranean and regional American. Of course, dessert and cheese stations will also be available. Also new this year is the Organic Gourmet Tent, which will offer Southern Wine and Spirit’s organic wines and the Green City Market, the city's only year-round farmers’ market promoting local, sustainable farmers and producers.

Returning from last year is the Grand Cru, which allows attendees to sample wines selected by master sommeliers. During these exclusive 90-minute events, the master sommeliers will be on hand to present and discuss their selections. The Grand Cru is a separate ticketed event at $175 and requires a general admission ticket as well. Attendance is limited to 200 per day.

If all of this makes you lick your chops, you can buy a one-day ticket for $150 or a two-day pass for $250. The more frugal foodies can take advantage of Chicago Gourmet's Dine Around program, where guests get a free one-day ticket to the event by purchasing five meals during through Sept. 27 at any participating restaurant.

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