Food & Wine Pairing
If you're looking for a fun idea for a date night, look no further than this hands-on class in Chef Instructor, Erik's, Upper West Side home. This class is part wine tasting, part cooking, and beautiful plating making it the ideal hands-on Food & Wine Pairing experience.
In this fun and interactive hands-on class, you will learn to make a variety of tapas style dishes, perfect for entertaining guests or hosting your own wine night.
You will learn to make several dishes and each will be paired with it's corresponding wine. Here's an example menu of what you might enjoy during your experience: Garden Fresh Seafood Cocktail & Pinot Grigio, Steak & Blue Cheese Bruschetta with Onion and Roasted Tomato Jam & Riesling, Smoked Pimiento Cheese Crostini & Prosecco, Roasted Vegetable and Chevre Quiche & Merlot, BBQ Chicken Bites & Cabernet Sauvignon.
Not only will you cook along with the chef, but you'll receive a guided tasting for each recipe. Chef Erik will explain how to pair dishes with your favorite wines. You may even end up leaving with a new favorite label!
No experience is required! All equipment, ingredients, and wine will be provided by your Chef Instructor. Our events are casual and meant to be fun, relaxing and instructive, not hardcore. This class is designed to be just as fun for the cooking enthusiast who wants to be a part of every step as it is for the first-timer who’s happier observing and assisting.
Please arrive on time.
Born and raised in New York City, Chef Erik was exposed from an early age to cooking with his father, the Executive Chef of the legendary Harlem eatery, Sylvia’s, in the late 1970s. With no formal culinary training, he landed his first kitchen position at the historical French Bakery, Pane Doro, making an assortment of bread and pastries.
Several years later, Chef Elijah served as the supervising chef of Great Performances, which under his lead was named Zagat’s best catering company in New York-serving such renowned clients as President Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Plaza Hotel, Facebook, Goldman and Sachs, and HBO.
Currently, Chef Elijah has aligned himself with top clients in both Atlanta and NYC including: Marcus Samuelsson (Red Rooster, Harlem), Gladys Knight, Wolfgang Puck, Iron Chef Duane Nutter, and Delta Airlines.
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