Traverse City’s Best Restaurants Host Nation’s Best Chefs

This year’s Epicurean Classic, September 11, 12, and 13, will include four enticing receptions and ten, count ‘em, TEN Great Chef Dinners at Traverse City’s best restaurants.
 
Why? Because we’re bringing in more chefs this year, from faraway places like Stockholm, Trinidad, and all over the United States and with an ever - growing number of stellar restaurants in Traverse City, it made sense [...]

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Wine, Food, Mario, Leonardo

Once again, Mario Batali will generously offer his otherworldly cooking skills to the Leelanau Conservancy’s annual Summer Picnic auction. It’s your opportunity to be coddled and fed by the great clogged chef himself in a private Leelanau County dinner for you and eleven friends. What’s it worth? Based on numbers from the last couple years, the winning bidder will [...]

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Going Further with Wine

Wine lovers become wine lovers for any number of reasons but what’s the next step? In other words, how do you direct some of that wine-loving passion into informal wine study, on par with making a wine a hobby? (Dear reader, concentrating on the many alluring shades and sweetly beguiling flavors of white Zinfandel is [...]

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2007 Epicurean Classic

The 4th annual Epicurean Classic featured 75 food, wine, beer, spirits, cigar and cheese tasting seminars, cooking demonstrations as well as guest chef dinners, receptions and cookbook signings.
You can click to view a set of photos from the 2007 Traverse Epicurean Classic (slideshow) and head over to our web site to read articles about the [...]

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Wine Classes at the Epicurean Classic

Wine sales account for thirty percent of net revenue in the average high-end restaurant. Finding and training the right wine staff is crucial. The Epicurean Classic has featured Masters of Wine, Master Sommeliers, and other wine experts and authors to deliver an outstanding curriculum of classes for wine-loving attendees.
In 2007 we added a daylong Wine [...]

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The 2006 Epicurean Classic

You can click on the photo to the right to view a set of photos from the 2006 Traverse Epicurean Classic (slideshow) and click over to our web site to read articles about the event including Traverse City: A food and wine mecca by Sandra Silfven.

Bradley Ogden, Chef, Co-Founder and Co-Proprietor, Lark Creek Restaurant Group
Marcus [...]

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