In celebration of Earth Day, Friday 4/22/2022, we collaborated with Weiser Family Farms on a one-of-a-kind outdoor farm-to-table experience! Featuring some of LA’s best chefs, we brought freshness of farm and sea directly to the farm table.
Portion of the proceeds were donated to environmental non-profit, Heal the Bay, dedicated to protect the coastal waters & watersheds of Greater LA. Together we raised over $3800.
FEATURED CHEFS & TEAM
Chef Royce Burke | Owner, Secret Lasagna & Yarrow. TV Personality. Private Chef.
Chef Burke is the chef and creator of Secret Lasagna, a popular pop-up concept and late-night downtown comfort food delivery turned restaurant. While continuing to work on high profile events throughout California, Burke also opened Yarrow, a breakfast and lunch cafe on Fairfax Avenue. There’s nothing this man can’t do!
He savors the opportunities to cook alongside some of his favorite culinary colleagues Evan Kleiman, Jeremiah Tower and Ray Garcia. Burke’s cuisine has been featured at major food events from the Los Angeles Food & Wine to Pebble Beach Food & Wine and LA Times Food Bowl to The Taste with LA Times and at South by Southwest.
@royce_burke, @yarrowcafe, @secret_lasagna
Chef Rich Mead | Owner & Executive Chef Farmhouse at Roger’s Garden.
With decades of culinary expertise, Chef Rich Mead has cultivated relationships with the highest regarded local organic farms, allowing him to create the freshest menus using locally sourced, seasonal ingredients and specially grown vegetables. In 2016, after years of planning, Chef Mead unveiled a unique and sustainable field-to-fork dining experience at Farmhouse, located within Roger’s Gardens.
Prior to creating Farmhouse, Mead founded, owned and acted as Executive Chef for several Southern California destination restaurants including Sage Restaurant in Newport Beach, Sage on the Coast in Newport Coast, Canyon Restaurant in Anaheim Hills and Seventeenth Café in Santa Monica.
Rich was named restaurateur of the year by the Orange County Business Journal in 2007, Orange County’s Chef of the Year at the 2017 Golden Foodie Awards and Favorite Chef in Times OC’s 2018 Reader’s Choice Awards.
@FarmhouseAtRG @chefrichmead
Chef Emily Efraimov | Owner, Little Dacha
Displaced of housing at the start of the pandemic, Chef Emily Efraimov began her pop up, Little Dacha, which she operated and delivered out of the same car that held her belongings; living in eight different places, within 16 months. With her pop up, she traces her heritage and focuses on rustic, Russian and Circassian inspired food.
Prior moving to Los Angeles, she was in the advertising department at Bon Appétit Magazine. Here, she worked hospitality marketing during the day, then at night, cooked at notable kitchens like Animal and Hatchet Hall.
n 2021, she was featured in several articles by Bill Addison, James Beard Award-winning restaurant critic of Los Angeles Times Food.
@littledacha @iframeyourshelf
Chef Diego Argoti | Previously Pasta & Bread Director Bestia LA
Chef Diego previously was the pasta and bread director at Bestia LA. Later was promoted as one of the opening chefs of Bavel. During the pandemic, he branched off to his own ventures and started cooking pasta on the street to find a purpose as a chef again. We can’t wait for everyone to enjoy his incredible pasta and food.
@mr.argoti
Chef Hannah Ziskin | Owner, Quarter Sheets
Chef Hannah Ziskin is an LA based pastry chef, cake maker, and co-owner of LA’s hottest new pizza joint, Quarter Sheets Pizza in Echo Park.
Previously the pastry chef at M. Georgina in Downtown Los Angeles, she’s spent the last decade baking at some of the Bay Area’s most well-regarded establishments including the legendary Chez Panisse, James Beard award-winning Bar Tartine, and SF institution Nopa.
In 2017, she was included in Zagat’s “30 Under 30” National list of chefs re-defining the industry.
@hannahziskin @quartersheets
Elaina Leibee | Sommelier, Wine Director, Erewhon
We are thrilled to have Elaina Leibee curate our evening’s wines. Her exquisite palette and extensive knowledge for all wines has made Elaina one of LA’s most talented sommeliers. Elaina has also previously directed wines for Esters Wine in Santa Monica, Canyon Gourmet and her own company, MAGO Events.
@vineandbine