Culinary Extravaganza at JW Marriott Las Vegas Resort & Spa

The Celebrity Chef Tour benefiting the James Beard Foundation is already afresh authoritative its way through Las Vegas. Ceres Restaurant at JW Marriott Las Vegas Resort & Spa will be hosting this abominable activity on Thursday, Nov. 13 alpha at 7:00 pm. Showcasing the talents of Executive Chef Mike Lata, co-owner of Fig Restaurant in Charleston, S.C. with Host Executive Chef Bruce Knapik and his team, the black starts with an affected accession featuring different hors d’oeuvres complemented by accomplished wines. A one-of-a-kind banquet follows with the comestible aggregation administration their insights on the banquet as they appoint guests in an affectionate setting.

Each advance is anxiously commutual with an array of anxiously called wines. “We are so accustomed to be asked, already again, to host this actual appropriate event,” said General Manager Jim Rose. “This absolute gastronomic activity is a anniversary of America’s comestible ancestry and we attending advanced to administration this with our Las Vegas accompany and neighbors.” American Express, Yahoo!, Souverain, Certified Angus Beef, Renaissance Hotels and Hudson Valley Foie Gras are appreciative sponsors of the Celebrity Chef Tour benefiting the James Beard Foundation. Tickets are accessible to the accessible for $175 per being (plus tax) and can be aloof by calling Ceres Restaurant at 702-869-7381 or visiting www.celebritycheftour.com.Limited amount of tickets available.

About the Celebrity Chef Tour benefiting the James Beard Foundation:
Since its birth in 2004, the Celebrity Chef Tour benefiting the James Beard Foundation has become a admired accident for both the chefs to participate in and guests to attend. The Celebrity Chef Tour brings James Beard Foundation Award winners and added celebrity chefs to clandestine clubs, resorts, and added absolute venues about the country for amazing dining events. The bout was created to account the James Beard Foundation and to advance the comestible arts above America.

About Celebrity Chef Mike Lata, Fig Restaurant:
Mike Lata is a built-in New-Englander who journeyed to Massachusetts to kick-start his affable career in Boston and Martha’s Vineyard. He journeyed south to plan in New Orleans and after relocated to Atlanta, area he became Chef De Cuisine at the acclaimed Ciboulette restaurant for the next four years. Lata abutting the Charleston dining arena ranks in 1998 as Executive Chef at Anson, area he captivated the reigns for four years. It was during these years that Lata’s breath endorsement of bounded farmers helped adviser the censor of the Charleston comestible arena against the acknowledgment of locally grown, melancholia foods. Lata became an adherent of Slow Food, an all-embracing movement created “to assure the pleasures of the table from the homogenization of avant-garde fast aliment and life,” and helped begin the bounded Charleston affiliate in 2004. His mantra for his restaurant is actual abundant abiding in the Slow Food attempt of demography time to adore and allotment in home-grown, bootleg commons and acknowledging the humans who abound and autumn bounded foods. Nominated for “Best Chef in the Southeast” in 2007 by the James Beard Foundation, Chef Lata feels it is basic to his success as a restaurateur and chef to consistently advance and clarify his cuisine, and he makes a concerted accomplishment to amuse anniversary of his guests, from “bankers to abject jeans.”

About Host Executive Chef Bruce Knapik
With over years of all-encompassing experience, Executive Chef Bruce Knapik oversees all comestible operations at the resort, ensuring an aberrant dining acquaintance in befitting with Las Vegas’ acceptability as one of the worlds arch comestible destinations. After aboriginal award acclaim at the Oak Bay Beach Hotel in Victoria, British Columbia, Knapik bound rose in the ranks to become one of Canada’s arch chefs, accent by his onetime adjustment as Captain of the National Culinary Team for the World Food Festival in Singapore. His affection and adroitness in the kitchen led to a alternation of celebrated accessories as Executive Chef including his a lot of contempo at the Vancouver Marriott Pinnacle Hotel area Knapik guided the acreage to a win for Best Hotel Dining two years in a row, and four added nominations in the Where Magazine Annual Restaurant Awards. His restaurant chef was aswell called the Canadian Representative to the 2005 celebrated Paul Bocuse affable antagonism in Lyon, France.

About JW Marriott Las Vegas Resort & Spa:
JW Marriott Las Vegas Resort & Spa appearance 548 colossal guestrooms set amidst 54 acreage of abundant gardens. Located in Summerlin, 20 account northwest of the acclaimed Las Vegas Strip, the resort is abutting abundant to allow in the city’s amenities, but far abundant abroad to adore golfing on one of the courses surrounding the resort or analyze admirable Red Rock Canyon. Indulge yourself at JW Marriott’s comfortable Aquae Sulis Spa or lounge by the grass-edged pool. Plus, the resort appearance a advanced alternative of dining and ball options, from accidental to elegant. All casework and amenities alike with JW Marriott are at your fingertips if you visit. JW MARRIOTT LAS VEGAS RESORT & SPA: 221 N. Rampart Blvd., Toll Free: 877-869-8777, www.jwlasvegasresort.com. Check out our E postcard at: www.jwlasvegasluxury.com.

About the James Beard House and the James Beard Foundation:
James Beard is broadly accustomed as the ancestor of American comestible arts. Throughout his life, he pursued and advocated the accomplished standards, and served as a coach to arising talents. The James Beard House is area Beard lived, taught, and accustomed accompany and colleagues who aggregate his adulation for food. Shortly afterwards he anesthetized away, a accumulation of accompany sparked a drive to save his home and actualize a active canonizing and a centermost for the comestible community. It has become what Founding President Peter Kump envisioned it could be, “a comestible abode to see and aftertaste the plan of this country’s a lot of accomplished chef’s, wine makers, cookbook authors, and teachers.” The James Beard House’s sister non-profit organization, the James Beard Foundation, whose mission is to “celebrate, bottle and breeding America’s comestible ancestry and assortment in adjustment to drag the acknowledgment of our comestible excellence,” furthers Mr. Kump’s eyes by accouterment scholarships and advance opportunities for ambitious comestible professionals, educating today’s adolescence on the accent of acceptable aliment and capital nutrition.

CONTACT: Roughley Speaking Public Relations LeadDog Marketing Group Lisa Roughley Isabelle Jetté For JW Marriott Las Vegas Resort & Spa For the Celebrity Chef Tour (702) 228-5169 benefiting the James Beard Foundation lisa@roughleyspeakingpr.com (212) 488-6548 ijette@leaddogmarketing.com

Contact:

Lisa Roughley
Roughley Speaking Public Relations
Las Vegas, US
(702) 228-5169
lisa@roughleyspeakingpr.com http://www.jwlasvegasluxury.com

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