Pipeline is giving away two tickets to attend the StarChefs.com Rising Star Review on Monday, December 5 at The Nines in Portland. To win, comment on this post why you’d like to attend. Winners will be drawn and emailed Friday, December 2.
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From our sponsors at StarChefs.com:
Starchefs.com Rising Stars Revue
Monday, December 5
7-10 p.m. | $85 | 21+
Purchase Tickets at www.starchefs.com/cook/chefs/2011-portland-rising-stars
The Nines
525 SW Morrison Street
StarChefs.comâ„¢, the award-winning online magazine for culinary insiders, is thrilled to announce its Portland Rising Stars winners for 2011. The winning chefs will be showcased at the StarChefs.com Rising Stars Revue on Monday, December 5, 2011, from 7pm to 10pm at The Nines Hotel.
Hosted by Chef Matt Christianson of Urban Farmer, the walk-around tasting gala gives diners the opportunity to sample dishes from StarChefs.com's Portland tastings, with beverage pairings by the winning sommeliers and mixologists, in one location, for one night only. This is the first year StarChefs.com has held a Rising Star Revue in Portland.
The Rising Stars awards recognize up-and-coming chefs, pastry chefs, sommeliers, and mixologists from around the country that represent future leaders of the national culinary scene. Each year StarChefs.com selects four American cities in which to name its Rising Stars. Candidates are nominated by the StarChefs.com Advisory Board, previous winners, local media, and the StarChefs.com website, as well as through StarChefs.com's editorial research. Winners are then chosen by the StarChefs.com editorial team.
The 2011 Portland Rising Stars Award Winners Are:
CHEFS
Aaron Barnett, St. Jack - www.stjackpdx.com
Greg Perrault, June - www.junepdx.com
Sarah Pliner, Kat Whitehead, and Jasper Shen, Aviary - www.aviarypdx.com
Naomi Pomeroy, Beast - www.beastpdx.com
William Preisch, The Bent Brick - www.thebentbrick.com
Gabriel Rucker, Le Pigeon - www.lepigeon.com
SUSTAINABILITY CHEF
Sunny Jin, The Jory, Allison Inn & Spa - www.theallison.com
COMMUNITY CHEF
Jenn Louis, Lincoln - www.lincolnpdx.com
CONCEPT CHEF
Salumist Elias Cairo, Olympic Provisions - www.olympicprovisions.com
HOTEL CHEF
Andy Arndt, Aquariva at Avalon Hotel & Spa - www.aquarivaportland.com
PASTRY CHEFS
Kir Jensen, The Sugar Cube - www.thesugarcubepdx.com
Kristen D. Murray, Paley's Place - www.paleysplace.net
BAKERY
Tim Healea, Little T American Baker - www.littletbaker.com
SOMMELIERS
Jack Hott, Castagna - www.castagnarestaurant.com
MIXOLOGISTS
Jeffrey Morgenthaler, Clyde Common - www.clydecommon.com
RESTAURATEUR
Kurt Huffman, ChefStable - www.chefstablegroup.com
HOST CHEF
Matt Christianson, Urban Farmer - www.urbanfarmerrestaurant.com
Tickets for the 2011 Portland Rising Stars Revue are $85 per person; VIP tickets are $125 and include a private reception with tasting preview, Champagne, and Petrossian caviar, beginning at 6pm.
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My wife and I would love to attend because we love food. Simple as that. What better way to enjoy the unique tastes of Portland than to attend an event like this?
We’d be extremely grateful for tickets!
Thanks,
Dan
i think of a better way to impress a beautiful lady and satisfy my belly all at the same time
Dec 5th is my mom’s birthday and she does so much for me and my son it would be so nice to win this for her. we have lived with her for free for the past 5 years and now that I am able to move out this would be a nice birthday/”thank you for all you’ve done for me mom” gift
i *can’t think
I would love to go to the Rising Star Revue! I just started my own cooking blog and love learning about food. I’m going on dishcrawl tonight, can’t wait!
My hubby and I love to dine out in Portland, and would love the chance to try out so many different and wonderful new eats!
This tasting event sounds like a great opportunity to try food from the best in our region. I would love to attend. I’m off Tuesday, so I can stay late!
Wow! I would love to attend this. Sounds amazing!
I would love to take my foodie gf this event, it would score me some major points!
I want to win because I loooove food and great Portland food at that!
I have a fever, and the only cure is delicious food and drink!
I think it’s a great event and meant to inspire and reward the efforts of these great chefs and culinary specialists. Yippee for them. And Yippee for me and my plus one if I win.
I’d like to win these tickets because, well, I love good food and I don’t have much $. It sounds like there will be great food at this event.
Please pick me….please! please?
A lot of emergency issues came up this month so a free night out would be great.
My coworker thinks I should win these tickets because he’d like me to bring more ideas back to our “lab” where we’ve cranked out magical goodies including Cake ‘n Bacon & Bourbon on Bourbon Pumpkin Pie. It’s a simple kitchen in an warehouse office and we all know developers need fuel.
my boyfriend and I love food. He’s currently in culinary school and I’m in between jobs so our fine dinning budget is nil. We love good food and wish we could afford to try great food.
I had nothing to do with Jewel entering this contest, and I’m definitely not trying to boost our odds.
Finally, I can get some high end food on a Monday night! Woot!
Just recently went to June, loved it. Interested to see how they stack up in the competition!
I love that Portland is becoming a leader in the foodie scene in the US! We are so lucky to live here. This is the first I have heard of the online magazine and already can see I will be addicted! In the wine industry, so would love to attend!
Looks like an amazing event!
What a cool event
StarChefs.com certainly knows how to turn the Monday frown upside down with their Rising Stars Revue. We are living in a yumsters paradise here in Portland. Let’s toast our talented, dedicated, hard working chefs, pastry pros, mixologists and sommeliers. To cordial cordials and relish to relish. Meat to eat and bread to break. We shall trumpet the crumpet, while we clink the drink, savor the flavors and sing of wine in the City of Roses. Looking forward to the Monday gala at the top o’ The Nines…
PDXpipeline…
I would love to go to this event to get a fresh taste of whats out there. Its been awhile since I have worked as a chef, and Im thinking of re-entering the culinary world in getting a second job. Times are tough, but I dont want to go in with cold feet. Please help me to assess the new talent/tastes that are out there/
Mahalo
Jeremiah Aulani Johnson
I’d love to go to meet new people & try new food.
I find moments like this, of the sharing of community and feasting, to be the greater moments of living. And what better time for an event like this to be put on than at the kickoff of the Christmas season. We’ve just come through the dining of Thanksgiving, what better way to keep the food coming than to gather around with the best of Portland’s chefs and mingle while we feast.
Thank the God’s it’s the Holidays.
As a substitute teacher, I rarely have the funds to treat my bf for a night out. This sounds like a fabulous opportunity to do just that while sampling the best Portland’s restaurants have to offer. Fingers are crossed!
I’d love to win!! My husband is a chef and we are both huge foodies. I’d love to take him as an early Christmas present! :)
I’m a wannabe Portland foodie, and this event would give me enough street cred to drop the wannabe part.
I would love the opportunity to win these tickets. I’ll be visiting Portland next week for a job interview. A foodie friend of mine is coming along, and what better way to introduce myself (and my friend) to Portland than to enjoy some of Portland’s finest foods!
I would love to win this so I can take my chef friend to this. He never gets a break from running his restaurant And this would be so much fun for both of us and do inspiring for him
I love to cook, but I haven’t tried any of these Portland restaurants. I would be thrilled to surprise my husband with a lovely evening out!
I would like to win because I love to cook and watch others do it and I love attending events!
What a great event! Tickets to this would definitely help me land a date. Finally.
i cannot think of a better way to celebrate the end of another school term than with some delicious eat and drink in such a spectacular location!
Please, please, pretty please.
I haz chesseburger?
Because I love food and it only gets better when it’s paired with drinks
I love food! This would be such a great time!
I just moved to Portland all the way from Kentucky. I can’t think of a better way to be welcomed to town than this!
would love to attend this event!
My boyfriend and I love the food scene in Portland! I cook constantly and am considering culinary school… we would have a wonderful time at this event!
Because I can rhyme. Food is good.
I have a confession: I F*CKIN’ LOVE FOOOOOOD!! I WOULD BE ABSOLUTELY BLOODY BLESSED TO TASTE THE CREATIONS COMING OUT OF THESE CHEF’S KITCHENS. As an aspiring chef, working a 2nd job at a shi**y local diner, I dream to one day serve under (and become) some of these chefs, and this would be an amazing opportunity to both sample some scrumptious vittles as well as network (carpe diem).
Thanks for this opportunity!
Can you say “tasty”? That’s why. Tasty food, well prepared!
I’m starving!
Chefs are my celebrities! I would love to win tickets to this because (a) I couldn’t afford these on my own and (b) this is something on my bucket list, I’d love to be around this level of foodies I follow…
This could be one of the more intriguing events of the year with such a cast and scope of taste and interest… I’d happily accept tickets!
I love fancy food! This would so be my thing!
I’m trying to impress my friend. This looks impressive. I should take him.
I would love to get these as a gift for my parents!
Looks like a fabulous event. We are true foodies and locavores, so would definitely enjoy attending.
I want to go because delectable food (provided by said star chefs) paired with a whole lot of sass and charm (provided by me) is an unbeatable combo.
food=yum
I would love to take my boyfriend who is a chef to this! He recently broke his hand and he needs some cheering up!
I can’t imagine anything better in life then walking around tasting amazing food at an amazing place like the nines. Talk about sensory overload!
Would love to take a friend who had a hard week to such an awesome gala event. These tickets would make her very happy.
Pick me because I am somewhat of a foodie and love trying new things. I would like to try some innovative cuisine from some great chefs.
This sounds like so much fun! And what a great way to end an otherwise dull Monday – good food and drink always seem to make the week much easier to get through. :)
Yum! This sounds like a deliciously good time!
I am a social worker for kids and, therefore, would never be able to afford an event like this one, but I am a food and drink snob when my budget allows. Pick me!
I’d love to go.
I enjoy The Nines and good food and drink, so would love to take my girl friend out for an evening to help kick off the Christmas Holiday Season, and I would invite her uncle to come along with us since he enjoys The Nines too. Of course we would have to buy one ticket if he can come, but that is just fine for such a fun event. I would invite others too, since good food and drink go well with good company. Enjoy the Holidays Everyone in the PDX Pipeline Family :)
I would love to have these tickets for my parents :] cuz my dad has bladder cancer and my mom always has to work :/ so these tickets would be a stress reliever for them since they been walking on egg shells for years
Omg! who doesn’t love food & wine & yummies?? Food is love. Period.
I would love to win these tickets so I could take the guy I’m seeing Paul out for the evening, he’s taken me out on our last 2 dates and now I’d like the chance to take him out. I’m a graduate of The Oregon Culinary Institute(baking and Pastry) and I have a passion for food as well. I just signed up and this is my first time entering a contest through you guys, so it’s no biggie if I don’t win because I’ll keep entering :)
Best wishes, Jeffrey
I would love to take my mom to this even while she’s in town! What a great xmas gift it would be!
I love food. I love wine. And together they become a magical experience for me! This would be a fantastic way to get a chance to have a nice night out and feel special for a night, after having so little to look forward to lately!
Amazing food I can’t wait to try!
I am an avid reader of eater pdx . What an awesome way to sample the a variety of chefs regularly featured in the Portland food scene!
My boyfriend and I do not have money to spend on frivilous events like this as our dollars usually go to bills and mortgage. For one night it would be a treat to pretend we were food royalty and taste the sumptuous treats and libations prepared by Portland’s finest foodies.
This is sounds like a fantastic night. Get me out of my box, I’ve never attended something like this!
Eating and drinking is my thing, like everyone else. However, I also love to cook and bake, and it’s always fun to compare my wares with the pros. Bribes accepted? There’s a really fantastic cake that I could deliver, ha ha.
Oh Yeah! Count me in for these tickets please.
I would love to take my super food friend who has been such a nice friend to me (showed me around PDX, sent me to great food places) and I would love to repay him by taking him to this!!!
Love, love, love the Portland food scene & we frequently fill our bellies in support of our hometown chefs. We’d love to attend in an attempt to spread the love to a few of the new up & comers – also known as whippersnappers in our neck of the ‘burbs. I promise to bring my bubbling personality and bag of party tricks!
Sounds awesome and tasty! Would love to try samplings from some of Portland’s top chefs, especially those I haven’t sample from yet!
LOVE the culinary arts, and got the hips to prove it!
Food, drinks, great chefs, and at the nines what else.
MMMMMMMMMM….
What’s a dollop? I NEED to know
If I could choose to be anywhere in the world this night I would choose starchefs! That’s not hyperbole, it’s a simple fact.
That also happens to be the night of my partner’s birthday, who, like me, is a geek for good food and drink!
I would love to win tickets because I know an up and comming star cheff that needs to attend such a palate expanding experience! I’m excited guys! Fancy venue!