The Divine Dish

All-Star Chef Classic Lunch

Nancy Silverton, Nancy Oakes, Waylynn Lucas, Naomi Pomeroy and Dominique Crenn

Last weekend, LA Live hosed the first All-Star Chef Classic, a three-day event featuring over 28 renown chefs.

entrance

 Saturday included two events. I attended the first, the “All-Star Lunch”, which celebrated women in the culinary industry with a five-course lunch prepared by chefs Nancy Silverton, Nancy Oakes, Waylynn Lucas, Dominique Crenn and Naomi Pomeroy. The event was held in the custom built Restaurant Stadium which housed roughly 270 diners.  French pastry chef Florian Bellanger and master maitre d’ Donato Poto hosted the event.

Chef Lude Lefebvre

Special guests included Ludo Lefebvre, Pierre Meneau and Marc Meneau.

cooking arena

menu

The five-curse menu began with a carrot, mushroom and hazelnut herbed crème fraiche mousse by Chef Naomi Pomeroy.

Carrot veloute

The second course was Chef Nancy Silverton’s lovely gem lettuce salad with a dressing of champagne vinegar, shallots, lemon juice and olive oil.  It was accompanied by labneh toast. This was my fave of the day.

salad and labneh toast

The third course was Chef Nancy Oakes’ seared scallop over polenta al negro, topped with uni, crab and lardo panzanella.

scallop with polenta al nero

Next came Chef Dominique Crenn’s lamb topped with preserved lemons and cabbage. We loved the dried cabbage on top.

lamb with umeboshi consumme

The afternoon lunch ended with Chef Waylynn Lucas’ dessert of a  buttermilk cake topped with textures of grapefruit, pistachio and coconut.

Buttermilk cake with grapefruit, coconut and pistachio