Orlando Fun and Food is excited to announce that the Taste of the Nation Orlando event will be returning for its 25th year to the World Center Marriott on August 9th, 2014! This event showcases the culinary delights of 35 of Central Florida’s leading chefs and restaurants. Along with appetizers, entrees, and desserts from the leading chefs and restaurants in the area, guests will also be able to sample wine, beer, and spirits while enjoying the silent auction, exciting raffle prizes, and entertainment from the Mud Rooster Band. This year will also feature a European-style bier garden sponsored by World Of Beer.
Food Network celebrity chef Melissa d’Arabian, who is best known for her TV Series Ten Dollar Dinners, will also be on hand to help judge the annual Chef Throwdown. The throwdown showcases two chefs going head-to-head in a cooking challenge to determine whose culinary creation reigns supreme. Natural and organic foods supermarket chain Whole Foods is providing the pantry staples for the culinary cook-off and leading premium beef producer Creekstone Farms will award a generous check to the winner of the chef throwdown title which will be presented to Taste of the Nation Orlando.
This year’s silent auction invites guests to bid on luxury apparel and accessories, stays at upscale hotels, gift cards to the area’s top restaurants, rounds of golf on area courses, and tickets to coveted sporting events. Guests can also enter a grand prize drawing for an all-expense paid trip for two to Oktoberfest in Munich!
Tickets to the event are $150 per person and all proceeds benefit Share Our Strength’s efforts to eradicate childhood hunger. Local beneficiaries include Coalition for the Homeless of Central Florida and Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida. Did you know that for each ticket sold up to 102 homeless children can be fed for a whole week? Lets stand up against childhood hunger and get rid of it once and for all!
Here are the details you need to know about the Taste of the Nation Orlando:
– The event will take place on Saturday August 9th, 2014 from 6:45 p.m.- 10:00 p.m.
– The event will take place at the Orlando World Center Marriott which is located at 8701 World Center Drive in Orlando, FL
– Tickets are $150.00 each and the majority of the money goes to Coalition for the Homeless of Central Florida and Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida
-Attire is Cocktail/Semi-Formal
Participating restaurants this year are:
- Bahama Breeze
- BB King’s Blues Club
- Bosphorous Turkish Cuisine
- Cafe Tu Tu Tango
- Capa at Four Seasons Resort Orlando
- The Capital Grille
- Captain’s Grille @ Disney’s Yacht Club Resort
- Cress Restaurant
- Crimson Tavern at Orlando Airport Marriott
- Cuisiniers Catering
- Eddie V’s Prime Seafood
- Emeril’s Orlando
- Emeril’s Tchoup Chop
- Empress Sissi Cake & Pastry Specialties
- FreshPoint
- Journeys Catering
- JW Marriott Orlando – Grande Lakes
- K Restaurant and Wine Bar
- Kobe Japanese Steakhouse
- LongHorn Steakhouse
- Marlow’s Tavern
- Pirate Chefs of Central Florida sponsored by Nestlé Professional
- Orlando World Center Marriott
- Red Wing Restaurant
- Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld
- SeaWorld Orlando
- Second Harvest Food Bank Culinary Training Program
- Soco Southern Contemporary Cuisine
- Rosen Shingle Creek Resort, A Land Remembered Restaurant
- Rosen Shingle Creek Resort, Cala Bella Restaurant
- Sushi Pop Restaurant
- Taverna Opa
- Three2OH
- T-Rex Orlando at Downtown Disney
For more information on the event go to:
Website: www.tasteofthenation.org/Orlando
Facebook: www.Facebook.com/OrlandoTaste
Twitter: @OrlandoTaste
To Order Tickets: Click Here
*All Pictures were provided by Taste of the Nation Orlando
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