Reel Eats goes Sideways for LA’s Italian+Bar

Reel Eats Does it again! Guests, storytellers, film buffs, friends and chefs gathered together last sunday to enjoy yet another instalment of Reel Eats. This time Chef Aaron Foster from LA’s Italian+Bar, cooked up a Sideways inspired 4-course dinner at the Aphrodite Cooks loft in the west end of the city.

Chef Jo Lusted and Reel Eat creators Mario Stojanac, Mary Luz Meija and Vanessa Yeung

Chef Aaron’s Sideways, Market-Fresh Inspired Menu included;

First Course- Miles’ Green with envy green and white asparagus, smoked burrata, tomato jam, green sauce

Second Course - Joker Jack’s Laughing Bird shrimp cavatelli, fava beans, mint pesto, pecorino

Third Course - Stick Your Neck Out Roast pork neck, house-made sausage, brown butter, fork-crushed fingerlings, walnuts, Bourbon-apple reduction

Fourth Course – Life’s Agri-Dolce Strawberry shortcake with 12 year-old balsamic, black pepper, crème frâiche

Henry of Pelham Estates Wines

Fava beans and butter – yum!

Daniel Speck – one of the co-founding brothers of Henry of Pelham Estates

Cutting the pork neck

Chef Jo Lusted garnishing the plates

Storyteller Ann Shin talking about growing up in Vancouver with her Korean family

Chef and his team putting final touches on dessert