Studio Gourmet presents an evening with
Executive Chef’s & Owner's
Lori Baker & Jeff Banker

Baker & Banker is a collective culinary idea, some 12 years in the making. Like most culinary couples, Pastry Chef Lori Baker, & Chef Jeffrey Banker had dreamed of owning & running a restaurant for aboutas long as they had been together.

The Chefs:
Lori Baker, a graduate of Johnson and Wales, has been pastry chef at EOS, Home, Slow Club, Gordon’s House of Fine Eats and Bizou and pastry assistant at Postrio, Bix and Fifth Floor under Laurent Gras. She also did stages at Hotel Metropole in Brussels, Belgium and L’Angolo Dolce in Lucca, Italy. She was most recently a professor of pastry at The California Culinary Academy.

Jeff Banker is a chef by training whose early stints include Patina in Los Angeles and Postrio in San Francisco. He was more recently Sous Chef at Acme Chophouse and Bix, Executive Chef for three years at Home Restaurant, Guest Chef at the popular Mission Street Food, and he also staged at (Michelin three-star) Lucas Carton in Paris while attending Le Cordon Bleu on a scholarship awarded by the IACP.

Joinus for an amazing evening that will include:

A Live Cooking Demonstration
 In-depth Interview
A variety of small Bites from the restaurant

Jeff will be making Chanterelle mushroom and farro risotto,
roasted butternut squash, poached farm egg, and salsa verde
&
Lori will be making Pumpkin Cobbler

All this for only $25.00

Studio Gourmet is now being hosted at Circolo
www.circolosf.com

Date: October 25, 2011
Time: 5:30pm
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