Last Chance to Purchase Tickets for Tomorrow’s Green City Market Annual Chef BBQ Benefit

With perfect July weather in the forecast for tomorrow and a fantastic chef line up, the 14^th Annual Green City Market Chef BBQ Benefit is sure to be a spectacular evening you will not want to miss, so purchase your tickets now. The Green City Market Chef  BBQ Benefit begins 5:30 p.m. tomorrow (Thursday) in Lincoln Park; Tickets may be purchased online until 4 p.m at http://www.greencitymarket.org. Tickets are not available for sale at the door. The benefit showcases Chicago’s best culinary talent cooking food with fresh and local ingredients from the Green City Market. To complement the irresistible food served, locally made craft beer, wine, hand-crafted cocktails and non-alcoholic beverages will be available. Tickets are still available for purchase on the Green City Market website.  General admission tickets are $125 and can be purchased until 4 p.m. day of the event.

“The Chef BBQ is one of the most anticipated events of the summer and a great time to celebrate all of the amazing food and talent this city has to offer,” said Sarah Stegner, co-president of the Green  City Market board and chef/partner of Prairie Grass Cafe in Northbrook. “The Chef BBQ is very important to the operations of the market. It raises much needed money to support our operations. The market is funded by such donations and grants. We are thankful that it has grown to be one of Chicago’s most popular summer events. Our guests get to experience what truly ‘local farm to table’ is while helping to make it all possible.”

Some of the most anticipated additions to this year’s lineup include:

• Ina Pinkney; Barry Sorkin, Smoque; and Rob Levitt, Butcher and Larder are teaming up for the first time.
• New additions to the chef lineup this year include: Tremaine Atkinson Co-founder/Distille and JP Doiron, CH Distillery; Giuseppe Scurato, Ceres’ Table; Michael Sheerin, Cicchetti; Ken Carter, Gather; Nathan Sears, The Radler.

“The Green City Market BBQ is the not to be missed event of the year for almost every single person I know,” said Jason Hammel, chef and co-owner of Lula Café and Nightwood. “Sous chefs, pastry chefs, executive chefs, cooks, managers, artisans, farmers—so many who contribute to our great Chicago restaurant scene will be there. Look around that night and you'll see a community paying homage to the mission and vision of Abby Mandel, who saw so much potential in our city and the bounty of our local farms.”

See Below for a full list of some of Chicago’s top restaurants and breweries that will have a presence at the BBQ:

676 restaurant Atwood Cafe August Hill Winery/Illinois Sparkling Co. Bar Toma Bar&Kitchen	Gather Goose Island Beer Company GT Fish & Oyster Half Acre Beer Company Haymarket Pub & Brewery Henri	Quince at the homestead Red door Sable Kitchen & Bar Seasons Soda Seedling Sepia
Bell's Brewery	Hickory Creek Winery	Shaw's Chicago
Benny's Chop House	Honey Butter Fried Chicken &	SmallBar Division
Big Jones	Sunday Dinner Club	Smoque and Ina's
Big Star	Intelligentsia Coffee & Kilogram	sola
Bistronomic/LM  Restaurant	Tea	Sparrow Coffee Roastery
Group	KOVAL	Spiaggia/Cafe  Spiaggia
Butcher & Larder Cafe des Architectes	Lakeshore Beverage Laughing Bird	Table, Donkey and Stick Tekla, Inc
Capriole, Inc. & Tekla, Inc.	Limelight Catering	Terzo Piano
Ceres’ Table	Lula Cafe	The Bristol
CH Distillery	Metropolitan  Brewing	The Chopping Block
Chilam Balam, Shaman by	Midwest Wine Selections	The Dawson
Cicchetti	mk The Restaurant	The Gage
Convito Cafe & Market	New Holland Brewing Co.	The Goddess & Grocer
Cookies and Carnitas Crop To Cup / Asi Tea	Nico Osteria Nightwood	The Publican The Publican
Roastery	NoMI Kitchen	The Radler
deca restaurant	North Pond Restaurant	The Signature Room at the 95th
Eli's Cheesecake	North Shore Distillery	Three Floyds Brewpub
Farmhouse Tavern	One Off Hospitality Group	Trenchermen
Forbidden Root Brewery	Park Grill at Millennium Park	Two Brothers Brewing Company
Fox Valley Winery, Inc Fresh Coast Distributors,	Pecking Order Perennial Virant	Uncommon Ground Vera
Lehman's cider, Quincy St.	Piece Brewery	Virtue Cider
Distillery	Prairie Grass Cafe	Wood
Frontera Grill	prasino

About Green City Market

Green City Market is a 501 (c) (3) not for profit organization celebrating its 16th anniversary. The mission of Green City Market is to provide a marketplace for purchasing sustainably grown food and to educate, promote and connect farmers and local producers directly to chefs, restaurateurs and the greater Chicago community. Green City Market values education about quality food and its source. Green City Market is funded by individual donations, corporation sponsorships, grants and fundraising events

Eat, Drink and Be Merry August 20 with Academy for Global Citizenship and Chicago's Top Chefs

The Academy for Global Citizenship is hosting a benefit this Friday, August 20 featuring signature dishes from Chicago's best chefs, drinks from an award winning mixologist and a wine tasting. The event takes place 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. at  2023 West Carroll, Fourth Floor, a private loft space in the Kinzie Industrial Corridor, featuring an outdoor roof deck with unbeatable downtown Chicago views. Tickets are $60 and available at www.agcchicago.org

Signature dishes are being provided by: Alex Cheswick, owner and chef of May Street Market, Allie Levitt, owner and chef of Mado, Cleetus Friedman, owner and chef of City Provisions, and Hugh Amanom, head chef of The Chopping Block. John Kinder, lead mixologist for Death's Door Spirits will be creating signature cocktails.

Additionally, organic, locally brewed beers from Two Brothers,  Half Acre, Bell’s, and Metropolitan; organic and locally distilled spirits from Death’s Door and North Shore Distillery, and organic and sustainably produced wines will be served.

The event is sponsored by Green Grocer Chicago and friends!

The Academy for Global Citizenship is a unique Chicago Public Contract School, located on the Southwest side of Chicago. Our mission is to empower all students to positively impact the community and world beyond. In pursuit of this mission, AGC is committed to:

• serving the whole child
• modeling academic excellence
• developing inquirers
• cultivating international awareness
• fostering environmental stewardship
• facilitating collaboration within the community

Rigorous academic expectations lie at the heart of achieving our mission. As an International Baccalaureate candidate school, AGC employs an inquiry-based philosophy that challenges each learner to construct personal meaning from concept-driven units of study. Moreover, AGC’s innovative curriculum prepares students to be environmentally and internationally minded by examining how their choices impact their community and the world.

An AGC education extends beyond a solid academic foundation. Organic, nutritionally balanced meals, daily yoga, gardening, wellness instruction and ecologically sustainable practices throughout the school encourage learners to develop healthy and sustainable lifestyles for themselves. Ultimately, the Academy for Global Citizenship engages the whole child in an enriching educational community focused on fostering academic excellence, international awareness and environmental stewardship.

Their larger goal is to inspire the way society educates the lifeblood of our future by fostering systemic change. Their children will be the environmental, social, and political stewards of tomorrow. Let's equip them with the advantages and opportunities afforded by unsurpassed education and the dream of potential.

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