Catch NYC's own Chef Maneet Chauhan on Iron Chef, while she serves up her Iron Chef meal for you at
Vermilion. Image: Food Network
NEW YORK HAS more than its fair share of Iron Chef competitors ('cuz we rock). New to the roster is Vermilion Executive Chef Maneet Chauhan. In conjunction with the April 8 air date on Food Network, Chef Chauhan will offer up a special Secret Ingredient Dinnner (and cocktail) to diners.
Secret Ingredient Dinner will feature the same five-course, Indian/Latin fusion meal Chauhan and her team serves up on the Iron Chef episode against Iron Chef Morimoto at the Kitchen Stadium, so you'll get to see, first hand, if the judges are right in their assessments. Diner's also get to see the secret ingredient during an interactive demonstration of one of the courses (let's hope that week's ingredient is not squid eyeballs!).
To launch the evening, Vermilion owner Rohini Dey will offer up a toast to Chef Chauhan (who was also recently named one of the Culinary Institute of America's "Best Chef's in the World"). Again, it's no ordinary toast, instead, diners will raise their glasses with an "herb and spice" Secret Ingredient-inspired cocktail. The first guest to correctly guess the drink's "mystery muse" will be rewarded with an off-menu dinner for two at Vermilion Chicago or New York. All correct guessers will receive a certificate for half off their next meal at Vermiion.
Vermilion's Secret Ingredient Dinner will happen April 8, from 7p to 9:30p. $65 per person includes the signature cocktail, five-course dinner, cooking demonstration and a viewing of the "Iron Chef" (based on current schedule information). A five-course alternative vegetarian menu is also available for the event. Visit TheVermilionRestaurant.com for more information, or call 212.871.6600 for reservations.
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Yes - New York definitely "rocks" but Chef Chauhan is from Chicago where there's been a Vermillion since at least 2004.
Good point, Mark :-).
Chef Chauhan works both the NYC and Chicago venues (and she graduated from NY's CIA) so we'll still claim it LOL
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