Savor Event Brings High-Profile Celebrity Chefs to Frisco, Texas | Dallas Observer
The four-day event will be hosted at the Omin PGA Frisco. Courtesy of Savor.
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How bougie is too bougie? The answer might be unquantifiable, but we might get closer to it than ever before at the Savor festival in Frisco this May.
Hosted at the Omni PGA Frisco Resort & Spa, the event will bring together an impeccable roster of chefs, from celebrity to locally legendary. Curated by James Beard nominee Beau MacMillan, 11 of the event’s 17 featured chefs are from North Texas, including Knife’s John Tesar, Dean Fearing of Fearing’s Restaurant, Stephen Rogers from Gemma and Omni PGA Frisco’s own chef Leen Nunn.
Savor will take place from May 1-4, with a unique dining experience planned for each day. Tickets for each day of the festival are sold individually and start at just under $200. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the North Texas Food Bank.
Omni’s Nunn is the former winner of Chopped: Sweets and will provide the final dessert course during the first night of Savor’s festivities on Thursday, May 1. Billed as the “Masters of Taste Dinner,” 100 diners will be served four courses from the event’s roster of chefs, including three from North Texas. Chef Joe Riojas of Trick Rider (also at the Omni in Frisco) will provide the appetizers, followed by a second course from a collaboration between two chefs from Dallas’ own Crown Block, Kim Canteenwalla and James Beard nominee Elizabeth Blau. The entree course comes from fellow James Beard nominee Antonia Lofaso, who is with Houstonian D. Vincent Williams and will perform an unplugged set during the dinner. Tickets to the event are a whopping $550 per person, sold in pairs.
As if Thursday wasn’t grand enough, night two of Savor on Friday, May 2, promises a party with complimentary cocktails and open-flame cooking stations by chefs and mixologists from Las Vegas, Chicago and Manhattan. It's named “Fork & Fire Grand Tasting,” and tickets are $295 per person.
On Saturday, May 3, a celebrity golf tournament will tee off, featuring Michael Strahan, Anthony Anderson and former Dallas Cowboy Jim Jeffcoat, among others. The Omni PGA Frisco is located next to the PGA of America headquarters and has two 18-hole championship golf courses on-site.
That evening, the “Best of Texas Grand Tasting” will bring together chefs John Tesar, Dean Fearing, Rich Vana and the return of Joe Riojas and Leen Nunn for a uniquely Texan tasting menu. Country trio Midland will perform, and tickets are $395 per person.
Savor concludes Sunday afternoon with a Tex-Mex brunch from Aarón Sánchez and live mariachi performances. This event is the cheapest of the festival, at $195 per person.