DETAILS: We love bubbles and we love Champagne! Join Chaval this afternoon as they pour four baller Champagnes for this not-to-be-missed Portland Wine Week brunch. This 4-course pairing menu will feature four incredible expressions of Champagne, each paired with a decadent course. The menu will be French inspired, utilizing local and regional ingredients, caviar, and heritage meats. This is truly an amazing event for a lover of fine bubbles and deliciousness. Tickets will not last long.
Featured Champagnes and Menu TBA:
Seating will be indoors and on the private patio.
COST: $135 plus tax and gratuity
RESERVE: Call 207-772-1110
LINKS: chavalmaine.com
Before Chef Damian Sansonetti was the acclaimed chef de cuisine at the uber-French Bar Boulud in New York, co-owner Damian Sansonetti grew up savoring his mother's and grandmother's cooking. From handmade pasta to grilled fish to learning how to cure meat and make sausages with his grandfather. A career in food was practically his birthright. Graduating from the Pennsylvania Culinary Institute, Sansonetti worked at Nantucket’s Brant Point Grill and Pittsburgh’s Steelhead Grill, moving to New York to open Heartbeat in the W Hotel. Sansonetti met Daniel Boulud while working at Shallots in Midtown and eventually took a position at Boulud’s DB Bistro Moderne. At the time of writing this he is a 2022 James Beard Award Finalist for Best Chef Northeast.
Chef Ilma Lopez has worked in some of the most demanding and rewarding kitchens in the industry, such as DB Bistro, Corton, Tailor, El Bulli, Café Boulud, and Le Bernardin. When she left New York City to the quieter reaches of Maine, Lopez found a new terrain she couldn’t resist. Arriving with a mastery of colors, flavors, textures, and spices—and a seasoned ability to work under pressure—Lopez makes classic dishes her own, with attention to micro-detail and thoughtful twists. For her work, Lopez earned a 2014 StarChefs Coastal New England Rising Star Pastry Chef Award, Has been a multiple-time James Beard top-Chef finalist, and you may have seen her name in the September issue of Bon Appetit Magazine highlighting her incredible talents when naming Portland, Maine as their pick for Restaurant City of The Year.
Pictured: Champagnes poured at Chaval’s Portland Wine Week Fabulous Champagne Lunch in 2021. Stay tuned for what’s being poured at their equally Fabulous Champagne Lunch in 2022.
