Chef For The Day is back!

CHEF-FOR-THE-DAY

What's it like to work in a restaurant kitchen? That question can be answered with Sotto Sopra Restaurant's Chef-for-the-Day Program under the tutelage of Executive Chef Riccardo Bosio.

If Executive Chef Riccardo Bosio of Sotto Sopra has been asked once, he has been asked a hundred times about life in a restaurant kitchen by clientele, many of whom are talented home cooks. Proof of this fascination can be found in the success of television's reality kitchen programming: Top Chef, Hell's Kitchen and The Food Network’s Chopped.

Chef Bosio has brought back his own chef reality program at Sotto Sopra Restaurant with Chef-for-the-Day allowing a patron to come work in the restaurant kitchen for a full day. Chef-for-the-Day starts early, is expected to be on their feet all day, maneuver narrow stairwells, work through evening service and will wrap their day in the kitchen with dinner      

Prior to coming into Sotto Sopra's kitchen, Chef Bosio assesses the Chef-for-the-Day's skill level and also offers up an additional challenge of creating a menu promoting them as the Chef-for-the-Day at the restaurant.  

Previous Chefs-for-the-Day have invited friends and family in that evening to partake of the multi-course pre-fix menu that they have prepared.  Sotto Sopra help promote you as Chef-for-the-Day on the blog and in their e-newsletter. Cost for this once in a lifetime experience is $100 – available for direct purchase or as a gift certificate for Chef-for-the-Day.

The Details

WHO:  Contact Executive Chef Riccardo Bosio at 410 625 0534 to discuss your cooking skills and plan a menu.  E mail: rbosio9 @ aol.com

WHAT:  A day and evening working as a chef in Sotto Sopra’s kitchen

WHERE:  Sotto Sopra Restaurant, 405 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD  21201

                                                            410 625 0534

WHEN:  You and Chef Bosio will come up with a date that is mutually agreeable for both of you.

Chef-for-the-Day participants are required to sign a liability release form before working in the kitchen.

Sotto Sopra’s Gingerbread Decorating Classes for Children

Sotto Sopra’s Gingerbread House Decorating Classes for Children

Creating Happy Memories

Bring your child to Sotto Sopra Restaurant for Pastry Chef Mallory Staley’s gingerbread house decorating classes being held Sundays, December 8^th and December 22^nd from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.at 405 N. Charles Street. All the children need to bring is a smile and an adult chaperone. The children can leave their Legos, Lincoln Logs, and Barbie’s Malibu Mansion behind because they will be decorating their own gingerbread house that well can be the centerpiece on their family’s dining room table or mantle piece.

Sotto Sopra’s Gingerbread House Decorating Class is $60 which includes one child and their adult chaperone, the class, the gingerbread house to take home, light refreshments, and most important –unforgettable memories. For more details on creating this special time for your child, grandchild, niece or nephew contact Chef Mallory Staley at 917.945.5634 or email at mallorystaley@yahoo.com

 

About Chef Mallory Staley

Pastry Chef Mallory Staley is a graduate from the prestigious French Culinary Institute in New York City. The native Marylander remained in the Big Apple for eight years after graduation.  She has prepared desserts twice at the James Beard House in New York once while she was the executive pastry chef at the Oak Room at the Plaza Hotel and the 2^nd time, most recently, as the Executive Pastry Chef at Marc Forgione’s American Cut Restaurant in Atlantic City. Along with preparing delicious desserts for Sotto Sopra Restaurant, she is creating holiday cookies and cakes for their clientele to take home.  Chef Mallory’s repertoire doesn’t end there, after her eight month tenure at the ground breaking vegan bakery, Babycakes, she has the skill set to create delectable vegan and gluten-free desserts. 

Sotto Sopra Restaurant – 405 N. Charles Street – Baltimore MD 21201  www.sottosoprainc.com

Cooking Class - Sunday, March 20th

Cooking Class 

demonstration

Sunday March 20^th  - 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Cyrus Keefer

Sotto Sopra’s Chef du Cuisine/Research Chef

Chef Cyrus Keefer

You are cordially invited to attend the first of our cooking classes for 2011 at Sotto Sopra. Join us for this special demonstration class as our Chef du Cuisine, Cyrus Keefer teaches you a selection of dishes from this month’s Opera Night menu. At the end of the class sit down and enjoy the afternoon’s endeavors with a bit of wine.

Sotto Sopra Restaurant is pleased to introduce our Chef du Cuisine/Research Chef – Cyrus Keefer. As our Chef du Cuisine, he is using the latest concepts, techniques and trends from around the world to heighten your dining experience at Sotto Sopra.

Harrisburg bred Chef Keefer attended the Philadelphia Restaurant School, worked the finer restaurants at the Delaware shore – Dish, Eden, Nage, Redfin and Espuma as well as receiving 3.5 stars from Elizabeth Large for Brasserie 10 in downtown Baltimore.  Along with our Executive Chef/Owner, Riccardo Bosio, Sotto Sopra is pleased to have this unique talent guiding our Italian cuisine. 

 Cooking Class Agenda

·         White Aspargus Soup
·         Waloo Crudo (White Tuna)
·         Tuna with Tuna Raviolo and Olivata Sauce
·         Sharing cooking professional’s secrets
·         Tips and tricks to making show stopping meals at home
 

 $65 per student

Guaranteed Reservations Required

 Limited class size – 10 students 

Call Dara Bunjon at 410 486 0339 or e-mail Dara at daracooks at gmail dot com

Cooking Class, Sunday, December 12th

COOKING CLASS

Chef Christian DeLutis

Sunday, December 12th at 11 a.m.

Chef Christian DeLutis invites you to join him for a cooking class on Sunday, December 12th starting at 11 a.m. in Sotto Sopra's kitchen. You will learn how to fix a selection of assorted menu items from that evening's Opera Night Menu. The class is an optional hands on. After the class you will all sit down and enjoy the fruits of your labor, have some wine and get to know your classmates.

Holiday Opera Night Menu

Celery Root Bisque

 with smoked pork belly meatballs, apple butter croustade

Salad of Escarole, Winter Radishes, Pecorino

 and hazelnut dressing

Pumpkin and Amaretti Sacchetti 

 with broken sausage and cream sauce

Intermezzo~ Frozen Strega

Sea Bass with Chestnut Polenta, Citrus Confit

and fennel pollen

Fig and Honey Torta

 with red wine gelato and walnut brittle

Cost per person: 65.00

Class reservations: Contact Riccardo Bosio at 443-629-6272 or email him at rbosio9@aol.com

Gourmet Holiday Cooking Class - Sunday November 21st

COOKING CLASS

Chef Christian DeLutis

Gourmet Holiday Menu

Sunday, November 21^st at 11 a.m.

Perk up you holiday table and celebrations with a festive, gourmet menu.  Award-winning Chef DeLutis will be teaching an optional hands-on cooking class at Sotto Sopra Restaurant on Sunday, November 21^st starting at 11 a.m. 

After the class you will all sit down and enjoy the fruits of your labor,

have some wine and get to know your classmates.

Gourmet Holiday Menu

Traditional lobster bisque, diced lobster, truffle oil

Quail wrapped in bacon with chestnut stuffing, celery root puree, cranberry-preserve

Molasses spice cake, parsnip mousse, apple compote

Cost per person: 65.00

Class reservations: Contact Riccardo Bosio at 443-629-6272 or email him at rbosio9@aol.com

Farmers market cooking class at Sotto Sopra Restaurant

FARMERS MARKET COOKING CLASS
NEW CLASS
Sunday, July 25th
coffee at 8:30 a.m.Chef Christian DeLutis & Students

Since our July 11th class with Chef DeLutis was a sell out we are re-offering the same class Sunday, July 25TH for those we had to turan away. Come join us at Sotto Sopra for a very unique cooking class where we all walk to the market, bring back our goodies and Chef Christian DeLutis will teach you how to work with ingredients he purchased at the market. Meet us at Sotto Sopra starting at 8:30 a.m. for coffee, tea and biscotti and we will leave promptly at 9:00 a.m. to walk to the Farmers Market under the expressway. When we have finished class, all will sit down to enjoy the dishes created by Chef Delutis.

Chef Christian DeLutis has thrilled diners with his culinary creations at Harbor Court Hotel, The Wine Market, Dogwood and at Alizée. We are thrilled to have him at Sotto Sopra Restaurant as our culinary instructor.

Class cost: 65 per person

Class size is limited – call in your reservations early – 410 625 0534
Come dressed in washable and comfortable clothes, where rubber soled shoes.

Time: 8:30 a.m. for coffee, tea and biscotti

Walk to the Farmers Market: 9:00 a.m. promptly

Cooking Class - Sunday, June 13th

Cooking Class
Sunday, June 13th
1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
$65 per person

Sotto Sopra's Executive Chef Bill Crouse will be teaching another great cooking class on Sunday, June 13th. For a real life look at the back of the house, the class is held in the restaurant kitchen. Chef will determine the menu by what is looking good from his suppliers and farmers market.

The class is optional hands-on so wear comfortable clothes and shoes. At the end of the class students will kick back and enjoy the the dishes prepared that day along with a bit of vino. Our past classes have been selling out early so don't hesitate. This makes a wonderful gift item for the foodies in your life.

Reservations are required, please call 410 625 0534 to make your reservations.


no other promotions or discounts are applicable to this event

Cooking Class - Sunday, May 2nd

Cooking Class

Sunday, May 2nd

1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
$65 per person
SOLD OUT
Next Class - Sunday, June 13 - same time

Sotto Sopra's Executive Chef Bill Crouse will be teaching another great cooking class on Sunday, May 2nd. For a real life look at the back of the house, the class is held in the restaurant kitchen. Chef will determine the menu by what is looking good from his suppliers and farmers market.

The class is optional hands-on so wear comfortable clothes and shoes. At the end of the class students will kick back and enjoy the the dishes prepared that day along with a bit of vino. Our past classes have been selling out early so don't hesitate. This makes a wonderful gift item for the foodies in your life.

Reservations are required, please call 410 625 0534 to make your reservations.

no other promotions or discounts are applicable to this event

April 11th Cooking Class

COOKING CLASS
Sunday, April 11, 2010
1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
65 PER PERSON
SOLD OUT

NEXT CLASS - SUNDAY, MAY 2ND

Executive Chef Bill Crouse invites you to join him for his cooking class featuring the foods of spring. The class is optional hands-on and held in the restaurant kitchen. At the end of the class everyone gets to sit down in the dining room and enjoy the dishes prepared with a spot of vino.

Class is usually 3 to 4 recipes. Cost is 65 per person and guaranteed reservations are required.

When making your reservations please call 410 625 0534 and tell them it is for the Cooking Class or e-mail us at ciao@sottosopra.us

Cooking Class Sunday February 7th - Valentine Theme

Cooking Class
Sunday, February 7, 2010
1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Executive Chef Bill Crouse invites you to join him for his "Salute to Valentine's Day" cooking class. The class is optional hands-on and held in the restaurant kitchen. At the end of the class everyone gets to sit down in the dining room and enjoy the dishes prepared with a spot of vino.

Chef promises decadent recipes, I heard him mention lobster and also chocolate. Class is usually 3 to 4 recipes. Cost is 65 per person and guaranteed reservations are required.

When making your reservations please call 410 625 0534 and tell them it is for the Cooking Class or e-mail us at ciao@sottosopra.us

Here is a look at one of our classes.

Cooking Know-How Best Cookbook awards

Earlier this year we hosted cookbook authors Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough as they introduced their new cookbook, Cooking Know-How. It was a sell out crowd. We are thrilled to announce that Cooking Know-How was selected by the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards at the Paris Cookbook Fair as the best cookbook from the United States in 2009 for "easy recipes.". Yesterday, Weinstein and Scarbrough got the news that the book has now been shortlisted with three others for "the best in the world.

Listen to snippets from the original class HERE

For those of you who made it their cooking class at Sotto Sopra hang on to those autographed copies of Cooking Know-How.

Our congratulations and best wishes to the Bruce and Mark! Check out their blog Real Food Has Curves

Holiday Cooking Class - Sunday, November 8th

Sotto Sopra Cooking Class
Holiday Cooking

Sunday, November 8
1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Executive Chef Bill Crouse wants you to be prepared for your holiday gatherings as he takes you through the fine points of holiday dishes, even turkey. The class has optional hands-on opportunities to get in there and learn. After working in the kitchen, students will enjoy sitting down to taste the dishes prepared and have wine.

Class size is limited so make your reservations NOW!

Don't forget our Chef-for-the-Day program where you and chef discuss a four course menu that you will come into the restaurant and prepare.

Gift certificates for Chef-for-the-Day and Cooking Classes are available for gift giving.

Class cost is $65.00 per person ~ Reservations call Monika at 410 625 0534

Cooking Class - Sunday, October 11th

TASTE OF TUSCANY COOKING CLASS

Executive Chef Bill Crouse is feeling inspired by his recent trip to Siena, Italy and will focus his cooking class on Sunday, October 11th on the foods of Tuscany. The class is an optional hands-on and held in the restaurant kitchen. If you have attended the classes you know they are informative, fun, fulfilling and filling. Not only do you learn authentic Tuscan dishes you get to enjoy them with a bit of vino. Class size is limited, sign up now.

Taste of Tuscany Cooking Class

When: Sunday, October 11th - 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Where: Sotto Sopra Restaurant Kitchen
405 N. Charles Street

Cost: $65.00 per person - inclusive


Reservations are required: Call Monika at 410 625 0534

Check out Chef Crouse at the Sunday's Downtown Farmers Market on October 4th around 8:15 a.m as he does a cooking demo along with other prominent chefs from the city for the Toyota Farm-to-Table Tour. Each chef is paired with a local farmer - come see the demo and taste the samples.

Cooking Class - Sunday, September 20th

RESCHEDULED
Executive Chef Bill Crouse has gotten the opportunity to go to Italy and the trip falls on the September 13th date of the cooking class - stay and teach a cooking class or go to Italy, you can't blame him for his choice.

We are going to reschedule the class to
Sunday, September 20th

Cooking Class

Sunday, September 20, 2009

1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

$65 - all inclusive

Canning affords you the taste of summer through out the fall and winter months. The farmers stands and home gardens will be burgeoning with great produce. Executive Chef Bill Crouse learned how to can from his mother so we think it only appropriate that his mother be an instructor also. Take the bounty of the garden and stock your shelves.

Those who have attended previous classes know they are fun, interactive for those who want some hands on experience. You won't go hungry or thirsty. You will enjoy the recipes prepared along with wine.

Guaranteed reservations are required. Cancellations accepted up to 24 hours prior to class. Class size is limited so make your reservations - call Monika at 410.625.0534

We will be holding another cooking class on Sunday, October 4th 1 to 4 p.m.

Cooking Class - Sunday June 7th

Sunday, June 7
Farmers Market Hands-On Cooking Class
7:45 a.m. to 3 p.m.
$70 per person
Limited to 12 students

Join Executive Chef Bill Crouse for a farmers market cooking class. Students will gather at the restaurant at 7:45 a.m. and at 8 a.m. promptly walk down to the Sunday Farmers Market at Saratoga and Pleasant Street. Chef will talk to you about the produce; what to look for in the product you buy, cleaning and proper storage. When finished shopping students will walk back up to Sotto Sopra’s kitchen where this hands-on class will cook a meal with the products bought at the market.

At the end of the class, all will sit down and enjoy the meal and some wine. There is no specific menu; it is what looks good at the market that day.

Students should wear comfortable shoes ( you will be walking to the market and standing in the kitchen), clothing appropriate for a kitchen and will need to sign a release form to work in the kitchen.

Contact Monika Pawlak Bosio at 410 625 0534 for class application and release form or write ciao@sottosopra.us. The cooking class is a guaranteed reservation. Cancellations accepted up to 24 hours prior to the class, anything less than 24 hours or no shows will be billed. We are limiting the class to just 12 students.

No other promotions or discounts are applicable to this class

For those who missed the cooking class

When renown cookbook authors Scarbrough and Weintstein were here at Sotto Sopra for a cooking demonstration, we were sold out. So I just got a note about their demo on air in San Francisco. There is a very funny line...listen for it.

WBAL's story on the Sotto Sopra's cooking class

Robert Lang of WBAL Radio's news team took the cooking class at Sotto Sopra this past weekend featuring Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarborough. Here is his story:

http://wbal.com/apps/news/templates/story.aspx?articleid=26549&zoneid=21

Click and Clack of Cooking

STYLE Magazine Laura Wexler attended the cooking class at Sotto Sopra with Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough. Read her story:

STYLE magazine, Laura Wexler, Charmed Life blog | Click and Clack of Cooking | Baltimore, Maryland

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Dinner with Daniela

Dinner with Daniela
4-Course Rustic Sardinian Dinner
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Open Reservations
$38 per person*

Our lovely lady from Sardinia, Daniela Useli, will be preparing one of her rustic Italian dinners for all to enjoy. Daniela comes to Sotto Sopra just once a month to share the flavors of her Sardinian upbringing. We hope you will join us for this 4 course dinner.

Antipasto
Tortini di Verza con Fonduta
Cabbage cakes served with cheese fondue

Il Primo ~ La Pasta
Lasagne alla Bolognese
Hand-made lasagna will melt in your mouth with the delicate combination of bolognese sauce, bechamel sauce, mozzarella cheese and Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese

Il Secondo ~ Pesce

Spigola alla Vernaccia
Branzini fish fillets cooked to perfection in Vernaccia dry wine, served with a side of stuffed red carrots.

Il Dolce

Sebadas

A true Sardinian dessert! Home made crispy dough filled with fresh pecorino cheese sprinkled with a touch of honey.

$38 per person
(excludes beverages, tax and gratuity)

When making reservations please let us know it is for Dinner with Daniela – Call 410.625.0534

Daniela also teaches a demonstration cooking class monthly here at Sotto Sopra, her upcoming classes are Sunday, April 26th and Sunday May 17th at 1 p.m.

Cooking Know How - Celebrity Authors Cooking Class

Special Celebrity Cooking Class

Sunday, May 3rd

1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

$85

(includes class, meal, wine, 1st edition autographed copy of Cooking Know-How and tax)

Bruce Weinstein & Mark Scarbrough

Celebrity cookbook authors, Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough, are making a trip to Sotto Sopra on Sunday, May 3rd. They will be doing a cooking demonstration class featuring recipes from their just released cookbook, Cooking Know-How ~Be a Better Cook with Hundreds of Easy Techniques, Step-by-Step Photos and Ideas for over 500 Great Meals.

Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough, the creators of the bestselling Ultimate cookbook series, are known for their great recipes. But in their exciting new book, Weinstein and Scarbrough provide more than just recipes: they demonstrate the essential techniques people need to become more confident in the kitchen.

Welcome to a whole new kind of cookbook.

"Knowing how to cook has challenged lots of men. Women, too. What most people learn is a specific recipe: how to make this pasta sauce, or that loaf of bread. What about learning how to cook in general? And not just the 'how' but the 'how come?' That requires a technique book.

"What you'll find in this book is an alphabetical list of sixty-five recipe-driven, technique-centered explications that build out into hundreds of dishes."

Armed with the knowledge of the simple mechanics of a dish, the five or so steps it takes to make it, you can walk into the market, find what's fresh (or on special), bring it home, and have dinner on the table without any worries, any overly romantic pretensions, or any cookbooks piled on the floor: fresh every time--and your way, too."--from the Introduction"The recipes are structured without being fussy and the majority are relatively easy. This is a welcome rarity, imparting a useful, innovative framework as well as the confidence to depart from it."

--Publishers Weekly

Enjoy the class, sample 4 recipes, have wine and go home with a 1st edition autographed copy of the book, tax and gratuity included for just $85 per person. Weinstein and Scarbrough are not only super food savvy they are extremely entertaining...this is a DON'T MISS class.

Learn more about Weinstein and Scarbrough, sample some of their recipes and smile, Real Food Has Curves. Check out there video HERE. Many of you might remember them from Dan Durian's radio program on WBAL.

Guaranteed reservations are required. Cancellation policy: If you cancel your reservation at no later than 24 hours before the class you will not be charged. Any cancellations less than 24 hours will be billed. Students are asked to sign a release form in order to enter the restaurant kitchen.