Marc Vetri and Georges Perrier delight at pop-up dinner
Guests at Friday’s event were ushered up to Vetri Ristorante’s second floor kitchen where the two award-winning chefs were busy preparing a unique family-style meal.
"Sitting with my friend Georges Perrier this morning having coffee and he says let's cook together sometime. I said...how about tonight! So it's on tonight...Enoteca Perrier!" read an early Friday morning Instagram message from chef Marc Vetri.
36 chairs. Two seating times. $75 per person.
Le Bec-Fin owner and founder Georges Perrier paired up with his Philadelphia chef amigo for a once in a lifetime dining experience – but only for those who were quick enough to make a reservation.
As Philly.com's own Michael Klein observed:
Guests at Friday's event were ushered up to Vetri Ristorante's (1312 Spruce St.) second floor kitchen where the two award-winning chefs were busy preparing a unique family-style meal.
Each attendee was greeted with a glass a sparkling Prosecco, asparagus flan shooters, and cushi oysters with lemon gelato. After provoking everyone's stomach with appetizers, folks were escorted into the adjacent dining area and seated at a long communal table.
Wine was poured into glasses as steaming plates of food flooded in and onto the table while strangers warmed up to each other with light conversation. A guest at the table, South Philly resident Josephine, told me her husband surprised her with the dinner as a birthday gift. "I was on my way home from a trip to Kentucky earlier today and here I am now!"
Perrier and Vetri were kind to explain the preparation of each dish, which included mashed potatoes, homemade bread with sea salt, shrimp salad, polenta, Boeuf Bourguignon, asparagus in Béarnaise, Le Bec-Fin's famous crab cake, and beef Bolognese.
A bit of each chef's culinary background and expertise made for a wonderfully diverse meal.
Marc promised this would not be the last of his collaborative pop-up dinners (dubbed Enoteca at Vetri), so Philadelphia foodies be savy with your social media and swift with your reservations.