Two chefs who have competed on a Gordon Ramsay television show \u2014 one of them Scranton\u2019s Chef Von \u2014 are cooking up next-level fundraising dinners for the Lackawanna Historical Society next week.<\/p>\n
There will be two seatings each night on Thursday and Friday, March 19-20. The $145, five-course meal will be served at the Scranton Club.<\/p>\n
Chef Von, whose full name is Ryan Von Smith, owns Chef Von & Mom on Linden Street. He recruited his friend Alexandra Donnadio to join him for the fundraiser. Donnadio goes by Chef Zandge. Both appeared on \u201cNext Level Chef\u201d on the Fox network.<\/p>\n
They are going beyond the burgers and other comfort food served at Chef Von & Mom and the barbecue Donnadio makes at Iron & Oak Catering in New Jersey. Both have other specialties and compete widely.<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of fundraisers involve food,\u201d said Historical Society Executive Director Mary Ann Moran-Savakinus. \u201cBut I think that the idea of having a menu that these two people created specifically for our event, as a way to show off their culinary skills, and then at the same time support a local history organization, makes it a little unique and certainly I hope a next level for us, because it\u2019s bringing us to new audiences,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
She hopes that the location will be another draw. The Scranton Club, a 131-year-old membership club that occupies the lower level of 404 Washington Ave., is not usually open to the public.<\/p>\n
The menu begins with charcuterie and then a Caesar salad topped with a salmon skin chicharr\u00f3n. Chicharr\u00f3n is a crispy fried dish usually made with pork, often pork skin.<\/p>\n
The other courses are a shrimp and pasta dish, braised short ribs and tres leches cake.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis city has lots of history and I love what they are doing up there,\u201d at the Historical Society, Smith said. \u201cWhatever I can do to help, to raise money, is a good thing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Reservations are required. The reservation link is lackawannahistoricalsociety.ticketspice.com\/pop-up-with-next-level-chefs<\/a>.<\/p>\n Smith and Donnadio are planning more joint projects around the country, he said.<\/p>\n Smith is also planning to create a line of tableware products.<\/p>\n If you go<\/p>\n What: Pop Up with \u201cNext Level\u201d Chefs to benefit the Lackawanna Historical Society, a five-course meal by \u201cNext Level Chef\u201d contestants.<\/p>\n When: Thursday, March 19, and Friday, March 20, with seatings at 5:30 and 8 p.m. both evenings.<\/p>\n Where: The Scranton Club, 404 N. Washington Ave., Scranton.<\/p>\n Details: The five-course dinner is $145. For information and the reservation link: lackawannahistoricalsociety.ticketspice.com\/pop-up-with-next-level-chefs<\/a>. The Historical Society website is lackawannahistory.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two chefs who have competed on a Gordon Ramsay television show \u2014 one of them Scranton\u2019s Chef Von…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[201,182,28,178,180,179,289,181],"class_list":["post-136696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-things-to-do","tag-top-stories-stt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}