You know your way around the kitchen and cook for friends all the time. You daydream about becoming a chef--maybe even opening your own neighborhood restaurant--when watching the Food Network. Now you can make your dreams come true (or at least get a taste of reality) at Canelé's Friends Cook nights.
The Atwater Village restaurant welcomes food-obsessed novice chefs to create a three-course menu for one night only. Anyone can apply (contact chef and co-ower Corina Weibel), as long as you have the passion, creativity and stamina to endure hours on your feet and maybe a few burns. The new "chef" plans the menu with Weibel, preps ingredients with the kitchen crew and even plates the dishes. Schmoozing with friends in the dining room is optional.
Apiarist Amy Seidenwurm, from Backwards Beekeepers, has been tapped for the next Friends Cook night, which takes place tomorrow (Tuesday, June 30). She's using local organic honey in all three courses--in the vinaigrette for the beet and gorgonzola salad, as a glaze for the pork tenderloin, and in the ice cream for the goat cheese-nectarine tart. All for only $30.
Canelé, 3219 Glendale Blvd., Atwater Village; 323-666-7133 or canele-la.com
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