10 Taste Salute!
October 8, 2023
Celebrating the Life, Times, and Cooking of Chef Dean “Deano” Corbett
The Café - Paristown
711 Brent Street
Happy Hour on the Patio
5:30-6 p.m.
Dinner and Celebration
6:15-8:30 p,m,
Master of Ceremonies-Dawne Gee of WAVE 3 TV
$135 Per Person
To Purchase Tickets, visit aproninc.org/10-taste-salute
APRON Inc celebrates 12-years of helping, assisting, and bringing TLC to the Restaurant Community and all those that Make your Dining Experience Top Notch!
APRON, the non-profit that Serves Those Who Serve You, is proud that we get to help the restaurant employees when they are in need. The Ten Taste Salute is one of our largest fundraisers that keeps our mission going strong. We hope to see everyone on Oct 8 for an evening of wonderful “Deano” inspired food & drink, our exciting auction, and friendships- old and new.
We will begin the celebration with a cocktail hour on the Café patio area, followed by a five-course “Taste Menu” prepared with love by some of Louisville’s finest Local chefs. The tastes will be modern and classic versions of Chef Dean’s Favorite Dishes! All dishes will be paired with a signature cocktail from talented mixologists representing a few of your favorite local restaurants. Throughout the dining experience, team Apron, with the assistance of our honorary MC, Dawne Gee, will present an auction, raffle, and guests will hear from some of the “Heroes” we have impacted throughout our twelve years of service.
The 10 Taste Salute featuring 10 Top-Notch Chefs & Friends of Dean Corbett will showcase their LOVE for Dean and his Dishes! The Celebration will not only be a salute to our commitment to the independent restaurant employees of Louisville but a celebration of the 1st person who wrote the 1st check to APRON 12 years ago, our beloved and missed friend, Deano!
APRON Inc is grateful and beyond - The virus and after-effects really put APRON to the test. We received an unprecedented number of applications and have paid out close to $480,000 in grants to more than 727 employees from over 180 restaurants in the past three years! We are immensely proud of the help have given back to our community; and are humbled beyond words at the immense community, corporate, and foundation support we received throughout the past few years.
Featured Chefs
Happy Hour Passed Appetizers – The Café
Chef Paul Sant, Private Chef – Classic
Chef Ellen Gill McCarty, Gill on the Go - Classic
Chef Justin Cruz, Executive Chef Black Rabbit - Modern
Chef Dan Thomas, Corp. Chef, R.L. Schreiber – Classic
Chef Michael Hargrove, River City Supper Club - Modern
Chef Dallas McGarity, Fat Lamb – Classic
Finbar Kinsella, St. Joseph’s Home – Modern
Chef Josh Moore, Volare - Classic
Featured Mixologists
Michael Beckmann – Lou Lou on Market and Lou Lou Food & Drink
Jason Stark - Martini Italian Bistro
Tom Wilburn - Watch Hill Proper
Hannah Arbaugh of MeeshMeesh Mediterranean
Kerry Reesor - Black Rabbit