James Cooks For Food & Wine's New Chefs Club Restaurant in Aspen

Food & Wine Chef's Club at the St. Regis Aspen Resort/ Photo: St. Regis Aspen Resort

Our chef, James Lewis, is headed to Aspen, Colorado today to cook in the Chefs Club restaurant — a pop-up eatery by Food & Wine at the St. Regis Aspen Resort. The restaurant celebrates the Food & Wine Classic's 30th anniversary by showcasing the talents of Best New Chef, alums who will create inventive American Regional menus influenced by what's in season. The menu and featured chefs will rotate twice a year to honor the seasonality of the dishes. 

James joins chef George Mendes of Aldea in New York, Alex Seidel of Fruition in Denver, and Sue Zemanick of Gautreau's in New Orleans to create the restaurant's first menu.  Check back to see what James cooks up for the Chefs Club, and make sure to book a table if you are in Aspen this summer!

A Year in Pictorial Review

2011 was a wonderful year for us, and 2012 is already showing great things on the horizon that we can't wait to share with you. But before we move on to the future, take a look at some of the images from two big trips Bettola took last year. The first was to New York for the Food & Wine's Best New Chef reception, and in the summer we went to Aspen for the Food & Wine Classic, where we showed the foodie world why the 'Ham does the whole hog best. 

Check out the rest of the pictures on our Flickr page.