Indianapolis chef Craig Baker took house the highest award at this 12 months’s Style of Class hung on January 17, 2024 on the Indiana Roof Ballroom in Indianapolis. The premier chef’s pageant, hosted by means of Indiana Red meat, is a culinary match designed to encourage leading edge and thrilling techniques to serve red meat.
Each and every 12 months, the Style of Class program brings proficient cooks in combination to compete within the prestigious match created to inspire cooks to make use of red meat extra steadily in ingenious, non-traditional techniques. The development draws over 400 red meat farmers, lawmakers, ag business leaders, and dignitaries to downtown Indianapolis for a night of class and birthday celebration.
Chef Baker’s featured red meat keen in two techniques. The dish used to be a Moo Ping Iberico Red meat Secreto with Soy Forbidden Rice, a Charred Child Beet Salad, Sticky Red meat Stomach, Smoked Rice Krispies and Thai Crimson Curry Espuma. Because the Style of Class winner, Pattern used to be offered with a take a look at for $1,000 from Indiana Red meat.
“Chef Baker is not any stranger to meals competitions,” stated Jeanette Merritt, Director of Communications of Indiana Red meat. “Chef has a really perfect figuring out of learn how to make red meat style scrumptious and design a plate this is interesting to the judges. His dish used to be an impressive instance of well-prepared red meat!”
The 2024 Indiana Style of Class featured one of the crucial state’s best cooks, together with:
- Chef Michael Gomez — Gomez Catering and Occasions, Indianapolis
- Chef Darrelle Soper, private chef
- Chef Chefski Laskowski, private chef
- Chef Jason Crouch, Lodge Carmichael, Indianapolis
- Chef Cole Padgett – Taxman, Fortville
- Chef Craig Greenwell, Earl Enterprises, Indianapolis
- Chef AJ Feeney-Ruiz, Books, Bourbon & Baron Verulam, Indianapolis
- Chef Steven Amore, private chef
- Chef Craig Baker, HAIV Hospitality, Indianapolis
- Chef Cole Padgett, Taxman Brewing, Fortville
- Chef Lance George, Comida, Indianapolis
- Chef Daniel Keiner, The Hulman at Lodge Indy, Indianapolis
- Chef Felicia Grady, Plate it Up Catering, Indianapolis
Different successful cooks from the evening come with:
- Awesome Chef Award (2d position): Steven Amore
- Top class Chef Award (third position): Chefski Laskowski
- Wine Pairing Award: Craig Baker
- Folks’s Selection Award — Favourite Entrée: Michael Gomez
- Folks’s Selection Award — Favourite Show: Daniel Keiner
- Folks’s Selection Award — Favourite Wine: McClure’s Orchard & Vineyard