What: Dinner With Chef Bill Fuller

When: May 11, 2006

Time: 6:30 pm

Where: Casbah, Shadyside

Cost: Fixed price is $50 per person, optional accompanying wines are $25.

Reservations: Seating is limited, reservations are required. Call 412 661-5656.


The Facts: There’s one thing Bill enjoys almost as much as a great meal: conversations about his favorite foods. For one evening in May, he gets to do both as he joins guests to enjoy a special menu in Casbah’s intimate lower dining room.

The Stats: In his decade with big Burrito, Bill has worked in every kitchen, stirred every pot and tasted every dish. Many times. That’s why the food at Casbah, Mad Mex, Soba, Umi and Eleven is so good. Before his gig as big B’s Corporate Chef, Bill earned a Masters’s in Chemistry at UCBerkeley and wandered the states.

The Menu:

Antipasto for the Table: Parma meats, Uplands Farms Pleasant Ridge Reserve cheese

Marinated roasted peppers and fennel.

Sauteed softshell crab, grilled asparagus, lemon-Parmesan Reggiano sauce

Serrano ham-wrapped Alaskan halibut, white beans and chanterelles in spring garlic broth

Grilled ribeye roast, wild-foraged morels, new potato and ramp saute

Creme brulee, strawberry-rhubarb jam, pine-nut crisp