Saturday Gala Dinner

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The International Food and Wine Experience of Charlottesville (IFWEOC) is pleased to announce that the Gala Dinner will feature Chef Todd Jurich and include entertainment by the Unexpected Boys. The Gala Dinner is to be held the evening of January 24th, 2009 at the Omni Charlottesville Hotel and is sponsored by the Charlottesville Daily Progress.

Twenty seven years of cooking in the Tidewater, Virginia area has culminated in the award-winning Todd Jurich's Bistro in downtown Norfolk, Virginia. Mostly a self-made chef, Todd Jurich has been cooking professionally since 1976. He attended The Lausanne School of Cooking in Lausanne, Switzerland and The Thai Cooking School at The Oriental Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand.

Todd was cooking in his own venue, “The Iron Gate House” in Virginia Beach by 1983, when he won his first of now twenty local Portfolio “Golden Fork” Awards. Todd's previous award-winning restaurants also include “Crawdaddy's,” “The Coyote Café” and “Menus”, all in Virginia Beach. [view complete bio]

The Unexpected Boys, presented by Bella Notte Entertainment, a quartet taken only from the world of Broadway, performs a musical tribute to Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons. Unexpected Boys was recently featured as the hottest new idea for corporate entertainment at The Special Event Show in Atlanta, and was named the Best Social Event of the Year at the ISES Gala awards. They have opened for Diana Ross, Dionne Warwick, and Chubby Checker and are featured in the finale of Housewives of New York on Bravo TV. Don’t miss these four handsome Jersey wise guys harmonizing your favorite tunes such as Sherry, Walk Like a Man, Big Girls Don’t Cry, and more.

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