ROGUE SESSIONS
Chef RJ Cooper will be forced to step away from his brand new restaurant Rogue 24 in January to undergo open-heart surgery. The surgery will correct a genetic heart defect known as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, which could be life-threatening if not treated.
In Cooper’s place, ten of RJ Cooper’s friends, some of the nation’s most exciting chefs, will take over Rogue 24’s kitchen for one week each during “Rogue Sessions.” The one-week-long sessions begin January 10 and run through March 17, 2012.
The chef each week will be announced exclusively on Gilt City. Tickets to each week’s dinners will be sold on the site for $185 per person, with 250 seats available per week (50 per night), and reservations handled by CityEats.com – powered by Food Network. Each sumptuous evening will feature a 24-course dinner featuring twelve of the visiting chef’s dishes and twelve Rogue 24 favorites, with wine and cocktail pairings by celebrity bartender Derek Brown and Beverage Director JP Fetherston.
Chef RJ Cooper will be donating a portion of each ticket to Share Our Strength, an organization devoted to ending childhood hunger in America that the chef has supported for 22 years.
  
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The roster of chefs includes:
José Andrés and Ruben Garcia (Washington, D.C.)
Chef/Owner of ThinkFoodGroup and 2011 James Beard Foundation Outstanding Chef
Tim Byres (SMOKE, Dallas, TX)
Chef/Owner of SMOKE Restaurant in Dallas, featured in Food & Wine Magazine as
having one of the “Ten Best Restaurant Dishes in America” (December 2010)
Jennifer Carroll (Philadelphia, PA)
Chef/Owner of Carroll Couture Cuisine, formerly of 10Arts by Eric Ripert, Le Bernardin,
and season 6 of “Top Chef”
John Currence (Oxford, MS)
Chef/Owner of City Grocery Restaurant Group, 2009 James Beard Foundation award for
Best Chef South, and season 3 of “Top Chef Masters”
Scott Drewno (Washington, D.C.)
Chef of Wolfgang Puck’s The Source and the Restaurant Association of Metropolitan
Washington’s 2010 Chef of the Year
Katsuya Fukushima (Washington, D.C.)
Chef/Owner of the much-anticipated ramen restaurant Daikaya opening in 2012, formerly
of minibar and Café Atlantico
Spike Gjerde (Baltimore, MD)
Chef/Owner of Woodberry Kitchen and one of Baltimore’s preeminent chefs
Nancy Oakes (Boulevard – San Francisco, CA)
Chef/Owner of Boulevard, James Beard Foundation Award–winner for Best Chef
California, and one of San Francisco’s most beloved Chefs
David Posey (Chicago, IL)
Chef of 4-star restaurant Blackbird, formerly of Alinea
Bryan Voltaggio (Frederick, MD)
Chef/Owner of Volt and the newly opened Lunchbox
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