AAPI Food & Wine: East Meets West Tastemaker Tour 🍽️🍷 @ NARO [PREPAID]

Since Meetup fees are waived, BUY YOUR OWN TIX HERE. Come and go as you please as no attendance will be taken.

We are heading to Rock Center! We Loved Boro Brine! Going back soon! Don't forget to sign up for the Redux 2/26! We also Loved Naro & Hand Hospitality! 👋. Save on the flight to/from Portland! ✈️ This event offers the public a rare, direct connection with the AAPI voices driving American wine forward. Walk-around tasting experience through Naro at Rockefeller Center that unites the most exciting AAPI culinary and wine talent from both coasts. The East Meets West Tastemaker Tour brings celebrated west coast chefs from Portland to New York - including Han Oak, Langbaan, JinJu Patisserie with Naro and Boro Brine - alongside a lineup of acclaimed AAPI winemakers and heritage-driven producers from the Willamette Valley.

Guests will experience an immersive tasting experience hosted by Naro led by the AAPI winemakers and sommeliers shaping the next era of American wine. Designed as a guided, interactive walk-through, each station brings together a winemaker and a sommelier, inviting attendees into deeper conversations about terroir, technique, culture, and the Asian American experience in wine. Guests will move at their own pace using conversational prompts to spark meaningful exchanges with each tastemaker. More than a tasting, this is an intentional exchange with the winemakers, sommeliers, and culinary artists redefining the future of food and wine. Guests are invited to explore every station at their own pace, engaging with winemakers, sommeliers, and chefs across the event.

MICHELIN PLATE 🍽️ (NARO)

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WORLD'S 50 BEST DISCOVERY 🌎 (NARO)
STARCHEFS RISING STAR PASTRY CHEF (CELIA LEE)

Portland’s Langbaan wins big at 2024 James Beard Awards

Cost: $153 (ALL IN)

Menu: (TBD)
CHEFS
Kyurim “Q” Lee and Jin Caldwell
JinJu Patisserie (Portland, OR)

Peter Cho
Han Oak (Portland, OR)

Earl Ninsom
Maya Okada Erickson
Kitsanaruk Ketkuaviriyanont
Langbaan (Portland, OR)

Mark Nobello
Boro Brine (Brooklyn, NY)

Yoonsoo Park
Nelson Diaz
Luke Deardurff
Naro (New York, NY)

WINE
Across all sessions, attendees will meet producers from Alexana Winery, CHO Wines, Evening Land Vineyards, Hundred Suns, alongside leading AAPI sommeliers Anna-Christina Cabrales (Tasting Director, Wine Enthusiast), Kyungmoon Kim MS (Court of Master Sommeliers), Jhonel Faelnar (Beverage Director, Atomix), and more.

*We are unable to accommodate any dietary restrictions

~A La Cuisine