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Chef Michelle Donaldson to cook special dinner at Local Table

By SCOTT CHERRY Restaurant Critic on Aug 1, 2011, at 4:15 PM  Updated on 8/01 at 4:15 PM



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Michelle Donaldson when she was executive chef at Lava.


Chef Michelle Donaldson will be cooking a four-course "Southern Hemisphere" wine dinner at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at Local Table, 4329 S. Peoria Ave.

The dinner will include summer vegetable-filled "meat" pie with tomato cream sauce, shrimp on the barbie with avocado-kiwi salsa, beef kebab and roasted peach melba. Wines include Walnut Block sauvignon blanc, Heartland Stickleback (verdelho, viognier, semillon blend) and Boxhead shiraz, all from Australia.

Cost is $30, plus tax and gratuity. Reservations: 918-794-8013.

Donaldson recently was hired to operate the takeout market side of Local Table. She was trained at Le Cordon Bleu in Las Vegas and apprenticed at Vegas restaurants. She was executive chef at the now-closed Lava in Brookside and has cooked at other upscale Tulsa restaurants, including Polo Grill.
TABLE TALK

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Canebrake resort, located four miles east of Wagoner off Oklahoma 51, has scheduled a crab boil and wine tasting 6-9 p.m. ...

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Chef-proprietor Justin Thompson has scheduled a benefit opening 6-10 p.m. Thursday for his new Tavolo Italian Bistro, 427 ...

Hope Egan to open Tallgrass restaurant in downtown Tulsa

Hope Egan, owner of Hope’s Table catering, said Thursday she plans to open a new restaurant called Tallgrass in downtown ...

CONTACT THE BLOGGER

Scott Cherry

918-581-8463
Email

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