The five-course ‘Winter Wine Dinner’ will be hosted by Metro Bis chef Christopher Prosperi.

Submitted

Metro Bis will host a pop-up restaurant at the Noah Webster House & West Hartford Historical Society, featuring five courses of food, each paired with a wine specifically chosen to enhance the culinary experience.

The Winter Wine Dinner will be held on Thursday, Feb. 22, 2018, at 6:30 p.m. All proceeds from this dinner will benefit theNoah Webster House & West Hartford Historical Society.

Prepare your taste buds! Chef Christopher Prosperi ­­­is mindfully crafting each delicious course with a special element that Noah Webster himself would be familiar with. Taste your way through the evening starting with smoked salmon with beet salad and dill crème fraiche, rigatoni with roasted winter vegetables for the second course, chicken coq au vin (third course), followed by a fourth course of braised beef brisket with roasted pumpkin, and finally lemon posset with berry sauce for dessert. Each course will be paired with a complementing wine.

“[The year] 2018 is a special year for Noah Webster,” museum Executive Director Jennifer DiCola Matos noted. “It’s Noah’s 260^th birthday, and also the 175^th anniversary of his death.” To honor the occasion, the museum invited celebrated Chef Prosperi to prepare a dinner at Noah’s house.

The museum was drawn to Metros Bis because of Chef Prosperi’s reputation for excellence as an American chef. “Noah Webster was a fastidious man,” said Matos. “Who better to create a meal at his house than Chef Prosperi?”

The menu Chef Prosperi has created utilizes classic dishes on Metro Bis’ menu with some traditional New England foods. Beets, winter vegetables, coq au vin, braised beef, roasted pumpkin, berry sauce – these are all foods Noah Webster would have encountered living in Connecticut from 1758-1843.

Prosperi is chef/owner of Metro Bis restaurant in Simsbury, CT, a Hartford Courant recipe columnist, an international cooking teacher from Mexico to Italy, a weekly chef on NBC Connecticut, television host of “New England Cuisine,” and a weekly senior contributor on “The Faith Middleton Food Schmooze” on WNPR. The New York Times declares “…Prosperi is a technical master, an original American chef whose restaurant is worth traveling for” and the Zagat Survey has ranked Metro Bis in the top five in the state for American food.

Tickets are $100, and the price includes all food and drink during the evening. Tickets are on sale at noahwebster.yapsody.com. Seating is extremely limited for this one-night-only event. You must be 21 years or older to participate in the event. A valid ID will be required.

The Noah Webster House & West Hartford Historical Society is a cultural destination where citizens can learn to understand and appreciate the past. The museum preserves the birthplace of Noah Webster, the founding father, educator, author, and lexicographer who taught generations of Americans what it means to be American. This National Historic Landmark is also a repository for the history of West Hartford, the community that molded Noah Webster’s future and is still thriving over 250 years later. The historic house and exhibit spaces are open daily 1 until 4 p.m. For information on the museum’s extensive school and public programs, please visit www.noahwebsterhouse.org or call (860) 521-5362.

Like what you see here? Click here to subscribe to We-Ha’s newsletter so you’ll always be in the know about what’s happening in West Hartford!