Author: danstocke

Restaurant 301 is proud to announce our newly titled Sous Chef, Shawn Carey

Shawn comes with experience, talent and wisdom beyond his age, taking the title of Sous Chef just a week before his 21^st birthday. Shawn’s first taste of cooking education began in 8^th grade at Duluth Central High School’s Secondary Technical Campus with his first mentor, Glenn D’Amour. D’Amour, Culinary Arts Instructor and Executive Chef CEC, taught a series of classes offered at Central that nurtured Shawn’s culinary interests. Six different classes with both back of the house and front of the house focused courses included: Intro to Foods, World Cooking, Artistry of Pastry, Line Cooking, Deli, and Deli Management.  Shawn took every class offered, and even took some twice. The class participated in ‘Top Chef’ inspired quick-fire challenges, in-class contests, and instructional activities. In 9^th grade Shawn attended the coveted Chicago food show, in 10^th grade he toured culinary colleges, in 11^th grade was a guest on radio talk shows, and showcased his talents at endless competitions, including a DSSO event at the Cirrus hanger, all before graduating high school.

Beginning in 2011, under the supervision of Executive Chef Kevin Ilenda, Shawn arrived at Restaurant 301 eager to learn and broaden his talents, and that he has. Chef Kevin’s locally sourced, seasonal, and health inspired menu has given Shawn just the right tools to work with to soar to the next level in the kitchen. Shawn’s philosophy is to create a quality dish so the guest will leave happy, he says “not good, I want food to be great!”   

Shawn has a cool, calm and collective demeanor in the kitchen which is a breath of fresh air in an industry that is sweat and hustle. Shawn’s dishes are clean but rebellious with bold flavors showing a well thought out style to cooking. Shawn has a secret passion for Asian cuisine that we have yet to tap into.

The hotel and restaurant industries play an important role as a mainstay of the economy, a contributor to worthy causes, and an active booster of our guests’ well-being. By partaking in events such as Death by Chocolate, the Chef’s Brunch, and live cooking demo’s with troubled youth at Woodland Hills, Shawn has given back to our community. When asked what his first efforts will be as Sous Chef Shawn stated “the team is important, be the teacher and lead the training” and we are happy to have him do so.  

One Wednesday a month we will give you a chance for a special night out with a pairing of a great film and a thematically linked dinner, all for $20 a person. First up will be the Steve Martin classic “The Jerk” on Nov 20. Dinner is at 7:30 with the film to follow at... Read more »

Set in the near-future UK, Ronan plays Daisy, an American teenager sent to stay with relatives in the English countryside. Initially withdrawn and alienated, she begins to warm up to her charming surroundings, and strikes up a romance with the handsome Edmund (George MacKay). But on the fringes of their idyllic summer days are tense... Read more »

The feature-length documentary BIRTH STORY: INA MAY GASKIN & THE FARM MIDWIVES tells the story of counterculture heroine Ina May Gaskin and her spirited friends, who began delivering each other’s babies in 1970, on a caravan of hippie school buses, headed to a patch of rural Tennessee land. With Ina May as their leader, the women taught... Read more »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4RS1eyGBAU From punk rock mosh pits and sold-out stadiums to the Great White Way, this electrifying documentary follows Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong as he works with Broadway producers to turn his mega-hit album, “American Idiot,” into a staged Broadway musical. The film goes behind the scenes to reveal the creative choices and challenges made... Read more »

The music-driven feature film combines a bold narrative and spectacular live-performance footage of one of the most popular and influential rock bands in history to produce a bracing, raw and visceral cinematic experience. Emerging young star Dane DeHaan (The Place Beyond the Pines, Kill Your Darlings, The Amazing Spider-Man 2) portrays Trip, a young roadie sent... Read more »

In this unforgettable assault on reality–restored and presented uncut theatrically for the first time ever in the U.S.–legendary Hollywood director/actor John Huston (The Maltese Falcon; Treasure Of The Sierra Madre) stars as an intergalactic warrior who joins a cosmic Christ figure in battle against a demonic 8-year-old girl, and her pet hawk, while the fate of the universe... Read more »

Revisit the classic Halloween special on the big screen.  $5 tickets also include Halloween candy and apple cider.  The film shows at 7:00.

  Calvin & Hobbes dominated the Sunday comics in thousands of newspapers for over 10 years, having a profound effect on millions of readers across the globe.  When the strip’s creator, Bill Watterson, retired the strip on New Year’s Eve in 1995, devoted readers everywhere felt the void left by the departure of Calvin, Hobbes,... Read more »

Revisit the classic special on the big screen.  $5 Ticket includes a slice of pumpkin pie.  Starts at 4:30.

A woman is faced with an ethical paradox if she wants to repair her failing marriage in this drama from director Andrew Dosunmu. Adenike (Danai Gurira) is a Yoruba woman who has left West Africa for Brooklyn, and also just married a fellow emigrant, restaurateur Ayodele (Isaach de Bankolé). Ayodele is eager to have children, and... Read more »

Now playing – All The Boys Love Mandy Lane **From the director of Warm Bodies and 50/50** Starring Amber Heard and Anson Mount, ALL THE BOYS LOVE MANDY LANE is about a group of high-schoolers who invite Mandy Lane, “a good girl” who becomes the object of everyone’s affection after returning from summer break, to... Read more »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CI4EjV_x_PQ One of the world’s foremost authorities on structural security agrees to take on one last job: breaking out of an ultra-secret, high-tech facility called “The Tomb.” Deceived and wrongly imprisoned, Ray Breslin (Sylvester Stallone) must recruit fellow inmate Emil Rottmayer (Arnold Schwarzenegger) to help devise a daring, nearly impossible plan to escape from the... Read more »