Cook for a Cure will bring us together through the shared experience of cooking. Join us for this virtual event and cook along with St. Louis chef Gerard Craft, Executive Chef and Owner of Niche Food Group.

As a Food & Wine Best New Chef, Food & Wine Innovator of the Year, 2015 James Beard Foundation Award-winning Best Chef: Midwest, and Inc. Magazine Star Entrepreneur, Chef Gerard Craft has been a pioneer for the Midwest dining scene.

A native of Washington, D.C., Chef Craft became addicted to the restaurant life while living in Salt Lake City as a snowboard photographer. Chef Craft went on to cook at Bistro Toujours in Park City, Utah and Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles, California as well as stage at Ryland Inn in Whitehouse Station, New Jersey before making the leap to open a restaurant of his own.

Always a believer in following intuition, Chef Craft settled on a boarded-up building in the Benton Park neighborhood of St. Louis, a city that he had never visited, to open his first restaurant, Niche, at the age of 25 in 2005.

Niche Food Group now includes six restaurants in St. Louis and one in Nashville, Tennessee: creative cocktails at Taste by Niche, French bistro fare at Brasserie by Niche, approachable Italian at Pastaria, fun, seasonal fare with a nod to Italy at Sardella, laid back burgers and brats at brassWELL inside Rockwell Beer Co., and his latest restaurant, Cinder House, a wood-fired, South American-inspired restaurant at the Four Seasons Hotel.