Dine Around Downtown: Cooking at Home Edition

The “Dine Around Downtown: Cooking at Home Edition” series connects audiences with Lower Manhattan chefs to cook up signature recipes and share tips for crafting everything from complex gastronomic delights to go-to comfort foods.

Hosted by James Beard Award-winning chef and New York Times bestselling author Rocco DiSpirito, and launched during the pandemic to support our downtown restaurants, chefs and Rocco each Zoomed in live to teach people at home how to prepare the dishes they were missing. Now, Rocco joins our guest chefs in their restaurant kitchens to interact directly. Like some of your other favorite cooking shows, episodes will drop on YouTube and registrants will be able to view anytime, anywhere.

Click here to request and receive advance notice about pre-registration for upcoming episodes.

And don’t be a stranger! Visit your old favorite haunts and make new discoveries, or check out a place you’ve been meaning to try forever, to enjoy a celebratory meal with friends and family. Our Lower Manhattan restaurant community will be happy to serve you!

UPCOMING EPISODE

Cook Along With SAGA Executive Pastry Chef Emily Hall: Learn to make two of her signature holiday desserts, Sweet Potato Custard Tart + Quince Cruller

Episode Release Date: December 5, 2024

Emily Hall is the executive pastry chef at SAGA. She honed her craft in the highly regarded pastry kitchens at Mento in Boston, Eleven Madison Park in New York and 42 Grams in Chicago; she also served as executive pastry chef at Gunter Seeger Restaurant, which netted her an Eater mention as a “Talent to Watch,” and helmed the pastry kitchen at Musket Room. In 2021, she took on the role of executive pastry sous chef overseeing Crown Shy, SAGA and Overstory. A year later, she was promoted to executive pastry chef.

Join series host chef Rocco DiSpirito and chef Emily, who will show participants how to make two of her signature SAGA holiday desserts, Sweet Potato Custard Tart + Quince Cruller.