Tuesday, June 1, 6:30 pm reception, 7:00 pm
Members $125, guests $150

Event Location:
Dream Dance
1721 West Canal St.
Milwaukee, WI

For reservations or more information, please call 414.847.7883.

A native of Chicago, Jason Gorman got his kitchen start at home, helping his mother make the specialties of her Italian family. When he decided to turn professional, he headed to Atlanta to apprentice under Russian chef Arkady Miretsky at La Strada. Two years later Kevin Rathbun signed him up to help with the opening of the Southwest-inflected NAVA. A stint at The Grape, a wine bistro in Dallas, followed. Soon Gorman was appearing on TV and in magazines and newspapers, including The Dallas Morning News, which gave him a four-star review.

But Gorman really came into his own when Stephan Pyles recruited him to be executive chef at AquaKnox. Critics couldn’t get enough of his seafood, which he prepared using ingredients and techniques from around the world. The City Café was next, and there, according to the Fort Worth Star Telegram, Gorman’s food was “good enough to make a grown woman cry.” (Please try to restrain yourself, though, when you’re attending this very special Centennial Dinner.) Despite The Dallas Morning News naming Gorman “Prince of the City,” he left his kingdom to direct Dream Dance at the Potawatomi Bingo and Casino in Milwaukee. Now he is making the taste buds of diners dream and dance with such dishes as foie gras with vanilla-scented duck jus, agnolotti with potatoes and Stilton, lobster chowder, and locally raised venison.

The original menu, designed by management consultants Joe and Paul Bartolotta and executed by another chef, earned Dream Dance a four-star review from Dennis R. Getto in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Getto praised the restaurant for “blend[ing] Native American and European cultures subtly yet beautifully” and called it “Milwaukee’s best new restaurant.” Since early spring, Gorman has been in charge, and he is cooking with confidence and style. Indeed, he “is taking Dream Dance to new, even higher levels of culinary excellence,” Dream Dance food and beverage director Michael Tsuchihashi told Indian Gaming. “We’re already seeing the results of his expertise and enthusiasm in the kitchen, and he’s drawing raves in the dining room.”