Ment'or Young Chef Competition

Daniel Boulud brings the best young chefs from across the country—including Cafe Boulud chef de partie Scott Franqueza and James Haibach of Boston's the Country Club—to this New York cook-off, where the winner will be awarded a stagiaire worth $15,000. In between enjoying food stations and handpicked wines from the Spire Collection, watch as the toques churn out creative plates like butternut-squash macarons, lamb meatballs doused in ancho-chile mole and banana-leaf–wrapped sea bass to impress a judges' panel that features Shaun Hergatt of Juni and Eli Kaimeh of Per Se.