Orlando – For the fifth year straight, Orlando’s Four Seasons hotel will host Friends of James Beard, a mutli-course dinner. You’ll try exotica like rabbit porchetta with fennel mostarda, and – you’ve gotta love the name – Pheasant in a Pear Tree, which is seared pheasant with roasted pear gremolata.

Here’s the full menu:

Reception Stations
- Oyster shooters with green tea, sake and matcha

- Seafood display with a selection of oysters and cherrystone clams, Champagne-poached shrimp, king crab legs and snow crab claws

- House-cured salmon

- Smoked swordfish

- Ahi tuna

- Wagyu crudo

First Course Rabbit porchetta - prosciutto, fennel mostarda, rabbit liver bruschetta, truffle white beans, rabbit confit

Second Course Globe artichoke goat cheese agnolotti - sunchoke, matsutake, piquillo, potato, cerignola olives, truffle

Third Course Scallop and octopus in brodetto - sea scallops, octopus, Barbera wine brodetto, baby artichokes, polenta

Fourth Course "Pheasant in a Pear Tree" - sear rear breast and leg zampone, triple cooked salsify, game bird gastrique, vintage fruit cake, raw and roasted pear gremolata

Fifth Course Boeuf carottes - Creekstone prime beef tenderloin, cardamom-ginger carrots, gratin dauphinois, star anise jus

Sixth Course: Dessert "L’Asiatique" - yuzu white chocolate mousse, mango coulis, black sesame crunch

Your hosts will be the resort’s Executive Chef Fabrizio Schenardi; Capa Restaurant Chef Gabriel Massip; Executive Pastry Chef Rabii Saber, 2019 James Beard Award semi-finalist in the Outstanding Pastry Chef category; Executive Sous Chef Ryan Schelling, and non-Four Seasons Orlando culinarians Executive Chef Kevin Fonzo, La Tavola, James Beard Award semifinalist in Best Chefs in America category; Executive Chef/Owner Jeannie Pierola, Edison: Food + Drink Lab, four-time James Beard Award semifinalist; and Executive Chef Jonathon Sawyer, The Greenhouse Tavern, 2015 James Beard Award for Best Chef, Great Lakes.

The event will be held in the resort’s Ravello restaurant. $250. Click here for details, and here to buy tickets.