Celebrity Chef Ja’Nel Witt Brings ‘A Fantastic Journey’ to Black Chef Table
Celebrity chef Ja’Nel Witt is the latest culinary talent to join the popular Black Chef Table series at Kulture restaurant in downtown Houston. Witt will serve as the head chef during a 6-course dining experience on Saturday, March 26, at 7 p.m. at Kulture, located at 701 Avenida De Las Americas.
Witt is best known nationally as the season 11 winner of Gordon Ramsay’s Hell’s Kitchen TV show. She has also shared her skills running kitchens at several well-known Houston hotspots, including previously serving as the executive chef of Sonoma Restaurant & Wine Bar. Specializing in global cuisine, she fuses multi-regional influences with exotic flavors to excite every palate. While respecting classic dishes and cooking comfort foods, she likes to keep things creative and edgy by not sticking to any one cooking style.
Houston-based restauranteur Marcus Davis and Chef Keisha Griggs announce the new line-up of featured chefs for the next round of Kulture: A Black Chef Table dinner experience.
Black Chef Table is a culinary experience spotlighting African/African American chefs and food purveyors identifying as Black Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC). Diners will enjoy a multi-course dinner in the swanky ambience of Kulture. The concept is the brainchild of restaurateur Marcus Davis and Chef Keisha Griggs, who is the curator of Black Chef Table.
Participating chefs highlight the transatlantic food ways from Africa to and through the Caribbean, Asia, Spain, Mexico and the Americas. Chefs bring their personal interpretation to seasonal ingredients, harvested from local African American-owned fishermen, ranchers, gardens and food purveyors. The participating chefs include:
March 26: Chef Ja’Nel Witt | Private Chef
April 9: Chef Fikisha Harrison | Fork and Thyme HTX
April 16: Chef Jeff Taylor | Uchi
August: Chef Kavachi Ukegbu | Grubios|Art of FuFu
Participating Purveyors Partners include:
Fresh life Organic
Ivy Farms
Sweetwater Farms
Captain Seafood
Captain Fred Seafood
Edelman Meat
PPF Farm
Plant It Forward
“Kulture: A Black Chef Table is dedicated to supporting the diverse culinary landscape and the vast spirit, wine, beer makers, and Black-owned food purveyors by providing a space to cultivate, incubate and promote talent,” said Griggs, the event’s curator.” It will provide an opportunity for BIPOC gastro artists to showcase their talents and illustrate their culinary perspective on the national platform.”
Davis, best known across the country for his popular, award-winning restaurant The Breakfast Klub, wants Black culinarians to rise to the same heights as non-minority chefs, and he believes The James Beard Nominated Kulture provides an optimal vehicle to do so.
“Ujamaa — the principle of cooperative economics — has long been the foundation upon which we’ve built the offerings of our family of brands,” said Davis. “Collaborating with Chef Griggs to present Black Chef Table is a natural extension of that work. We want to utilize our platform to highlight the ever-growing landscape of Black culinarians in a way that acknowledges our contribution to world cuisine, leverages our buying power, and benefits our economy.”
To purchase tickets and for more information , visit www.blackcheftable.com.
