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Due to the success of our new Tasting Menu on October 6 & 7, we will feature another one on Wednesday evening, October 13th,. We are already sold out for dinner service on October 14th, however. Last night’s tasting menu included a five (5) course menu ( see the menu) featuring a tantalizing starter (amuse bouche),

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Congratulations to ACI student Drew Nochta for winning a $2500 academic scholarship from the National Restaurant Association. Drew’s scholarship is sponsored by Rachael Ray’s Yum-o! organization. This scholarship is awarded to outstanding High School students. Drew began the process which included writing several essays at the end of his senior year of high school as he

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Advanced Baking | Student projects from 10/8/2010 [gallery link="file"]

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Beau MacMillan, Executive Chef of Elements (located at The Sanctuary) , and Bill Nassikas, Owner of the The Sanctuary spoke to our Management class today. Chef McMillan, who is on the ACI Advisory Board, has wrapped up taping his first season of “Worst Cooks in America”. He just returned from filming a couple of episodes of

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Arizona Culinary Institute welcomes Chef Santos Villarico, who recently joined us from Le Cordon Bleu at Scottsdale. Chef Villarico will be teaching our Advanced Cuisine class, which cooks daily for our restaurant guests. Chef Villarico was born in the Phillipines, but moved here 32 years ago. He worked at the Fairmont Princess Resort for seven years

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