Membership Meeting featuring Chef Lenny Russo - SOLD OUT
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This event is SOLD OUT! If you would like to be added to the waitlist, please contact Brittany Heller, Director of Events, at 651.265.2768 or brittany@saintpaulchamber.com.

Attend the Chamber's July Membership Meeting presented by Wells Fargo for the unique opportunity to hear from nationally renowned Chef and Restauranteur, Lenny Russo of Heartland Restaurant & Farm Direct Market. We'll also recognize new members and announce our monthly Celebrate Business Success Award recipient. And, because Heartland Restaurant is only open for dinner, you're in for an exclusive, once-in-a-lifetime experience for a housemade pastry buffet.

Lenny Russo - photoAbout our Keynote Speaker
Chef Russo has over thirty years of experience in the food and beverage industry. 

He also has extensive experience in retail food sales in both the gourmet and mass market segments. He was formally trained in clinical psychology, philosophy and literature at New College in Sarasota, Florida, and spent six years as a child and family psychotherapist before devoting his energy full time to being a chef.

As a chef, he has been featured in every major Twin Cities publication and many other national and regional publications. He has also made several television and radio appearances both nationally and in various local and regional markets. In addition, Chef Russo was recently named to the Chef Advisory Board of Saveur magazine.

From 2008 to 2011, Chef Russo was named a James Beard Foundation Award Semifinalist for Best Chef: Midwest and was named a finalist nominee in that category in 2010, 2011 and 2012.

Beginning in the summer of 2009, Chef Russo began authoring a blog focusing on issues related to food, farming and the environment and the politics related to those topics for the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Future projects include a wholesale business featuring Heartland’s proprietary food label, a book project and the development of a television series focusing on small family farms and sustainable agriculture.

About Heartland Restaurant & Farm Direct Market
Chef Russo, along with his wife and partner, Mega Hoehn, opened the original Heartland in 2002 in the Macalester-Groveland neighborhood of St. Paul. The restaurant expanded two years later to include a 30 seat wine bar. In July, 2010, Chef Russo, Ms. Hoehn and their team relocated Heartland from its original location to 289 East Fifth Street in the Lowertown neighborhood of downtown St. Paul. The new venue features expanded dining facilities as well as a full bar and farm direct market. Reflecting this, the name was changed from Heartland Contemporary Midwestern Restaurant to Heartland Restaurant & Farm Direct Market.

Register now - this event is exclusive to the first 80 individuals to register!

Investment: $25
Includes once in a life time experience at Heartland Restaurant and Farm Direct Market and a housemade pastry buffet!

Thank you to our Presenting Sponsor of the monthly Membership Meetings,
Wells Fargo:
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Cash refunds will be made for cancelled registrations if they are made three days in advance. Otherwise, substitutions and credits are welcome. A credit for a cancelled registration will be allowed provided the cancelation request is received by the event registrar at least one full business day prior to the start of the event.

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Date:
7/25/2012

Time:
11:30 AM TO 1:00 PM
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Heartland Restaurant & Farm Direct Market
289 East Fifth Street
Saint Paul, MN 55101

Phone:
(651) 223-5000
    DIRECTIONS
Heartland is located in the historic Market House Building on the corner of Fifth Street and Broadway at the north end of the St. Paul Farmer's Market in Downtown St. Paul's Lowertown Neighborhood. The main restaurant entrance is located midway down the block between Wall Street and Broadway. Limited mobility access is located on the Broadway side of the building between Fifth and Sixth Streets.

DIRECTIONS:
From Southbound I35E, take the 10th Street & Wacouta Street exits. Proceed on Wacouta Street to Fifth Street and turn left.

From Northbound I35E, take the Kellogg Blvd. & 11th Street exits. Proceed on Kellogg Blvd. to Seventh Street and turn left. Stay in the right lane to Fifth Street and turn right.

From Westbound I94, take the Sixth Street exit. Take the first left on Wall Street and proceed one block to Fifth Street. Turn left.

From Eastbound I94, take the Seventh Steet exit. Stay in the middle lane of th exit ramp and proceed two blocks to Fifth Street. Turn left.

From the airport, take Hwy 5 to the Shepherd Road exit. Turn left at the Shepherd Road stoplight. Take Shepherd Road into downtown Saint Paul. Turn left at Sibley Street and stay in the right lane. Take Sibley Street to Fifth Street. Turn right.

PARKING
Parking is available at multiple surface lots and parking ramps within one-to-two blocks of Heartland. Click here for a map of Saint Paul parking facilities.

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