A group of ex-apprentices from The Coach House got together a few weeks ago and put together an appreciation dinner for Kurt Fleischfresser, their mentor.  Each of the graduates of the Coach House culinary program assisted in planning and executing the dinner, which was extremely well recieved by the patrons who attended.

After the five course feast, the apprentices came into the dining room and presented Chef Kurt with a silver trophy engraved with the names of all of the past apprentices and a diary which was inscribed by the former students and will be added to by future graduates of the Coach House program. 

Kurt was especially suprised and pleased by the attendance of his mentor, Chef Bernard Cretier, under whom he had apprenticed in Chicago over 15 years ago.  Chef Cretier flew down for the evening and had wonderful things to say about his protege, who has done so well professionally and trained so many more young chefs.