$75 per person for Food & Wine
Excluding tax & gratuity
Join us as we welcome our long time friend Marika Vida-Arnold. Chef josh is excited to curate a fabulous 5 course meal featuring the wonderful female driven wines from Frederick Wildman’s portfolio.
Over the past two decades, Marika has served as the Wine Director of the Ritz-Carlton Central Park, New York, Sommelier of the top-rated Laurent Tourondel Bistro, BLT Market and Sommelier for the Philadelphia Ritz-Carlton with ‘Top Chef’ winner Kevin Sbraga. She developed the opening wine program at 10Arts with Chef Eric Ripert and Chef Jennifer Carroll. Her Project of 10 Years, the critically acclaimed Phenomenal Femmes Program, focuses on female winemakers and winery owners from around the globe. Marika has been featured in Bloomberg, Forbes, Haute Living, Gotham, The Somm Journal, The Tasting Panel, The Wine Enthusiast, Seven-Fifty Daily, Liquor.com, Pix Wines and Thinking Outside The Bottle.
Under the auspices of her own company Vida et Fils Marika works with corporate clients, presenting for special events.She is currently a wine specialist for Frederick Wildman Importers.
Marika’s enthusiasm for wine, unique ability to convey knowledge to consumers and background in broadcasting have her presenting at the Nantucket, Newport, Charleston, Santa Fe, Boston, Aspen and Destin Food and Wine Festivals. She has worked with many wine agencies doing wine education for Wines of Rioja, Rias Baixas, Wines of Alsace and has worked with the following importers as consulting Brand Ambassador: Vineyard Brands, Kobrand and Jackson Family Wines. Additionally in our challenged years of 2020/21, Marika created a very successful LIVE series on Instagram with her trademarked name TheMomSomm as well as moderating virtual events with Geodesy, Marques de Caceres, Domaine des Lambrey, Pommery and Taittinger.