Chef Serigne & Friends featuring Chef Tanya Holland
Experience an exclusive culinary collaboration as Chef Serigne Mbaye welcomes award-winning chef Tanya Holland to kick off our newest event series: Chef Serigne & Friends.
Chef Tanya Holland is a celebrated chef, author, and media personality, renowned for her modern take on soul food and her dedication to culinary excellence. As the founder of Brown Sugar Kitchen, Chef Holland has graced the stages of Top Chef, Iron Chef America, and Selena + Chef. She is also a passionate advocate for diversity in the culinary industry.
Join us for this one-night-only event featuring a special multi-course tasting menu that highlights the vibrant flavors and shared heritage of the African diaspora.
Tuesday, April 29th | 4:30 PM & 8:00 PM Seatings
$200 per person plus 20% service charge
Seats are limited — reserve yours today for this unforgettable evening of culinary artistry.
Chef Tanya Holland’s Latest Cookbook
Through more than 80 seasonally inspired recipes, Tanya Holland's California Soul showcases modern soul food. Tanya’s inventive cuisine—rooted in a Black Southern cultural repertoire with a twenty-first-century sensibility using local, sustainable, chef-driven, seasonal ingredients—is showcased in recipes for every season.
The recipes—influenced by the historical migration of African American families, including Tanya’s own—reveal the key ingredients, techniques, and traditions that African Americans brought with them as they left the South for California, creating a beloved version of soul food. Beyond recipes, Tanya spotlights fifteen contemporary Black Californian foodmakers—farmers, coffee roasters, and other talented artisans—whose work help defines California soul food, with stunning portraiture and stories. Filtered through the rich history of African American migration that brought her own family from the Deep South to the West Coast, Tanya's recipes are as comforting and delicious as they are steeped in history.