2024 Annual Bits & Bites

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Dallas College’s annual Bits & Bites event celebrates Dallas Culinary Culture! This year's Bits & Bites is set for Sunday, April 21, 2024, from 6-8 p.m. at the beautiful Dallas Arboretum’s A Tasteful Place.

*VIP experience begins at 5:30 p.m.

Featuring some of Dallas’ best chefs working together with our students, Bits & Bites exemplifies the work Dallas College does to connect our students to their careers in the exciting culinary and hospitality industry. Bits & Bites also celebrates the strength and resiliency of our valued hospitality industry workforce!

2024 Annual Bits & Bites Tickets

When you purchase your tickets today, or if you decide to enjoy our famous VIP experience by becoming a Friend, Patron, or Partner of the Culinary Arts in Dallas, you are SUPPORTING OUR STUDENTS and the entire hospitality community as we all work together to make Dallas the BEST city in the U.S. to build a hospitality industry career!

Please join us for this afternoon of fun at the beautiful Dallas Arboretum’s A Tasteful Place!

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Jazz singer, Sierra Leona from Bits & Bites

Enjoy the cool jazz of Sierraleone!

The line-up for Bits & Bites 2024 will include some of the top alumni and employer partner chefs in the city who work with and employ our students!

See 2023's list of presenting Chefs, Partners, Patrons, Friends and Sponsors below:

Fernando Lezama
3F Premier Catering
Fernando Cardona-Heredia
Asador at Renaissance Hotel Dallas
Nikky Phinyawatana
Asian Mint
Chris Patrick
Bright Box Foods
Meaders Ozarow
Empire Baking Co
Paula Lambert
Dallas Mozzarella Company
Hugh Stewart
Fork and Glass Catering
Luke Rogers
Beckley 1115
Andrew Ramsey
Profound Farms
Chef Segundo Romero
Dallas College
Jeana Johnson
Self

Sean Jett
Humble: Simply Good Pies
John Tesar
Knife Dallas
Dunia Terselich-Borga
La Duni Baking Studio
Adam West
Local Yocal BBQ & Grill
Misti Norris
Petra & the Beast
Abraham Salum
Salum Restaurant
Justin Box
Self
Sandra Sepulveda
Mesquite High School
Mike Douresseaux
The! Dallas Culinary Company
Marcus Moehler
MRM Food Services
Mike Mathis
Fearing's Restaurant

Jimmy Contreras
Taco y Vino
Robert Hale
Texas Beef Council
Jordan Swim
Vestals Catering
Preston Nguyen
World Food Champion and Next Level Chef competitor
Josh Healy
Zolis/Cane Rosso/Thunderbird Pies
Jason Blackwell
Chef's Knife Catering
Jacob Burden
Omni Dallas Hotel
Jim Knifong
Dallas College
Diana Zamora
Nena Postreria
Aubrey Murphy
SER Steak + Spirits

Hospitality Sponsors

Feature Sponsors

VIP Table Sponsors

Killian & Hargrave Family
Norman and Chela Abdallah

Virginia and Bruce DeBrow

Partners of the Culinary Arts

Michael D. Walker

Patrons of the Culinary Arts

Tim Thobe and Wade Hyde
David Bower
Glenda and Dennis Whiting
Stephen and Shauna King
Michael Helfand
Sharon Van Meter
Tracy and Robert Hinton
Nancy Bernardino
Bethany Whetsone

David Curry
Ellen and Bob Dill
Scott Chase
Sarah Helfand
Nikki DeShazo
Agustin Bernardino
Lira and Steve DeShazo
Greg Morris and Miguel Garcia
Lisa Leffingwell and Rex Gunter

Debra Witter
Big Hit Creative
Thomas Snyder and Stephanie Snyder
Texas Restaurant Association Dallas Chapter
Michelle and John Redding
Nancy and Augustin Bernardino

Friends of the Culinary Arts

Donna Hill
Justin Lonon
Carmen Pace
Jasper Wolf
Tetsuya Umebayashi

Marianne Howells
Tonya Lonon
Sander Wolf
Matthew Mabel
Paula Joy Kindred

Karen Vickery
Karissa Lonon
Annette Wolf
Brooke Ball
Helena Banks

Jim White and Vicki Briley-White Scholarship Donors

Anonymous in the name of Vicki Briley-White
Mary Batzel
Judy Ward
Mary Blake Beeler Meadows
Patrick L. Esquerre
George Mason
Faith Commons
Melanie O. Christina
Gary E. Griffith
Hunter Blair
Joel Chusid

Lira and Steve DeShazo
Kevin Kalley
Everett Williams
Paula S. Lambert
Sinelli Concepts International
Melanie B. Sundeen
The Baddish Group
Rezdora LLC
Stanley Levenson
Kathy Kramer
Veletta Forsythe Lill
Sonja Kim & Michael Lee Dickenson

Troy Dungan
Stephen Brookshire
Stephen E. Melton
Pat Paul
Merrill Bonarrigo
Benjamin H. Holly
Nikolai A. Brounoff
Linda DeHoff
Sylvia S. Stinson
Paul Sacco
Meri-Kay Star

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In-Kind Sponsors

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A Workforce Development Machine

For more than 50 years, Dallas College has trained an expert and passionate workforce serving the North Texas culinary and hospitality industry. Through Bits & Bites and other community efforts, the Culinary, Pastry and Hospitality (CPH) program demonstrates its commitment to the local culinary community and its status as a nationally recognized culinary arts and pastry training program.

Student Success – A Partnership That Works

Thanks to the overwhelming support of you, the local industry and the greater Dallas community, our over 10,000 program alumni now count among some of the most successful operators and leaders in town!

We can look to examples like Maricsa Trejo, whose La Casita Bakeshop is nominated as a James Beard semifinalist for Outstanding Bakery. Or Terance Jenkins, executive chef at Restaurant Beatrice, also nominated this year for Best New Restaurant in those vaunted awards! Or look to Michelle Tribble, now serving as executive R&D chef for Gordon Ramsay North America after appearing on and winning "Hell’s Kitchen All-Stars." And also look to new digital economy stand-outs like World Food Championship winner Preston Nguyen and social media influencer Tye Sule, who came from our dual-credit partner Dubiski Career High School in Grand Prairie and has over 761K followers on TikTok, 291K YouTube subscribers and 119K on Instagram.

These few examples represent all of our hardworking students and alumni who are among the most well-trained and dependable professionals in town and exemplify the fine work of the Dallas College faculty and staff team in creating student success!