Montclair Chef Prepares and Donates 500 Thanksgiving Meals

This past Thanksgiving day, Mike Carrino, chef/partner of Pig & Prince Restaurant & Gastrolounge, prepared and donated approximately 500 traditional Thanksgiving Day meals the Montclair Salvation Army for their community dinner. Members of the Salvation Army offered their gratitude as they picked up the food on Thanksgiving morning.

Carrino along with Members of the Pig & Prince Restaurant & Gastrolounge culinary team and Major Kevin Stoops from the Montclair Salvation Army all played a role in making sure the meals were cooked and delivered in a tasty and timely fashion.

“We are happy to support the Salvation Army this Thanksgiving season for the eighth year in a row,” said Carrino. “We have had the good fortune of being supported by the great people of Montclair and we wanted to show our thanks by helping those within the community who are struggling this holiday season. It’s a tradition we started at Restaurant Passionné and continued with the opening of Pig & Prince in 2012. We are very excited that we reached our goal of approximately 500 meals as the Salvation Army fed as many as 1,100 people on Thanksgiving. Our efforts covered almost a half of those meals.”

Carrino has made guest appearances on NBC’s Today Show, Good Day New York, CBS 2 Saturday Morning, Today in New York, LX New York, News 12 New Jersey and has been featured in The New York Times, Bon Appétit, New Jersey Monthly, The Star-Ledger, New York Post and Zagat Dinning Guide and more.

He was also declared the winner of his episode of Food Network’s cooking competition “CHOPPED.” He is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America and at the age of 28, was inducted into the prestigious society of wine gurus, chefs, hotel executives and restaurant owners, known as The Chaîne des Rotisseurs. Additionally, on three separate occasions, Carrino was invited to cook for the prestigious members of the world famous James Beard Foundation in New York City.

About Pig & Prince Restaurant & Gastrolounge

Located at the Historic Lackawanna Railroad Station, Pig & Prince Restaurant & Gastrolounge is where sophisticated food and a casual atmosphere meet. Pig & Prince features creative, non-pretentious Modern American cuisine with a devotion to seasonal, local ingredients.

Information and photos courtesy of Pig & Prince Restaruant & Gastrolounge