Celebrity chef Anne Burrell to host cooking demonstration at Batavia Downs Gaming & Hotel

Tickets packages now on sale

Press Release

Batavia Downs Gaming & Hotel announced celebrity Chef Anne Burrell will host “An Afternoon with Anne Burrell” at Batavia Downs Gaming & Hotel in the Park Place Events Center at 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 24.

Attendees will see chef Anne prepare an entrée, side and dessert, and hear about all the fun she has hosting her hit show, “Worst Cooks In America,” on Food Network.

Come see one of America’s favorite chefs!

Following the show, Anne will host a small reception for those with meet-and-greet tickets. Dinner with the same items Anne demonstrated making will be held at two different seating times (5 and 7 p.m.) in the Genesee Room upstairs.

Show-only tickets are $60; show and dinner tickets are $110 (choose seatings at 5 or 7 p.m.), show and meet-and-greet-only are $150; and VIP (show, 7 p.m. dinner, meet-and-greet) are $200. Tickets are on sale now at www.BataviaConcerts.com.

“With the Buffalo Bills on a bye week and Thanksgiving the week after, we thought it would be a perfect time for folks to come see this famous upstate New Yorker,” said Byron Brown, president and CEO of Batavia Downs. “I know our patrons will be looking forward to her demonstrating her culinary skills and hearing stories about her time as a TV star.”

Hailing from Cazenovia, Anne is an American chef, television personality, and former instructor at the Institute of Culinary Education. A graduate of Canisius College, she is the host of the Food Network show “Secrets of a Restaurant Chef” and co-host of “Worst Cooks in America.” She was also one of the “Iron Chefs” in the “Iron Chef America” series and appears on other programs on the network such as “The Best Thing I Ever Ate,” “Chopped” and “Chef Wanted.” Anne is an accomplished author, too, having written a New York Times best-selling cookbook.