Graduating college students with Flathead Valley Neighborhood Faculty’s Culinary Institute of Montana are serving Italian-inspired delicacies throughout their pop-up restaurant Divina Trattoria.
The restaurant will serve lunch starting Wednesday, April 13. The restaurant will likely be open from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. for company each Wednesday, Thursday and Friday all through April.
Positioned on the FVCC campus within the Arts & Expertise constructing, patrons can head downstairs to the academic kitchen to order and luxuriate in on-site. Menu gadgets are additionally out there for take-out. The menu gadgets embrace pastas, sandwiches, soups, salads and desserts.
“Our mission is to supply wholesome, reasonably priced meals whereas creating constructive connections with the Kalispell neighborhood,” stated culinary scholar Kyran Neer.
College students created the concept of Divina Trattoria as their Culinary Capstone remaining venture. The whole lot from the kind of delicacies and restaurant identify to the marketing strategy and advertising and marketing supplies is all a part of the capstone venture that marks the fruits of the group’s FVCC culinary research.
FVCC Culinary Arts Program Director Chef Manda Hudak stated the Culinary Capstone class and remaining venture enable college students to place every thing collectively they’ve realized through the culinary program and share it with the neighborhood.
“It’s an necessary a part of their training and actually challenges every scholar to search out inspiration and keenness of their work,” she stated in a launch.
Graduating culinary scholar Avery George factors to a ardour for meals and cooking that come from household.
“I grew up round cooking and have my household to thank for uplifting me immediately,” George stated. “My grandma particularly taught me about utilizing meals to point out love — she actually put the fervour there for me.”
Along with scrumptious meals, the senior class has determined to share the love by means of a meals drive referred to as, “Can for a Cookie.” Divina Trattoria company can carry non-perishable meals gadgets, hygiene merchandise, child meals and provides to donate to the FVCC Meals Pantry out there for college kids. In return, they’ll obtain a chocolate chip cookie in trade for a donation.
Divina Trattoria is open for lunch on April 13-15, 20-22, and 27-29. To order forward for decide up, name/textual content (406) 897-0101 or e-mail divina-trattoria@fvcc.edu, or come order and dine in at FVCC’s Arts & Expertise constructing on campus. The restaurant’s menu is on the market at https://www.fvcc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/2022-Divina-large-poster-menu7217.pdf
Go to fvcc.edu/culinary to study extra in regards to the Culinary Institute of Montana at FVCC.
