Rose & Crown partners with Three-13 Salon for benefit event

Founder of the 16th annual Angels of Life event, raising support for the Georgia Transplant Foundation. And this year, one of the sponsors, Rose and Crown Tavern, helping to support the cause, Executive Chef Joshua Hill is here with a little something sweet for the season. We got his new Great Pumpkin Cheesecake, which sounds pretty amazing. So it's so good to have both of you here. Welcome. Thank you. Hi. All right, so let's start by talking about you, Lester. Quite a story here, two heart transplants. I had two heart transplants. Wow. December 4th, 2010 is my second one. That's when we started Angels of Life. We had our first one in 2011. This is our 16th annual Angels of Life, benefiting the Georgia Transplant Foundation. Sure. So you know firsthand how important that it is to have support. Yes, definitely. Yeah. Okay, now tell me about Rose and Crown, the connection here. Well, Rose and Crown is a sponsor of our event, and we have a giving brunch at Rose and Crown a few weeks before the event, which I think we had about 150 people there this year. And they're sponsoring. And I think we're just showing a little bit of what Rose and Crown has to offer, too. I love it. You know, it's good to have community support. It is, definitely. And so it's great to be able to highlight them. But I got to tell you, I was sold as soon as you said pumpkin cheesecake. So tell me about this. So I'm Chef Josh. I work at Rose and Crown. We do some traditional pub fare upstairs and international steakhouse downstairs. This is one of my favorites, actually. I got really excited about this dish. I've done pumpkin previously with all the traditional things. Stepped out a little bit. Starts with whole pumpkins. They're roasted, so we get some nice caramelization in there. And then I serve them with a cranberry, rosemary, black pepper, aqua dulce, toasted oats, and some fried rosemary. It's a little play on pumpkin that most people aren't familiar with. That's what I want to ask you about, because that's an attention getter. You don't typically hear about combining. that flavor with pumpkin well i mean it's on the same plate usually you don't think of it as part of like if you if you really think about you know all of the things that you eat around the holidays these things are there and they're often eaten together but most people wouldn't put them on a plate um but at the end of the day you know everything's truly about balance when it comes to food so if you get a little bit from here a little bit from there it all comes together appropriately so what was the reaction and folks love it uh my favorite thing to hear is i don't like pumpkin but that's amazing hey hey i think there's one problem right here though what we don't have forks i'm gonna call it out i brought tasting spoons but it looks amazing and trust me that will certainly get tried so i'm so glad to know that that Rose and Crown is a community partner and sponsor and all of this but let's talk about the event so this is happening on sunday right it is sunday we'll have about five six hundred people there we benefit the Georgia transplant foundation that helps people that are waiting for a transplant and you might be able to pay your house payment your electricity bill you can't get to the hospital if you have a child maybe they're in the hospital you're not going to work you're going so that's going to put a crimp in your budget but so the Georgia Transplant Foundation helps pay for medicine and things like that i can imagine this is something that it's obviously important to you but you you have to feel proud to know that i mean come on for 16 years you've been putting on this event that's benefiting the Georgia Transplant we've donated 1.2 million so far almost wow to hit the 1.2 million mark this Sunday that's incredible it really is so how about tickets tickets still available we have sponsorships tickets um we have on our website 313.com you can go to our angels tab and you can see everything we've done in the past everything we're doing in the future this this weekend is going to be like a great event very nice and what's this i hear about one of our very own here Tanya Mendoza yes walk in the pink carpet i think it was uh it was smart thank you smart to get her into this yes she's um we do interviews of our main sponsors um how they got involved and she's working the pink carpet that night we call it the pink carpet which is fantastic not the red carpet yeah i love it i love it so it's been 16 years what are your goals and hopes for the future what do you want to see you know maybe it's year 17 you're 18 you're 19 well we're taking baby steps toward that 2 million you know so we want to well we really want to you know raise money for the Georgia Transplant Foundation to help people in Georgia you know they're waiting for transplants and having that struggle so we're really excited about this weekend and you know you can also see our event on our Facebook page you can go to that angels tab and it'll be broadcast live that night you can see our silent auction items all that very nice and how can folks stop and i am going to get elani thank you very much for bringing me bringing me a fork i'm going to try this and while i do tell us how we can come and see you at Rose and Crown where you guys are located we're at 1935 Powers Ferry Atlanta very close to the Battery um we're open seven days a week be ready come on in this is good y'all this is good so this is on the menu you can order this right now 10 out of 10 thank you absolutely delicious so Lester and Chef Joshua thank you both so much for coming in today and sharing the message with us thank you and the food we appreciate it and the 16th annual Angels of Life event is this Sunday at 4:30 p.m. at the Atlanta Marriott Northwest at Galleria so if you'd like to purchase a ticket you can head to 313.com slash angels and we'll share a link on our website fox5atlanta.com just look under the Good Day section