Photo courtesy of 21c Museum Hotel St. Louis.
Photo courtesy of 21c Museum Hotel St. Louis.

Members, Special Event

Feast Your Eyes: Nick Bognar

Mon Jan 13, 2025, 6:00pm – 8:00pm

Enjoy an intimate dinner by acclaimed chef Nick Bognar, executive chef and owner of indo and Sado. Known for his personal interpretation of Thai, Japanese, and Southeast Asian cuisines, Bognar will take inspiration from our fall/winter 2024 exhibitions and create a one-of-a-kind culinary experience at CAM.

Tickets are $125 for non-members; $100 for CAM members. Space is limited.

Tickets go on sale on Wednesday, November 20. 

 

About Nick Bognar

Nick Bognar is the 32-year old executive chef and co-owner of indo, the modern Asian restaurant in St. Louis’ Botanical Heights neighborhood, and Sado, a new sushi concept, in the historical Italian Neighborhood of The Hill in St. Louis—the first Asian restaurant in the neighborhood. Indo’s menu is reflective of Bognar’s identity as a Thai-American chef and showcases his talents in Japanese, Thai and Southeast Asian cooking. Nick was just named a James Beard semifinalist for Best Chef Midwest. In 2019, he was a James Beard semifinalist for Rising Star Chef of the Year and opened indo late June at 1641 Tower Grove Ave. GQ named Indo one of the Best New Restaurant of 2020. Nick was one of Food & Wine’s Best New Chef’s 2020 and has earned two James Beard Foundation nominations for Best New Restaurant and Rising Star Chef.

Bognar grew up in St. Louis helping with his Thai mother’s restaurant Nippon Tei, one of the first Japanese restaurants in the city. He was managing and operating the sushi bar at Nippon Tei before graduating from culinary school at St. Louis Community College- Forest Park. He went on to work at Austin’s Uchiko and served as executive chef at E+O Kitchen in Cincinnati before a long trip around Thailand and Cambodia. In 2017, Bognar returned home to St. Louis to reinvigorate the sushi menu at Nippon Tei.