With a backdrop of polar bears and sea otters at the Zoo's Water's Edge exhibit, enjoy appetizers and wine as you watch the competition between local chefs. Then taste the fabulous salmon concoctions and vote for your favorite dish! Event is scheduled Monday, October 12, 2009, from 6:30 to 8 p.m.

Featured chef's include our Executive Chef Keith Fuller, Bill Fuller from big burrito group, Shown Carlson from A Taste of the Wild Catering and Seth Morrison from Whole Foods Market.

Register today for this event and learn about wise seafood choices and how you can help protect one of our country's last Wild Salmon Forests in Southeast Alaska: The Tongass National Forest.

Six Penn Kitchen is a partner of the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium's new Sustainable Seafood Program. Through this program, Six Penn has pledged to serve only sustainable seafood, which follow the recommendations from the Monterey Bay Aquarium's, Seafood Watch Program. It is this commitment to protecting the ocean environment that is important to both Six Penn Kitchen and the Zoo.

Six Penn is the Zoo's first restaurant partner to sign up for this program and we look forward to more local restaurants to get on board.