St. Pete’s In Between Days’ Supper Club pop-up celebrates the Cambodian New Year this month

St. Pete sake bar, listening room and intimate restaurant In Between Days already hosts a variety events, but it’s stepping up in a big way with the launch of its monthly Supper Club pop-ups.

In Between Days’ next Supper Club event takes place on Sunday, April 16 and will commemorate the Cambodian New Year with innovative and personal dishes from Chef Silas Eng.

“My mother was a war prisoner during Cambodia’s civil war and barely escaped with her life. Her fortitude gave me the life I have now and I am honored to share the dishes of my roots,” Chef Eng says about his New Year’s dinner.

The six course, pre-fixe dinner will feature dishes like grilled lemongrass beef skewers, papaya salad, shrimp dumplings, Cambodian-infused NY strips and mango sticky rice for desert.

Access to Chef Eng’s Supper Club event costs $120 per person, but there’s two different dinner slots—one that runs from 5:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m. and another that happens from 8 p.m.-10 p.m. Tickets can be purchased via eventbrite.com, but since there’s a limited amount of space inside the bungalow-turned sake bar, the folks from In Between Days recommend that you snag tickets ASAP.

The price of admission also includes a sake pairing from In Between Days.

Chef Eng is a Tampa-based private chef that recently relocated from the Washington D.C. area. While Eng’s work often features traditional Cambodian dishes, he utilizes techniques and flavors from other Southeast Asian and East Asian cuisines, too.

A quick scroll through his social media depicts innovative fusion dishes like spicy miso-carnitas ramen, yakitori chicken skewers with spicy teriyaki sauce and a pho-inspired porchetta banh mi with black garlic mayo.

For the latest news on In Between Days’ upcoming pop-up, head to its Instagram at @inbetweendays.co, where future installments of its monthly Supper Club will be announced soon.

This article appears in Mar 30 – Apr 5, 2023.