Join the Junior League of Baltimore for a night of conversation and fun! We are hosting a Leadership Virtual Happy Hour featuring and focusing on women in the food and restaurant industry. This is a virtual event with all proceeds from ticket sales directly benefiting the Junior League of Baltimore and our community based work.
Ticket includes access to the event via Zoom, a swag bag, and the opportunity to ask questions of our speakers during the event. Don't miss your opportunity to spend a night with some of Baltimore's best and brightest in the food industry!
Please direct any questions to Jahncie Cook or Emily Sollenberger Dobbins (fundraisingevents@jlbalt.org)
Tenth Ward Distilling Company and Mr. Nice Guy Cocktails collaborated to create a cocktail kit to enjoy during this Leadership Virtual Happy Hour event! The follow at home kit is $25 and makes two cocktails with Tenth Ward Genever Gin and includes a can of Tenth Ward's brand new upcoming canned cocktail! If you order the kit we will include it in your swag bag. Click here to purchase a cocktail kit. There will be a cocktail demonstration from the wonderful women at Tenth Ward Distilling Company.
Monique Soileau-Burke (Ice Queens) is a pediatrician by trade and snowball shop owner by choice. Growing up in southwest Louisiana, she consumed many New Orleans style cherry snoballs and couldn’t wait to replicate the flavors in Baltimore. A graduate of Tulane University and Tulane University Medical School, Monique moved to Baltimore in 1999 to complete her pediatric residency at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She has been a partner in practice at The Pediatric Center in Columbia, MD, since 2002, where she cared for her current Ice Queens business partner, Dasia Kabia. Monique lives in Locust Point with her husband and daughter. She enjoys running, traveling, and working at Ice Queens.
Dasia Kabia (Ice Queens) is a culinary graduate of Western Tech High School and was a lifelong resident of Baltimore County before moving to Baltimore City earlier this year. She has been an entrepreneur since elementary school: selling blondies from her book bag, reselling donuts from Shoppers, and dreaming of opening her own snowball shop. Her dream cam true in 2020 when she partnered with her former pediatrician, Monique Burke, to open Ice Queens. Food is Dasia’s love language and she can frequently be found cooking up unique creations for her friends and family. Dasia enjoys traveling, spending time with her family, and creating new sweet treats for Ice Queens…living every day to its fullest.
Ann Costlow (Sofi's Crepes) is the founder and owner of Sofi’s Crepes which has multiple locations throughout Maryland. Ann had been a Stockbroker for 16 years and took a three month leave of absence to be a galley cook on a tall ship, The Pride of Baltimore II. When she returned, there was no going back to corporate life, so she ventured out to open something on her own. She had spent some time in Paris and decided that crepes would be her concept. Delicious and not that complicated, so that is where it all began. She named it Sofi’s Crepes after her loyal pup of 11 years. Ann studied the art of crepes by visiting creperies all over Brittany and Paris. She took classes at La Cordon Blue cooking school in Paris. Sofi’s is now franchised with multiple locations throughout Maryland.When asked if she ever misses finance, she says she has never looked back.
Courtney Fix (Full Circle Artisan Palace) is the owner of Full Circle Doughnuts in Hampden. The business will be three years old in December. Full Circle is an out of the box pastry experience that challenges you to test your tastebuds to try something you wouldn't normally think would be in a doughnut. We use our doughnuts to promote peace and social justice, while still making sure they look good enough to eat. If your'e ever in Baltimore and want to try some of the best doughnuts around stop by the shop!
Raffle prize includes items from Full Circle Artisan Palace and Ice Queens!
