When it comes to award shows, it’s easy to assume that they dine on super-expensive dishes in the triple or quadruple digits. However, for the 2025 Screen Actor’s Guild Awards, or SAG Awards, they’re shaking things up with twists on casual classics like pizza, fried chicken, and more.
Ahead of the Awards tonight on Feb 23, 2025, at 8 p.m. ET, Michelin-starred Chef David Chang told the New York Post about the 2025 SAG Awards menu.
“The menu is a little bit different because we’re in a location that doesn’t always allow cooking, so we’re limited by what we can actually cook and execute,” Chang said to the outlet. “Also, the sort of mandate was, let’s make this fun, fresh, a little bit different.”
So what does that mean? The cocktail hour has slides and chips, the main course has fried chicken, and the finale is a pizza. Yes, you read that right. However, this is the SAG Awards we’re talking about, so there’s gotta be a twist to it.
Chang said that the cocktail hour “will be our version of a slider with honey butter chips. The main course is going to be pulled fried chicken with kimbap, which is a Korean dish, so I think people will understand it pretty easily, it’s basically just a rice roll.”
And for the pizza finale, someone else is joining Chang: Chef Chris Bianco.
“Then the last course. [I] teamed up with my good friend, Chef Chris Bianco. He has a restaurant down at the ROW… he makes the best pizza in the world,” he said. “He made a pizza specifically for Sunday, and we’re pairing that with something special that will be unveiled” at the show.
BRB while we try to spot any and all the details tonight, and try to recreate it at home!
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