An interactive chef's table exploring the five senses — temperature, texture, aroma, memory, and contrast. Designed not simply to feed guests, but to make them stop, taste, smell, feel, and discover something unexpected.
With the menu intenionally kept secret, guests won’t know exactly what’s coming—they’ll simply have to taste, explore, and experience each course for themselves.
Date & Time: Friday, September 18, 2026, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Location: NICHE Innovation Kitchen, First Floor
Ticket Price: $75 per person
Includes: 4-course chef-curated dinner
Meet Chef Christopher Cantrel. Christopher has spent the past 20 years turning a lifelong passion for cooking into a career built around memorable dining experiences. He left high school during his sophomore year to pursue his dream of becoming a chef — a path that has taken him through some of the most demanding environments in the culinary world, including major theme parks (Disney, Universal Studios), high-volume kitchen leadership, and cross-disciplinary work in fine dining, Asian cuisine, farm-to-table, and contemporary American cuisine. He has run an omakase-style fine dining restaurant within a Forbes Five-Star, AAA Five-Diamond hotel, and served as Executive Chef for a luxury casino. Today, as a chef and culinary educator, he brings that experience together with a passion for teaching, creativity, and making people experience food in a new way. The Sensory Table reflects that philosophy.
Four set courses. Built around sensory experience, surprise, and unexpected combinations.
The National Institute for Culinary and Hospitality Education (NICHE) is a multifaceted entity combining innovative curriculum with business operations to create synergistic learning outcomes for students and a highly skilled and passionate workforce that will not only benefit NICHE but Wichita itself.
Our mission is to celebrate and enhance our culinary landscape and our founding principles are sustainability, accessibility and innovation.
