World-class cuisine to be served at first ever fundraiser to benefit Seguin Ag students
(Seguin) — The Davila family legacy of good food and community spirit is taking on a new chapter — a chapter that honors the past while investing in the future.
Adrian Davila, third-generation pitmaster and owner of Davila’s BBQ, has announced the launch of the Raul & Geronima Davila Foundation. The foundation is created in honor of his grandparents and their lifelong dedication to hard work, family, and faith.
The foundation’s inaugural event, La Cosecha — Spanish for “The (October)Harvest” — will be held this Saturday, October 25. Davila says he specifically designed the dinner event to be under the stars along West Kingsbury Street, just outside Davila’s BBQ.
Davila says the foundation’s first fundraiser, a world-class cuisine, will benefit Seguin High School’s agricultural science program. He says money raised will go to help students purchase a livestock trailer for the new Seguin ISD Agri-science center being built just outside of town.
Davila says he will be partnering with neighboring businesses and sponsors to transform the area outside his restaurant into an elegant, open-air venue — a setting he describes as the “perfect place to celebrate Seguin’s spirit of community.”
The featured component of the event is of course the food. Davila says he’s teaming up with acclaimed Chef Edgar Chávez of Rosewood Mayakoba in Playa del Carmen. The two first cooked together several years ago in Mexico, and this time, he says Chávez will join him in Seguin for what he promises to be an unforgettable culinary experience.
“This definitely is a rare occasion. So, Chef Edgar Chavez — he is the executive chef of Rosewood Mayakoba and if you do any research on that resort, you know it’s an ultra-luxury resort in the manner that it is very private. He leads a team that carries high standards of food in their banquets and everything they do. They do this wonderful meal, communal meal that they do and what that encompasses – it’s an experience and it’s nice but the focus is using local ingredients – very relatable — but beautiful food,” said Davila.
He says after he and his father Edward were treated to Chavez’s hospitality, he has always been hopeful to bring this unique collaboration to Seguin. He says guests will enjoy an inspired menu that celebrates harvest season with a Mexican coastal flair. He says among the menu items will be street corn, artichoke ceviche, tomato salad, shrimp with Axiote, and ribeye crusted with ashes.
“But from the time you walk in, there will be cocktails and wine and other refreshments. You will be greeted with an hors d’oeuvre of several choices,” said Davila.
Of course, dessert will also be served for a sweet finish. It will include creamy corn mousse and toasted corn ice cream with crispy epazote.
Davila says the event marks a proud full-circle moment for the family business. He says what began as a small barbecue stand in 1959 has grown into a symbol of Seguin’s culinary and cultural heritage — and now, through the Raul & Geronima Davila Foundation, he says the second and third generations are doing what the first could have only dreamed of.
Tickets to the event are $100 per person. Tickets are avaible online at . The link can also be found on the Davila’s BBQ Facebook page. or by following this link.