Chefs

Culinary and Mixology Competitors Announced – 2023 NCRLA Chef Showdown

The annual NCRLA Chef Showdown competition promotes and spotlights the talent of chefs, pastry chefs, and mixologists across North Carolina.

Not a stretch – Tall John’s, Asheville’s next Best Restaurant?

Tall John's impresses with unique (read delicious) treatment of each dish, including the most mundane, such as Baby Turnips.

Collaborative Pop-Up Dinner: Good Hot Fish and Jettie Rae’s

Featuring dishes like Caviar and Catfish with Sunburst Farms trout caviar and Deviled Bronzino with fresh lump blue crab.

SOCO – BAM it’s GOOD!

SOCO Southern Contemporary Cuisine knocked our socks off! When three hours go by and you're still not ready to leave, you know it's a keeper.

Six Hundred opening in Winston-Salem – what you haven’t heard!

"A melting pot of culinary activity, we want it to be a complete experience: culinary bar, firewood, grill works, soapstone hearth." - Chef Travis Myers

Asheville Culinary Festival Chow Chow Postpones Until September 2021

Chow Chow, Asheville’s new culinary festival, is being re-scheduled for September 2021 due to the disruption and uncertainty caused by Covid-19.
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Asheville Restaurants, their Humans, and COVID-19

Watching Asheville restaurant owners and employees speak about handling the COVID-19 crisis, you can feel their search for reason and a way forward as...

What’s up with Twisted Laurel Restaurant Group?

The Twisted Laurel Restaurant Group has a lot of news to share: Hard to believe the summer is over, but all of us at...

‘Top Chef’ Alum Katsuji Tanabe Announces Raleigh, NC Restaurant

Chef Katsuji Tanabe – the celebrated chef who captured television audiences when he starred on Bravo TV’s hit competition series Top Chef Boston, Top...

Best of North Carolina Chef Showdown Final Event

Durham - The NC Restaurant & Lodging Association (NCRLA) hosts 4th annual Chef Showdown Final Event featuring creations from 20 of the best chefs in NC.

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