Tag: dining

A gathering of hot-ticket tables, a Gulf Coast chef to know, and a Nashville voice bringing his Thai heritage home.

Meet the chef behind Charleston’s new French bistro, celebrate at spirited winter events, and and check out winners of the region's Michelin debut.

According to Executive Chef Jacob Stull, the most popular appetizer at Rêve, Birmingham, Alabama’s first-ever tasting menu restaurant, was inspired by a late-night Southern favorite: the “scattered, smothered, and covered” hash browns at Waffle House.

Lindsay Beck’s grandmother always had “a whole spread of pies” at family dinners and even grew her own rhubarb to use in them. Growing up watching her, Beck was inspired to use fresh ingredients to create her own desserts. Now the pastry chef at CAMP Modern American Eatery in Greenville, South Carolina, she crafts sophisticated sweets with a touch of nostalgia.

From a Cantonese chophouse in Florida to Gordon Ramsay’s newest kitchen in North Carolina—here’s what’s fresh on the Southern food scene.

Brian Griffith grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee, where he says Chinese food in the 1990s meant sweet and sour pork or shrimp fried rice that came in waxy takeout boxes. Now, after years of cooking in cities from Copenhagen to San Francisco, the chef has returned to his home state to open Choy, a chic Chinese-American eatery in Nashville designed to evoke mid-20th century Shanghai.

In late January, Colony Square will welcome a lively new eatery: a Barcelona-inspired tapas restaurant and bar called Boqueria. With 10 locations around the country, including four in New York City, this will be the chain’s first foray into Georgia.

Plus: A trio of new, internationally inspired restaurants and a trail for bacon enthusiasts in Macon, Georgia.

Plus: new tapas in Nashville, a hotdog-lover's paradise in West Virginia, and the World Chicken Festival in Kentucky.

The first time that executive pastry chef Danielle Sanchez walked into the Setai Miami Beach hotel, she remembers it being “romantic and dark and smelling like lemongrass and spices.” Sanchez conjures those sensations when brainstorming new pastries at Jaya, the Asian-inspired restaurant at this luxury property that once housed the historic Vanderbilt Hotel.