Tag: food

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

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.

High yield and hardy, okra thrives in the unrelenting heat of the South’s summer months. Thought to have been introduced to Louisiana from West Africa during the early 18th century by enslaved Africans, the plant’s resilience and diverse uses made it integral to the region’s foodways.

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.

At Osteria Olio, the wildly popular eatery inside the new Rivet House boutique hotel in Athens, Georgia, creatively prepared Italian favorites lure locals as well as hotel guests. And while the homemade pastas and entrees such as pollo Napoletana bring the crowds, the dessert menu has its own shining staple: the chocolate hazelnut semifreddo.

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.

Of the 500-plus species of crayfish that exist worldwide, more than 300 varieties inhabit the rivers, lakes, and bayous of the southeastern United States, where they are colloquially called crawfish. Throughout the region, these freshwater crustaceans are considered a springtime delicacy.

Plus, three Southern strawberry festivals, a mimosa trail in Richmond, and "eat your way" itineraries in coastal Alabama.

In addition—new and noteworthy hotel restaurants, Atlanta's Michelin stars, and more food-related news from across the Southeast.