Chronicles from a Pig Party

Our associate food editor goes to the Southern Foodways Alliance conference to celebrate the year of the pig and other Southern delights.

Is bacon overstaying its welcome?

Absoulutely! They have a great, young executive chef, Sean Brock. Amy Beth

They closed because the two chefs were going in different directions acording to the paper. I really liked the restaurant and was sad to see it close. if you want good molecular gastronomy you can still go to McCrady’s...

First choice is Capitol Grill in Hermitage Hotel downtown. Great room, wonderful chef (Sean Brock) who will do a special menu if contacted in advance and a pretty good wine list. After that it is a toss-up to me between Zola, F....

<3 Sean Brock

Chef Sean Brock is doing a fantastic job at Capitol Grill.

Some friends and I are planning a weekend at Isle of Palms and want to drive into Charleston for dinner one night. I’m interested in McCready’s because it sounds like Sean Brock is doing some things that you...

franklin food & spirits festival in franklin. saw a link this morning on a blog about a pig on main street franklin, linked to the site for the festival and saw the chefs they had attending, two of which are john fleer and sean...

Hands down, its McCrady’s. Take a look at a website called chuckeats. This guy dines all over the world and calls Sean Brock “one of a handfull of great chefs in the US”. Bring money.

Chef Sean Brock has done amazingly creative things to food here in Charleston and when he was Head Chef in Nashville at The Capitol Grille .. more on Chef Brock here: http://www.mccradysrestaurant.com/01_c_chef.html from the...

in Washington, DC is on my list to try next. I’m wondering though, are chefs doing stuff like this in places other than these and other major cities? I’ve heard of Sean Brock at McCrady’s in Charleston. Are there...

and save some money in these tough times. Taylor Grocery is probably the most famous of these places (Sean Brock has a photo of it on his blog at the moment). Even in Memphis, where liquor laws are lax and poorly enforced, BYOB...

It’s also worth mentioning Capitol Grille in the Hermitage Hotel. No, Sean Brock is no longer there to show Nashvillians just what molecular gastronomy is all about, but his former sous Tyler Brown is, and he puts out...

I agree with DaleJ Mcrady’s is the way to go. I have taken two trips to Charleston just to eat Sean Brocks food. They do great things with great products.