Jason Stanhope (FIG, Charleston James Beard Best Chef: Southeast, 2015).Rebecca Masson (Fluff Bake Bar, Houston).Michael Hudman and Andy Ticer (Andrew Michael, Memphis).Stephen Stryjewski (Cochon, New Orleans James Beard Best Chef: South, 2011).Sarah Grueneberg (Monteverde, Chicago James Beard Best Chef: Great Lakes, 2017).Ryan Prewitt (Pêche, New Orleans James Beard Best Chef: South, 2014).Guests will enjoy rosé all day (or at least from 6 to 10 p.m.) in style with food and wine pairings from Southern Smoke Foundation members and seven rock-star chefs from around the country. The kickoff event takes place at the Four Seasons Hotel Houston and is billed as a “007/Monte Carlo-themed multi-course extravaganza”. On Saturday, the party moves to Discovery Green for The Throwdown : an outdoor party featuring over 40 chefs! James Beard Award-winning chef Benchawan Painter (Street to Kitchen). Friday will see the return of Respect the Rosé, a fan-favorite wine dinner event from Shepherd’s days as executive chef/owner at Underbelly.
This year, the festival is split across two nights and features a number of chefs making their Southern Smoke debut. The inaugural event featured a cadre of lauded chefs, pitmasters and wine professionals who came together to raise $181,000 for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Both the foundation and the festival were originally created as a way to honor Shepherd’s friend and former colleague, Antonio Gianola, a longtime sommelier who had been diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. Since then, the foundation has distributed over $10.5 million in emergency relief funding and also provides no-cost mental health services for food and beverage professionals across the nation. Proceeds benefit the Southern Smoke Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded in 2015 by James Beard Award-winning chef Chris Shepherd and his wife, Lindsey Brown. Honoree Antonio Gianola with chef Chris Shepherd at the inaugural Southern Smoke event in 2015. The festival, taking place on Friday, October 13 and Saturday, October 14 in downtown Houston, features a line-up of local and national culinary stars. The seventh annual Southern Smoke Festival is returning in 2023 with a two-day bash to raise funds that support food and beverage workers nationwide.
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