Big Bad Chef, Oxford Mississippi
Support the local Oxford Music Scene. Join us every Wednesday night for live music without a cover charge. Check back often for updates and you can follow us on facebook too.
Upcoming shows:
6/25: Effie Burt
7/9: Shannon McNally & Garry Burnside
7/30: Effie Burt
8/13: Shannon McNally & Garry Burnside
8/27: Effie Burt
Chef Currence is heading to Atlanta to participate in The Attack Of The Killer Tomato Festival on August 8th. John’s participation along with 27 other chefs will include pairing up with a local Georgia farmer and preparing a tomato dish for an estimated 500 people. Ford Fry, owner and executive chef of JCT. Kitchen & Bar, is heading up the celebration and turning his restaurant into a tomato sanctuary that will also span the upstairs bar and outdoor courtyard area.
Chef Currence will be serving up: Roasted Mortgage-Lifter Tomato Biscuits, Crispy Big Bad Bacon Rillettes, Basil Aioli, Bluebird Farms Arugula
For a list of chefs and more information: Attack of The Killer Tomato Festival
All proceeds go to Georgia Organics
Ticket Sales are available online
Tickets are $45/person for members of Georgia Organics, $50 General Public until August 1st. After August 1st, all tickets $65.
City Grocery reopens its doors with a renovation to the bar. A beautifully constructed new tasting bar positioned in the back of the dining room assures you to have one of the best seats in the house. Pull up a barstool and sip a glass of wine while waiting for a table, or enjoy having a leisurely dinner at the bar.
Vishwesh Bhatt is heading to New Orleans to compete in The Great American Seafood Cook Off on August 7th. Now in its seventh year, it has featured many celebrity chefs as well as some up and coming, rising star chefs. The event emphasizes the importance of cooking with domestic seafood and encourages the support of American fisherman and local economies.
Vish was asked to compete after his Gold Medal win in the Mississippi Seafood Cook Off earlier this summer. With the State gold behind him, he follows John Currence’s footsteps as winner of the 2008 Great American Seafood Cook Off. Best of luck Vish!
Chef Currence will participate in a Nashville Flood Relief Benefit on Tuesday, July 13 at The Cannery in Nashville, TN. Join seven of the South’s most exciting chefs for an evening of inventive food and fine wine.
6:30 pm: Cocktail Hour
7:30 pm: Dinner. Tickets are $155 per person and are 80% tax-deductible.
To learn more: view flyer
To purchase tickets: visit the site
If dinner was not amazing enough this past Saturday night with friends at Le Bernadin, chef/owner Eric Ripert filmed a full episode of his new TV show in a Billy Reid-edition City Grocery T-shirt yesterday. There were two sightings of Big Bad Breakfast T’s at the Big Apple BBQ this weekend, but no photo evidence to support those reports.
Send us your images of people in City Grocery, Bouré, BBB, or Snackbar gear and win a free surprise. Remember, the more absurd the photo, the more absurd the surprise. Chef Ripert will receive a broken vegetable peeler (used in City Grocery kitchen) and a chance to run our fancy (but VERY old) orange juice contraption at Big Bad Breakfast! So, get those entries in soon.
City Grocery announces the addition of Pastry Chef Dwayne Ingraham to its team. Dwayne is originally from Louisiana and comes to Oxford from Las Vegas.
Dwayne is a graduate of The New England Culinary Institute. His resumé includes stints at The Ritz Carlton in Sarasota, MGM Grand and Wynn Las Vegas.
City Grocery will launch Chef Dwayne’s dessert menu on Monday, June 14th.
John’s fried chicken segment starts at 6:30 of the video.