We're headed to sunny Miami in a few weeks, and would love for you to join us! We're honored to have been asked to join the roster of one of the top food festivals in the world--the Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival, February 26-28.
Mike Lata will be at SOBE for 2 special events. For ticket info, visit http://www.sobefest.com or call 887.762.3933.
Friday, February 26 | 7:30-11 pm
Fontainebleau Hotel, Miami Beach
Chef Lata joins other top chefs from around the country for Wine Spectator'sBest of the Best gala, a night filled with delicious food and top wines of the world.
Saturday, February 27 | 11 a.m. - noon
The Betsy Hotel, Miami Beach
Mike joins celebrated chefs Daniel Boulud, Michael White, John Besh, Paul Bartolotta, & Laurent Tourondel for a panel discussion on fine dining, moderated by Esquire magazine editor Ryan D'Agostino.
On Monday, December 7th, Chef Lata is headed to NYC to cook a Southern dinner in the kitchen at Aldea, George Mendes’ restaurant. This is part of a kitchen swap between the two chefs, for which George will travel to Charleston on Sunday, January 24th to cook a Portuguese meal in FIG’s kitchen. If you are in New York, we hope you will join us!
We're excited to be hosting our good friend Chris Hastings for a very special dinner on Sunday, November 22. Chris, a James Beard award nominee and chef/owner of Hot & Hot Fish Club in Birmingham, has a new cookbook out, "The Hot & Hot Fish Club Cookbook: A Celebration of Food, Family, & Traditions," and will be cooking a 4-course, prix-fixe menu from the book for the dinner. We hope you will join us to welcome our friend and fellow chef to Charleston!
Hot & Hot Fish Club Dinner with Chef Chris Hastings
Sunday, November 22, 6 p.m.
FIG Restaurant, 232 Meeting Street
Tickets: $100 includes dinner & signed copy of the book; $75 dinner only*
We had the honor this past Sunday of taking part in the first annual Lowcountry Field Feast, a farm fieldtrip and dinner to benefit Lowcountry Local First.
Last night, we hosted a few of the cast members and producers from the show Army Wives, which is filmed in Charleston and airs on Lifetime. Actors Brigid Brannagh, who plays Pamela Moran on the show, and Brian McNamara, who plays Michael Holden, were here filming behind-the-scenes footage for the Season 3 DVD, which comes out next summer. Both Brigid and Brian had been in several times before and tell us they love FIG, so it was fun to have them. Mike and server Sam gave them the royal treatment--they devoured the Tomato Tart-Tatin, Cucumber Soup, Pig's Trotters, Snapper and bar whiz Mike Ward's Blackberry Mojitos. I don't think any of us were scouted to move to LA and get into the film biz, but it was cool to have them nonetheless. Be sure to check us out on DVD next June!
We wanted to let you know about two cool off-site events we're supporting this month. The first is a benefit dinner for Share Our Strengh at McCrady's on Tuesday, July 14. The second is a special guest chef dinner at the Ocean Room on Kiawah on Thursday, July 16.
