The Rowe Bar - St. Pete Beach, Florida

We're proud to announce the opening of The Rowe Bar in St. Pete Beach, Florida, located at the magnificent Don CeSar Hotel (or "The Pink Palace," as the locals refer the the iconic property, which was built during the Jazz Age).

The menu is 'creative coastal;' the cocktail list was developed by expert mixologist Eben Klemm, a Cornell Biology grad who began bartending soon after graduating. He's the author of The Cocktail Primer: All You Need to Know to Make the Perfect Drink. The list includes several takes on the traditional julep. Varieties include Gin (Hendrick's, St. Germain, grapefruit, arugula), Bourbon (blueberry infused Buffalo Trace, mint, black tea) and Tequila (Corazon Blanco, chartreuse, bell pepper, cilantro).

We had the pleasure of working on the brand from concept to opening.

www.therowebar.com 

Charleston Wine & Food Festival — March 2016

Festival season is upon us! The Green Olive team and clients and had a busy, fun and memorable weekend at The Charleston Wine and Food Festival.

Chef Joy Crump - FoodE + Mercantile | Fredericksburg, VA

Joy Crump's "Fire" Menu

Chef Joy Crump entertains the crowd at her Rosé & Grilling demonstration

Chicken and sweet potato dumplings from FoodE

Chef Woolery "Woody" Back - Table & Main | Roswell, GA

Dan Pernice and Chef Woody Back of Table & Main

Serving up Roasted Beets with Pickled Carrots on a Silver Dollar Hoe Cake

Chef Duane Fernandes - Isa's Bistro | Asheville, NC

Chef Duane joined us from Asheville for the "Earth" demo

Carolina Bison Carpaccio

Chef Duane's menu for EARTH

Chef Robert Phalen - One Eared Stag | Atlanta, GA

Chef Phalen cooks pork belly, white beans, cauliflower kimchi and kale at 3rd Space: Fire.

From left to right: GOM team member Henri Hollis, Chef Phalen and his wife, Allison Phalen.

Chef Phalen was assisted all weekend by his brother-in-law Lance Gummere.

Chef Matthew Basford - Canoe | Atlanta, GA

Chef Matthew and his GOM helpers at Bowen’s Island

Chef Matthew was hand-picked to cook up the St. Jude Farms Sweet Grass Mussels

Chef Eddie Hernandez - Taqueria del Sol | Atlanta, GA

Chef Eddie loves a good selfie

Taqueria Dream Team – Mike Klank, Allison Haber, Eddie Hernandez

Mike and Eddy lend a hand at the Slow Meat event at Home Team BBQ

Jonathan & Justin Fox - Fox Bros Bar-B-Q | Atlanta, GA

Homemade smoked pork sausage with cheddar and hatch chiles, topped with a spicy hatch mustard sauce, cracklins and micro cilantro on a lotus bun

Fox Bros. Bar-B-Q and Taqueria del Sol teamed up for the Toasted: Up in Smoke Finale with a pastramied short rib  taco topped with spicy Southwestern slaw – it was a crowd favorite for sure!

Don’t mess with Fox Bros!

Chef Duane Nutter - One Flew South | Atlanta, GA

Chef Duane Nutter brings his “Southernational” Cuisine to Charleston

Chef Duane’s entry for the “Air” category

Lemon soy glazed chicken with pickled veggies, crunchy noodles and sesame seeds

Tuffy Stone - Cool Smoke + Q Barbeque + A Sharper Palate + Rancho T | Richmond, VA

Chef, Pitmaster and TV personality Tuffy Stone brought his signature Cool Smoke Jambo pit to Charleston

Tuffy fired up some flatiron steak on a Cowboy Cauldron

Thanks for the help, Jason Alley! Jason and Tuffy plated almost 1000 dishes in just over an hour

Chef Todd Richards - White Oak Kitchen & Cocktails + Richards' Southern Fried | Atlanta, GA

Chef Todd prepping for his AIR demo

Smoked Springer Mountain Chicken with bourbon + ginger glaze, popped sorghum and pickled peppers

Chef Todd's menu creation for AIR

Chef Jason Alley - Comfort + Pasture | Richmond, VA

What a team! Chef Jason Alley and the folks from Swig & Swine and the National Pork Board served up a “Redneck Bo Saam” for Up in Smoke

Redneck Bo Saam — smoked pork belly, Rappahannock River oyster, seaweed mayonnaise, kim chi chow chow

Jason Alley, Josh Loge, and Tuffy Stone repping RVA

Chef Drew Van Leuvan - Seven Lamps | Atlanta, GA

Chef Drew, Madison and John ready to take on the festival

Crisp Abalone + red pepper & strawberry gazpacho

John + Chef Drew — Teamwork makes the dream work

Mike Johnson - Sugarfire Smokehouse | St. Louis, MO

Sugarfire’s smokin’ team prepping their buns. 

Chef Mike Johnson of Sugarfire Smoke House chopping up Tomahawks. 

Chef Mike Johnson’s Tomahawk Ribeyes on the Cowboy Cauldron 

Chef Zeb Stevenson - Watershed | Atlanta, GA

Chef Zeb getting his Gospel Brunch on

A nice dollop of Banner Butter on Chef Zeb's French Toast

Chef Zeb's menu for the Gospel Brunch

Congratulations to Jason Alley!

A huge and heartfelt congratulations to our good friend Jason Alley today. Jason took home the Lifetime Achievement Award last night at the 2016 Elby Awards, a celebration of the Richmond dining scene, presented by Richmond Magazine.

Hailing from Appalachia, VA, Jason Alley spent his early years surrounded by the simple lifestyle of Southwest Virginia, enjoying comforting home-cooked southern food and helping out in the family kitchen. Inspired by his surroundings and family meals, cooking quickly turned into a calling for Alley. Alley began his culinary career in the kitchen of Harrisburg Country Club. Later, Alley travelled to work as a sous chef position in Illinois and later in Atlanta at the 1848 House, Blue Ridge Grill, and ENO. The ultimate career move brought Alley to Richmond, where he met his restaurant partner and eventually opened his renowned restaurants Comfort and Pasture, two of the most influential restaurants in Richmond. 

Comfort, which ranked as one of Southern Living’s Best Restaurants, is an award-winning restaurant with a refined take on comfort and soul food. Alley’s second restaurant, Pasture, has a southern-modern vibe and uses traditional Virginia ingredients on a menu of artful small plates and refreshing cocktails. Pasture also has a unique focus on local Virginia beers and wines. 

Alley is a celebrated chef in Richmond and beyond. He has represented the 2015 Chefs of the James Beard House nationwide tour, National Pork Board, and his restaurants and recipes have been featured in numerous national publications such as Food & Wine, Bon Appetit, Southern Living, Garden & Gun, New York Times, Eater, Tasting Table, and the Washington Post. Also, Alley has been repeatedly invited as Key Chef for many national festivals including, Nantucket Food & Wine Festival, Aspen Food & Wine Festival, Feast, Charleston Wine & Food Festival, and Terra Vita Festival, and has won Style Weekly’s Best Chef in Richmond four years running. In 2014, Alley represented Virginia in Chefs for Equality in Washington, DC and at the Democratic Gov’s Association Gala with No Kid Hungry in 2015.  

 We congratulate him on this well-deserved award!

We Support Shepherd's Men!

Green Olive Media is proud to take on Shepherd’s Men, a fundraising organization that supports the SHARE military initiative at Atlanta’s renowned Shepherd Center. The SHARE initiative treats recent combat veterans who may have suffered repeated concussions or other physical brain injuries – injuries that can fuel PTSD. Through the program, veterans address any physical trauma they’ve suffered as well as psychological counseling and other PTSD treatments.

Elizabeth, Jeff and many staff members have deep ties to the military, a force that guided Green Olive Media’s choice to support Shepherd’s Men in their main fundraising effort: a 1,300 mile run through 10 cities from March 26 – April 3. Each of the 14 Shepherd’s Men will help complete the total mileage of this run while wearing a 22 pound flak jacket; they will also each run at least 22 kilometers per day. The number 22 symbolizes the military veteran lives lost on a daily basis to suicide. The group will make stops in cities large and small up and down the East Coast, meeting with local veterans’ groups and introducing the SHARE initiative to civilians. The Shepherd’s Men will make stops in the following cities:

-        Boston, Massachusetts

-        Newport, Rhode Island

-        New York, New York

-        Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

-        Lynchburg, Virginia

-        Knoxville, Tennessee

-        Nashville, Tennessee

-        Chattanooga, Tennessee

-        Athens, Georgia

-        Atlanta, Georgia

If you’re a Green Olive Media client, partner or friend in one of the above cities, we hope you will join us in supporting the Shepherd’s Men as they complete their run! You can donate to the SHARE initiative and learn more about the Shepherd’s Men here.

Vital Facts:

Who: Shepherd’s Men fundraising group

What: SHARE Military Initiative at Atlanta’s Shepherd Center

When: March 26 – April 3, 2016

Where: 10 cities on the east coast

Why: To provide funds for the 100% donor-supported SHARE initiative treating combat veterans

How: Donate money to SHARE, donate event-related items to Shepherd’s Men

Needs:

-        Hotel rooms for Shepherd’s Men in above cities

-        Running shoes and gear

-        Snacks, food, supplements for runners

-        Event space in above cities

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Now Hiring: $PAID$ Interns for Spring 2016

We’re looking for candidates to fill our public relations and social media intern positions for Spring 2016. 

Special requirements: Must love food, beer and whiskey. For more details, please contact interns@greenolivemedia.com 

Jeff's Top 50 Meals And Drinks Of 2015

Every year the list gets harder to narrow down - here are the 50 best things I ate and drank in 2015, in no particular order, because there's no way I'm trying to rank this many things. I will say that Buffalo, NY was a pleasant surprise...

Kinmont - Chicago, Illinois
Fish charcuterie board

Vedge - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Roasted Maitake mushroom

 

Rudy's BBQ - San Antonio, Texas

Brisket, Shiner 

Mita Mary - Punta de Mita, Mexico
Fish, shrimp, octopus and lobster tacos

Santina - New York, NY
Blue crab spaghetti

Son Of A Gun - Los Angeles, California
Dang near everything on the menu

Seabar - Buffalo, New York
Beef-On-Weck roll (trust us, it works)

Peche - New Orleans, Louisiana
Pickled shrimp for breakfast with the Southern Foodways Alliance

Reef - Houston, Texas
Fried oysters

Au Cheval - Chicago, Illinois
Cheeseburger

Some roadside taco stand - La Cruz de Huanacaxtle, Mexico
Tacos al pastor

Fox Bros BBQ at The James Beard House - New York, NY
Smoked short rib ramen

Sam Jones BBQ - Winterville, North Carolina
Whole hog sandwich

French 75 Bar - New Orleans, Louisiana
Anything and everything that Chris Hannah pours for us

 

The Fish Fry - Nassau, Bahamas

Conch, lobster, grouper, sky juice

Wurstkuche - Denver, Colorado
Rattlesnake sausage

The Breslin - New York, NY
Ham and cheese

Gus's Fried Chicken - Atlanta, Georgia
A Memphis favorite came to Atlanta

The Continental - Miami, Florida
All the cocktails

 

Rusty's BBQ - Leeds, Alabama

Cheeseburger

The Grey - Savannah, Georgia
Crab claws

Bar Bill - East Aurora, New York
Chicken wings

Mahony's - New Orleans, Louisiana
Peacemaker po-boy

Marta - New York, NY
Carbonara pizza

 

The Farm - Park City, Utah

Fancy broccoli casserole, complete with truffles

Amaya's Taco Village - Austin, Texas
Cheese enchilada and beef taco plate

Campo's Cheesesteaks - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Cheesesteak

Lamar Lounge - Oxford, Mississippi
Econo burger

 

Pequod's Pizza - Chicago, Illinois

Sausage pizza

Krispy Kreme - Atlanta, GA
This year, we started a new tradition of grilling Krispy Kremes at our tailgates

Slyman's Restaurant - Cleveland, Ohio
Pastrami reuben

Carniceria el Tapatio - Sayulita, Mexico
Fish and shrimp tacos

Three Dots And A Dash - Chicago, Illinois
Tiki drinks

Turner Field - Atlanta, GA
Our own creation of a Braves Dog topped with Kevin Rathbun Steak

 

The Apple Pan - Los Angeles, California

Hickory burger

Chez Fonfon - Birmingham, AL
French fries

Taylor Grocery - Taylor, Mississippi
Catfish, hush puppies, fries, slaw

City House - Nashville, Tennessee
Belly ham pizza

Sushi Yasuda - New York, NY
Omakase menu

 

Hog & Hominy - Memphis, Tennessee

We just ask them to send out pizzas until we say stop

Hatchet Hall - Los Angeles, California
The 'Old Man Bar' in the back of Hatchet Hall has not only some of the city's best drinks, but quite a vinyl record selection

Provisions - Dallas, Texas
Clam pasta

Moonlite Bar-B-Q Inn - Owensboro, Kentucky
Mutton!

Nightingale 9 - Brooklyn, NY
Vietnamese Jambalaya

 

The Company Burger - New Orleans, Louisiana

Cheeseburger

Capelli's - Buffalo, New York
Spaghetti pizza

Butcher - Nashville, Tennessee
Pimento cheese

Green Olive Media Holiday Party - Atlanta, GA
Our favorite holiday tradition is having the all-you-can-eat Varsity food truck come to out end-of-the-year party

Hattie B's - Nashville, Tennessee
Hot chicken

 

Stoic & Genuine - Denver, Colorado

Chef's Creek Miyagi oysters