Event Details

100% of ticket sales help to ensure that no kid grows up hungry.

The Best of Taste of the Nation

Hot food:

  • Upstream, marinated shrimp on cucumber and watermelon salad.
  • Mez, lobster and shrimp cake on red pepper sauce.

Cold food:

  • Firebirds Wood Fired Grill, shrimp martini on strawberry salad.
  • Gallery at Ballantyne Hotel, plum tomato with local goat cheese and pine nut/peppercorn brittle.

Table Display:

  • Central Piedmont Community College, Aztec chocolate fountain and chocolate/sugar sculpture.
  • Gallery at Ballantyne Hotel, cold appetizer presentations.

Media Highlights

Creative Loafing:Taste of the Nation: A food mecca

WSOC-TV

The Charlotte Observer

Charlotte Hospitality News