{"id":75859,"date":"2019-05-08T19:16:01","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T01:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=75859"},"modified":"2019-05-08T19:40:26","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T01:40:26","slug":"oxfords-very-own-vishwesh-bhatt-wins-james-beard-award-will-be-featured-at-the-bourbon-festival-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/oxfords-very-own-vishwesh-bhatt-wins-james-beard-award-will-be-featured-at-the-bourbon-festival-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford\u2019s Very Own Vishwesh Bhatt Wins James Beard Award for &#8220;Best Chef: South&#8221;, Will Be Featured at the Bourbon Festival &#038; Auction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Oxford\u2019s very own, <strong>Chef&nbsp;Vishwesh Bhatt&nbsp;<\/strong>was named the&nbsp;<strong>Best Chef South<\/strong>&nbsp;at the&nbsp;<strong>James Beard Awards&nbsp;<\/strong>Monday night, May 6, in Chicago<strong>.<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following his award winning night,\u00a0Vishwesh Bhatt\u00a0and award winning chef,\u00a0<strong>John Currence<\/strong>\u00a0will host the annual\u00a0<strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/the-oxford-bourbon-festival-auction-2019-tickets-56708008179\" target=\"_blank\">Oxford Bourbon Festival and Auction<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0held to benefit\u00a0<strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/moveonupms.org\/bourbon-fest\/\" target=\"_blank\">Move On Up Mississippi<\/a><\/strong>, a nonprofit dedicated to funding educational youth initiatives focused on health, well being, and physical activity. The festival will be held <strong>May 24\u201325<sup>\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>for a weekend celebrating all things bourbon, with tastings, concerts, and dinner followed by a rare and antique bourbon auction at the south end zone field house of <strong>Vaught Hemingway Stadium<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/2019-05-08-Bourbon-Fest-1.jpg?resize=620%2C349\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-75870\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Friday Evening, May 24<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Bourbon tasting tour in historic Oxford homes<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Friday Night, May 24<sup>t<\/sup><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Concert featuring Grammy nominated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chawaband.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Cha Wa<\/a>&nbsp;at The Lyric Theater<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Saturday Evening, May 25<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Rare &amp; Antique Bourbon Auction and dinner by guest chef Vishwesh Bhatt at the south end zone field house of Vaught Hemingway Stadium.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2019 James Beard Foundation&#8217;s Best Chef South<\/strong> and <strong><em>Southern Living<\/em><\/strong> <strong>Southerner of the Year<\/strong>, Vishwesh Bhatt joined <strong>City Grocery<\/strong> in 1997.<br>Under the tutelage of Chef John Currence, Bhatt began working as a line cook. After a brief hiatus to earn a culinary degree from <strong>Johnson &amp; Wales University<\/strong>, Vishwesh returned to CGRG as Catering Chef in 2002.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2009 Chef Bhatt opened CGRG&#8217;s <strong>SNACKBAR<\/strong>, where using his years of culinary experience and exposure to worldwide cultures he has created a menu that intertwines Southern and subcontinental foodways. His work earned him a <strong>People&#8217;s Best New Chef<\/strong> nomination from <strong><em>Food &amp; Wine<\/em><\/strong> in 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SNACKBAR has been recognized by local and national media as one of the finest restaurants in the South.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vishwesh resides in Oxford with his wife Teresa and their pets Tula and Bitbit.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oxford\u2019s very own, Chef&nbsp;Vishwesh Bhatt&nbsp;was named the&nbsp;Best Chef South&nbsp;at the&nbsp;James Beard Awards&nbsp;Monday night, May 6, in Chicago.&nbsp; Following<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":75867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[14440,2026,14441,1078,7847,11743,14442,4317],"class_list":["post-75859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-food","tag-best-chef-south","tag-bourbon","tag-james-beard-awards","tag-john-currence","tag-move-on-up-mississippi","tag-oxford-bourbon-festival-auction","tag-tastings","tag-vishwesh-bhatt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Vish-Award-1.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}