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06/19/2016

Ace Biscuit & Barbecue Auction

Ace Biscuit

Here is your chance to experience Ace Biscuit & Barbecue like you never have experienced it before, while helping to feed the area’s hungry. It’s The Charlottesville 29 Restaurant Auctions, presented by McGuireWoods. Along with all of the other restaurants in The Charlottesville 29, Ace Biscuit & Barbecue has created a signature experience available to whoever pledges the highest donation to The Blue Ridge Area Food Bank. Thanks to the generosity of Ace Biscuit & Barbecue, the winning bid goes directly to the food bank, and each dollar donated is enough to provide four meals to the area’s hungry. So, a winning bid of, say, $1,000 would mean not just a wonderful meal for the winner and their guests, but also 4,000 more meals for the area’s hungry.

The Ace Biscuit & Barbecue signature experience for The Charlottesville 29 Restaurant Auctions:

Dockside Country Cookout for 12

Since opening Ace Biscuit & Barbecue in 2012, Brian Ashworth has been cooking in his wheelhouse. For the auction winner and eleven guests, Ashworth will cook at his actual house – a dockside cookout by the pond of his 55 acre Barboursville farm. Ashworth loves to use his hibachi grill, and he will grill an array of chicken, pork, beef, and shrimp. Sides will be his personal favorite recipes like beans and rice, candied yams, and cornbread. To wash it all down, the auction winner will receive four cases of beer, courtesy of Champion Brewing Company. “Don’t wear high heels,” warns Ashworth of the rustic farm setting. “Grillin’ and chillin’,” he says. It’s the ultimate Dockside Country Cookout.

Note: The acution winner will schedule the dinner on a mutually convenient Monday or Tuesday for Ashworth. To best appreciate the setting, Ashworth strongly recommends an October evening.

Bidding

Bidding for the Ace Biscuit & Barbecue auction ended on July 18, 2016.

Winning Bid:  $1,000

 

 

06/18/2016

Public Fish & Oyster Auction

Public

Here is your chance to experience Public Fish & Oyster like you never have experienced it before, while helping to feed the area’s hungry. It’s The Charlottesville 29 Restaurant Auctions, presented by McGuireWoods. Along with all of the other restaurants in The Charlottesville 29, Public has created a signature experience available to whoever pledges the highest donation to The Blue Ridge Area Food Bank. Thanks to the generosity of Public, Donnie Glass, and MarieBette, the winning bid goes directly to the food bank, and each dollar donated is enough to provide four meals to the area’s hungry. So, a winning bid of, say, $1,000 would mean not just a wonderful meal for the winner and their guests, but also 4,000 more meals for the area’s hungry.

The Public signature experience for The Charlottesville 29 Restaurant Auctions:

Public Reunion Feast

For one night only, Public Fish & Oyster owner and sommelier Daniel Kaufman is reuniting with the chef who helped put Public on the map. Former Public chef Donnie Glass, who now co-owns the seafood-centric catering company Skipjack Purveyors, will return to prepare an over-the-top, multi-course meal for the auction winner and five guests in an intimate setting at MarieBette Cafe & Bakery, which is generously donating space for the dinner. Glass has been baking part-time at MarieBette and says it and Public are “cut from the same cloth – hospitality driven, detail oriented, and bringing people together for the love of food.”  The evening will begin with an array of chef-selected oysters, a signature of both Public and Skipjack Purveyors. Next, guests will enjoy a multi-course meal of “some classic Public dishes with a little white tablecloth edge to them, and a bakery-inspired dessert,” says Glass. Public’s owner Kaufman, who spent much of his career as a sommelier, will break out some of his favorite wines to pair with each course. “Bring your appetite for seafood, as well as your affinity for great wines,” says Glass. It’s a Public Reunion Feast.

Note: The winner will schedule the dinner on a mutually convenient Sunday through Thursday.

Bidding

Bidding for the Public auction ended on July 12, 2016.

Winning Bid: $2,200

06/17/2016

Maya Auction

Maya

Here is your chance to experience Maya like you never have experienced it before, while helping to feed the area’s hungry. It’s The Charlottesville 29 Restaurant Auctions, presented by McGuireWoods. Along with all of the other restaurants in The Charlottesville 29, Maya has created a signature experience available to whoever pledges the highest donation to The Blue Ridge Area Food Bank. Thanks to the generosity of Maya, the winning bid goes directly to the food bank, and each dollar donated is enough to provide four meals to the area’s hungry. So, a winning bid of, say, $2,000 would mean not just a wonderful meal for the winner and their guests, but also 8,000 more meals for the area’s hungry.

The Maya signature experience for The Charlottesville 29 Restaurant Auctions:

A Modern Jeffersonian Supper

Charlottesville’s original gourmand, Thomas Jefferson, was known for the food at his Monticello home, which statesman Daniel Webster said was “half Virginian, half French…in good taste and abundance.” Nowadays in Charlottesville, there is no better example of this blend of cuisines than Maya. Chef and co-owner Christian Kelly has a fine-dining background, having been Executive Chef at Clifton Inn when it first earned Relais & Chateaux status. For the auction winner and nine guests, Kelly will prepare a modern take on a Jeffersonian Supper. Just as Jefferson did more than 200 years ago, Kelly will apply classical French techniques and concepts to the best of Virginia’s local products.

Guests will enjoy prime seating in Maya’s upstairs dining room along the windows, where their evening will begin with a taste of two cocktails, one French and one Virginian, by award-winning bar manager Ted Norris. Next, Kelly will draw on his French classical training to create, serve, and describe to guests a multi-course meal showcasing seasonal cuisine from the Charlottesville area, all paired with wines. In true Jeffersonian style, republican principles and informality will supplant French dining etiquette. As Jefferson once told a visiting French diplomat: “I am sorry that your first impressions have been disturbed by matters of etiquette, where surely they should least have been expected to occur.” It’s a modern take on a Jeffersonian Supper, at Maya.

Note: The auction winner will schedule the meal at a mutually convenient time with the restaurant.

Bidding

Bidding for the Maya auction ended on July 16, 2016.

Winning Bid: $2,250