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- The Country Club, one-time destination for naked swimming, hits the big 4-0. On Thursday, July 20, 2017, 6 p.m. - 8 p.m., the Country Club is inviting the public in for complimentary cake and sparkling wine. Happy hour specials as well. Chef Chris Barbato is celebrating through August 2017 though with a $40 three-course menu. The menu includes lamb, shrimp a la plancha, panned veal, and other items that show off Barbato’s baller chef skills. Peak the full menu here. [via press release]
- Chef Isaac Toups once made dentures in his father’s dental office, according to a story on chefs’ summer jobs on Bloomberg. He credits the summer job he held growing up with teaching him that he likes working with his hands. According to Toups, “There are four of us kids. Two became dentists, and two became chefs. We always joke we are an orally fixated family.” Neil Bodenheimer, owner of Cure and Cane & Table, also dishes. He once “peddled its line of gourmet sauces by setting up tastings in grocery stores around Austin.” From that, he learned that he loved talking to strangers and trying to sell them “nonessential” things. [BLOOMBERG]
- Covington’s Ox Lot 9 chef, Jeffrey Hansell, was awarded Country Roads Magazine’s Small Town Chef's Award for 2017. The award is given to “the most creative chefs and culinary professionals operating in towns under 25,000 people, according to the magazine.” The restaurant is located in the Southern Hotel on East Boston Street in Covington. [NOLA.COM]
