At the Wine Bar with Cru Cellars
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Food Fight Series 3: Jeff Gigante and Chef Jason Saldutti of Forbici Modern Italian
When in Rome, eat pizza. When in Tampa, eat Roman-style pizza. Jeff Gigante, well-known Co-Founder of Ciccio Restaurant Group, is opening his own restaurant in Hyde Park Village called Forbici...
Food Fight Series 2: Lee Jasper of Dr. BBQ
Not many BBQ resumes come better than Lee’s. He (and I’m not making this up) left the Texas oil fields to study real barbeque under Pitmaster Roy Perez at Kreuz...
Food Fight Series 1: Cliff Barsi, VP of Food Service & Social Enterprise, Metropolitan Ministries
“At the Wine Bar with Cru Cellars” is doing a special series on this year’s Tampa Bay Food Fight tampabayfoodfight.org. Cru Cellars is proud to host a food table and...
Cru 12: Sarah Belyeu, Wine Director and Manager of edison: food+drink lab
Jennifer, Sarah, and my umbrella Is she a cheese-maker from Brooklyn? An organic farmer from Oklahoma? A genetic preservationist from St. Augustine? Yes! A love of all things organic brought...
Cru 11: Randall Grahm, Owner/Winemaker of Bonny Doon Vineyard
Randall Grahm, a.k.a. The Rhône Ranger, is the famous wine-maker and owner of Bonny Doon Vineyard. He’s in the Vintner’s Hall of Fame and was named Wine and Spirits Professional...
Cru 10: Gregory W. Van Hoesen, Owner of City Beautiful Beverage Company
Natural Wine is on everyone’s tongue, so we reached out to an expert: Gregory W. Van Hoesen. He’s the founder of City Beautiful Beverage Company, Florida’s leading source of Natural...
Cru 9: Dave Madera, Director of Operations at Caledon Concepts
Never heard of Caledon Concepts? If you live in the Tampa Bay region, then you already know them by their restaurants: Cevíche and Rococo. When Dave joined the team, he...
Cru 8: Ryan Rugg
Ryan has a thumb in every bottle: he’s made hundreds of wines over the years for customers at a custom crush facility. But he’s also worked on estate wines from...
Cru 7: Jacqueline Smith, Assistant Wine Director of Cru Cellars
In 2014, when she was 21 years old, Jackie dove into the wine game in a big way. In just a few years she was already Assistant Wine Director of...
Cru 6: Brooke Palmer Kuhl, Director of Bern’s Winefest and Kira Jefferson, COO of Bern’s Steak House
And you thought the Golden Ticket for the Wonka Factory was hard to get. As oenophiles wrestle in the streets for tickets to this year’s Bern’s Wine Fest (just a...