Chef Kevin Gillespie is loading the Gunshow kitchen chamber for June’s “Hired Guns” dinner on Sunday, June 12 and Monday, June 13. Chef Kenny Gilbert of Gilbert's Underground Kitchen in Fernandina Beach, Florida, blasts into the Glenwood Park restaurant to join Gillespie, Gunshow executive chef Joey Ward and the “kitchen dudes” (and dudettes). As Gilbert mingles with diners and shares his innovative take on tropical and traditional cuisine, guests will easily see why this seventh season “Top Chef” contestant claims fame as one of the show’s most likeable chefs. His career has taken him from Florida and Sea Island, Georgia, to Colorado, New Jersey, Spain, France and the Caribbean. Gilbert has appeared on “The Today Show,” written his own cookbook, created a line of spice blends and has cooked for the Sports Illustrated Super Bowl party and numerous celebrities. Oh, and did we mention he conquered kitchen master Bobby Flay on a recent episode of “Beat Bobby Flay”? Buy tickets via Xorbia; $95 per person (not including drinks, tax and gratuity). Hone in on them now, before this tantalizing trophy is out of sight.
Eater has sifted through hundreds of nominations for the Young Guns class of 2016 and boiled the crew down to 48 semifinalists from across the nation. Gunshow sous chef Spencer Gomez is one of the two Atlanta representatives on the list, and Gunshow executive chef Joey Ward could not be more proud of the 28-year-old Gomez. Ward describes this kitchen dude team member as a “natural leader who demonstrates the kitchen talents, skills and composure of someone twice his age.” He furthers, “Gunshow would not exist in its current level of execution without Spencer.” Eater’s annual class of Young Guns celebrates exceptional new culinary talent in the 30-and-under crowd with fewer than five years experience. Eater will announce its 2016 Eater Young Guns winners on June 28. Congratulations, Spencer! We’re pulling for you more than smoked pork at a Terminus City barbecue.
Gunshow, chef Kevin Gillespie’s nationally acclaimed Glenwood Park restaurant, concludes its 2015 "Hired Guns" series this week with another top-caliber chef at the range. Joe Kindred, chef and co-owner of namesake Kindred in Davidson, North Carolina, mans the frontline, creating his award-winning, contemporary take on Southern cuisine at Gunshow on Tuesday, November 17 and Wednesday, November 18 beginning at 6 p.m. As Gunshow carts roll by, guests can take captive dishes like lamb tartare, uni aïoli, katsuobushi with seeded toast, and chicken thighs and baked egg, crispy rice, chimichurri and hominy. The “chef’s chef,” as Gillespie calls Kindred, trained at Johnson and Wales in Charleston, South Carolina, garnered experience at well-known Chicago, San Francisco and Charlotte restaurants and was named 2013 “Chef of the Year” by Charlotte magazine -- all before opening Kindred with his wife Katy in February 2015. Flash forward, the historically minded restaurant has been named one of Bon Appétit magazine’s top 10 new restaurants of the year. Keep Kindred in your scope by calling 404-380-1886 ASAP for reservations. If you miss out, well, shoot. Get fired up for the next round of “Hired Guns” starting with a bang in February 2016.
Gunshow chef Kevin Gillespie shares his Glenwood Park restaurant’s kitchen with Greg Denton and Gabrielle Quiñónez Denton, chefs and co-owners of the renowned Portland, Oregon restaurant Ox, on Tuesday, May 26 and Wednesday, May 27. The two chefs are visiting Gunshow as part of Gillespie’s “Hired Guns” guest chef series that brings top talent from across the U.S. to the nationally acclaimed restaurant. The Dentons come armed with the arsenal of inventive fare that catapulted them on Food & Wine’s list of the Best New Chefs for 2014 and earned finalist spots for the James Beard Foundation's 2015 Best Chef Northwest recognition. Gunshow guests will be blown away by the couple’s signature Pacific Northwest style influenced by Argentinian wood-fired grilling and the culinary heritage of Spain, France and Italy. Oregonian coup? Naw. They’ll ally with Gunshow’s regularly featured menu items. Make reservations ASAP: 404-380-1886. Upcoming “Hired Guns” guest chefs are JJ Johnson of Harlem's The Cecil, August 11-12; Jean-Paul Borgeois of Blue Smoke in New York City, September 29-30; and Colby and Megan Garrelts of Rye in Kansas City, November 17-18.
The kitchen dudes (and Blake) at Gunshow have a weird habit of dressing alike without planning it. See these moments and many others captured on their Instagram account. Lots of pictures of the nightly dishes, fresh ingredients as they come in the back door, and some inside jokes to keep it fun. They take turns posting so follow them all at @gunshowatl.
