Ashley Christensen Restaurants

Join Ashley at the historic Pinehurst Resort & Country Club for a special weekend of food, cooking demos, workshops and more. Ashley will be the featured chef of the resort’s ‘Chef + Maker’ culinary weekend on July 7-9, and has planned a four-course dinner highlighting the best ingredients of North Carolina. Details and tickets for […]

As food people, we can't resist a good cookbook. And it didn't take us long to figure out that Joshua McFadden's newly released cookbook, Six Seasons, was the kind of book that we would be cooking out of and turning to for years to come. Joshua is the chef at Ava Gene's in Portland, Oregon, […]

It's hard to believe it, but Poole's Diner will turn 10 years old this coming December! Coincidentally, one of our favorite restaurants in the world, City House in Nashville, also turns 10...just three days before Poole's! To celebrate these milestones, chef Ashley Christensen and Poole's chef de cuisine Jason Tomaszewski will head to New York […]

John T. Edge, director of the Southern Foodways Alliance and one of the most important voices in Southern food, is coming to Raleigh on May 30th to celebrate the release of his new book, The Potlikker Papers. He'll be joined in conversation with our very own Ashley Christensen! The event is free to attend; details […]

On June 20th, we’re honored to welcome Joshua McFadden, chef of Ava Gene’s in Portland, Oregon, to Raleigh to celebrate his new cookbook Six Seasons: A New Way With Vegetables. The indy food magazine Lucky Peach called it “the vegetable cookbook you need.” And Bon Appetit coos, “Trust me: Read this book and you’ll never […]