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TOMORROWWORLD ANNOUNCES FIRST CHEF PARTNERSHIP WITH TOP
CHEF FINALIST KEVIN GILLESPIE FOR EXCLUSIVE “TOMORROW’S TABLE” DINING EXPERIENCE
Offerings
include festival’s first sit-down restaurant featuring hybrid menus from
Gillespie’s hit Atlanta restaurants, takeout concept, and intimate 10-course
VIP dinner
ATLANTA (July 30, 2015) – TomorrowWorld—America’s largest 21+ music festival—announced
its first chef partnership in conjunction with Red Beard Restaurants, the group
created and owned by one of Atlanta’s hottest chefs, celebrated author and Top Chef finalist, Kevin Gillespie. The partnership will serve up an assortment of exclusive
dining experiences headlined under Tomorrow’s Table to festivalgoers
this September 25-27 in Chattahoochee Hills, GA.
Tomorrow’s Table
will focus on three key elements throughout the weekend:
- The music festival’s first sit-down restaurant experience, which
will overlook the Main Stage and feature a new, fresh seasonal menu per
day themed to one of Gillespie’s marquee restaurant concepts (traditional
whole-hog barbecue Terminus City,
award-winning restaurant Gunshow,
and his newest Southern upscale eatery, Revival);
- A similarly-themed takeaway picnic basket service
- And an intimate, seated 10-course dinner cooked and served by
Gillespie and friends on Saturday night of the festival.
“Music and food
together are a natural fit,” said Chef Kevin Gillespie. “They both serve to
enliven your spirit and bring people together in communion. Our team could not
be more excited about being a part of such a wonderful event.”
“We pride ourselves
on bringing together tastes from around the globe to the TomorrowWorld
experience,” said Jamie Reilly, project director of TomorrowWorld. “Showcasing local
flavor is a huge part of that, so partnering with Chef Kevin Gillespie and Red
Beard Restaurants was a natural fit for expanding TomorrowWorld’s food
offerings.”
Tomorrow’s Table sample
menus for the sit-down restaurant and takeaway picnic baskets follow.
Terminus City Friday: featuring traditional Southern BBQ
Chopped whole hog
BBQ
Pulled BBQ chicken
Smoked Mushroom
“BBQ” with Alabama White BBQ Sauce (Vegetarian)
Sides
Brunswick Stew
Shaker Style
Coleslaw
Heritage Baked
Beans
Southern Revival
Potato Salad
Gunshow Saturday: a culinary journey of tastes and flavors
from throughout the world.
Featuring dishes
inspired by regional America, Southeast Asia, Northern Europe, Central America
and more
Revival Sunday: traditional style Sunday supper
Revival Fried
Chicken
Grass-Fed Beef and
Pork Meatloaf wrapped in Bacon
Mushroom and Farro
Cabbage Dumpling (Vegetarian)
Trimmings
Fried Silver Corn
Smoked Local Greens
Creamed Potatoes
Field Peas and
Butterbeans in Sweet Cream Butter and Dill
Beyond the sit-down
experience (reservations required), takeaway picnic basket service will be
provided each day, with baskets based on each menu’s theme. Chef Gillespie will
also cook and host an intimate, seated 10-course VIP dinner inside the
restaurant overlooking the Main Stage on Saturday, Sept. 26th.
To make sitdown
reservations for Tomorrow’s Table and the VIP dinner with Chef Gillespie,
including press ticket inquiry, visit and stay tuned to tomorrowworld.com/chefkevin.
More information will become available shortly.
TomorrowWorld
places a huge emphasis on the culinary experience, with the festival’s full
slate of food offerings to be announced shortly. Cuisine will be inspired from
around the globe and feature Southern BBQ, Italian, sushi, Mexican offerings,
an Australian bakery, a dedicated health-foods focus (e.g. green juices,
smoothies and salads), and even a Belgian corner with Belgian waffles, fries, meatballs
and a full-scale Belgian Beer Café. Earlier this year, TomorrowWorld also
introduced Breakfast Beats, where guests can enjoy morning cocktails and
breakfast in the festival’s popup camping city DreamVille while a different DJ performs
each morning.
The third chapter of
the festival, coined ‘The Key To Happiness,’ will take place September 25-27 on 8,000
acres of rolling hills and lush woodlands outside of Atlanta in Chattahoochee
Hills, GA.
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Notes for editors:
A press photo of Chef Kevin Gillespie can be found
here (Credit: Andrew Thomas Lee): https://www.dropbox.com/s/rrrgyet0v009509/gunshow_portraits_color_0014.jpg?dl=0
The press credential application for TomorrowWorld
2015 is now available here: http://bit.ly/1fKnjdw
The
TomorrowWorld 2014 aftermovie can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIVRWl9qgtA
For
tickets and additional information on TomorrowWorld, please visit www.tomorrowworld.com or follow us on Facebook or Twitter (@TomorrowWorld).
About TomorrowWorld
TomorrowWorld is an
annual 3-day music festival (and 5-day camping experience) nestled within 8,000
acres in Chattahoochee Hills (Atlanta), Georgia. Sister to the renowned
Tomorrowland festival held in Boom, Belgium, the third incarnation of the
international music phenomenon known for mind-blowing décor across 9 stages,
massive artist line-ups, and luxury camping experiences, will be held on
September 25th, 26th and 27th. As the largest 21-plus music festival in the
world, TomorrowWorld welcomed 160,000 visitors from 75 different countries
through its doors and contributed $94 million of economic activity to the
Atlanta area in 2014. TomorrowWorld invites guests to discover ‘The Key To
Happiness’ this coming September.
About Chef Kevin Gillespie
Chef Kevin Gillespie's true passion lies in incorporating fresh,
organic and sustainable ingredients in all of his dishes. After graduating with
honors from the Art Institute of Atlanta, the Georgia native worked in top
restaurants in Atlanta and Oregon before opening his first restaurant, Gunshow,
in May 2013. In July 2015, Gillespie opened his second restaurant, Revival, in
Decatur, Georgia, which is a fresh take on the traditional, family-style Sunday
dinner, with a focus on farm-raised and artisan-prepared ingredients. Gillespie
was one of the three finalists on the sixth season of Bravo’s“Top Chef”
and was voted “fan favorite.” He was named a 2015 semi-finalist for the James
Beard Foundation’s Best Chef: South award and had been a semi-finalist for the
Rising Star Chef of the Year award for three consecutive years, nominated
for Food & Wine’s People’s Best New Chef and named Forbes’
30 Under 30 for his outstanding accomplishments in the restaurant industry. As
a rising young culinary star who was bringing more than just good food to the
table, Gillespie was named one of Mother Nature Network’s top “40 Chefs Under
40” in November 2009 for linking farms to forks and promoting better health for
people and the planet. In February 2010, he was honored as one of Gayot.com’s
“Top Five Rising Chefs.” In 2014, Gunshow earned the seventh spot on GQ magazine’s
list of “12 Most Outstanding Restaurants” and was honored as one of 12
restaurants on Esquire magazine’s “Best New Restaurants of 2014”
list. Gillespie released Pure Pork Awesomeness: Totally Cookable
Recipes from Around the World in March 2015, a follow-up cookbook
to Fire in My Belly, which was selected as a James Beard Award
Finalist. Gillespie is a member of Slow Food Atlanta, Southern Foodways
Alliance, Chefs Collaborative, Community Farmers Markets Chefs Advisory Board,
Georgia Organics and the Society for the Preservation of Traditional Southern
Barbecue. For more information, please visit chefkevingillespie.com.
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