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    The UPPY Awards

    Thank you to everyone who joined us at the 2025 UPPY Awards! The event took place at Charlotte’s historic Visulite Theatre on Monday, November 10th. Unpretentious Palate‘s fifth annual People of the Year Awards, or The UPPYs, celebrated the best in Charlotte’s restaurant industry, from chefs and bartenders to sommeliers and general managers.

    See our recap of the event and meet this year’s winners here.

    To choose the finalists, we lean on some of the city’s most food-educated and seasoned diners, UP members, to help select our finalists via nominations. This prevents someone from being named a winner solely based on the quality of their PR team or social media following.

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