The UPPY Awards
Save the date for the 2024 UPPY Awards! Unpretentious Palate‘s fourth annual People of the Year Awards, or The UPPYs, will be held on Monday, November 4th from 6-9 p.m. at Charlotte’s historic Visulite Theatre. The annual event celebrates the best in Charlotte’s restaurant industry, from chefs and bartenders to sommeliers and general managers. Tickets are on sale now! See this year’s finalists.
Tickets include dinner from Chapter 6, specialty cocktails created by last year’s Mixologist of the Year Stefan Huebner, and an awards presentation.
Dinner Menu
Passed Items
Octopus salad
Grilled Skewers
Shrimp with olive salsa verde
Marinated chicken thigh
Lamb kefka
Eggplant with pine nut lemon relish
Entrée Station
Braised lamb with aromatic rice and herbs
Butcher’s salad with shaved steak, fresh mint, and basil, red onion, harissa
Roasted carrots with pomegranate, tahini, pistachio dukkah
Grazing Station
Prosciutto with hazelnut gremolata
Marinated olives & almonds
Verde chickpeas with sundried peppers, preserved lemons, yogurt
Confit garlic with white anchovies and calabrian chilies
Tuna crudo with salsa matcha
Dessert Station
Cheesecake
Assorted pastries
Cookies
Cocktail Menu
Mr. Brownstone
(in honor of UPPY Mixology Finalist Kyle Brown, Customshop)
Casamigos blanco, rosemary, riesling, grape fruit, smoked lime
Just In Time
(in honor of UPPY Mixology Finalist Justin Hazelton, Lorem Ipsum)
Casamigos Reposado, Tangerine, pear, hazelnuts cinnamon, lemon.
The Buck Stops Here
(in honor of UPPY Mixology Finalist Rhea Buck, Supperland)
Wild Turkey Rye, Campari, Lemon, Blended Vermouth, Sweetened Carbonated Water
Last Year’s Winner Punch
(commemorating Huebner’s 2023 win)
Wild Turkey 101, Bonal, Cardamaro, Maraschino, Orange, Black Walnut Bitters. Orange twist
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. Nominations are now closed.
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