7th Annual HALL Cabernet Cookoff

This weekend Chef Nick and the Bounty Hunter team (from our Wine Bar and Smokin’ BBQ flagship restaurant in downtown Napa) participated in the 7^th Annual Hall Cabernet Cookoff at Hall Winery. What a beautiful Saturday in the valley to have a barbeque cook-off. The sun was shining, the vineyards were vibrant with color and the people were ready to eat!

Not only did the attendees get to sip on some delectable wines and tasty barbeque, but also got to support a handful of local charities. Each of the 13 chefs partnered with a local charity and competed to raise money and awareness for that cause, including:

•             Bounty Hunter Smokin’ Barbeque and Napa Humane Society
•          Brix and JDRF
•          Ca’ Momi and Do It For the Love
•          The Grill at Meadowood and Community Resources for Children
•          Harvest Table St. Helena and Boys & Girls’ Club of St. Helena
•          Intercontinental Mark Hopkins and Grace Cathedral
•          Kara’s Cupcakes and The Napa Valley Vine Trail 
•          One Market Restaurant and Collabria Care
•          Paula LeDuc and St. Helena Hospital
•          Sift Dessert Bar and Girls on the Run
•          Sacramento Experience and Food Literacy Center
•          Winery Chef’s and Cope Family Center
•          Feast Catering and Erika Van Giesen Foundation

This year, there were five celebrity judges, including Duff Goldman from The Food Network. Every chef did a fantastic job cooking up food for the event’s roughly 800 guests. Although we didn’t document everyone’s dishes we snagged a couple of pictures of our own dish in between the hustle and bustle of guests. Chef Nick and the Bounty Hunter team prepared a dish that was out of this world, Buttermilk Fried Chicken with Pickled Collard Greens and Stone Ground Grits topped with a Crystal Aioli.

We could hardly keep up with the demand, as soon as we put plates down, they were gone within seconds!

The praise that Bounty Hunter received was fantastic and multiple guests couldn’t resist and had to come back for seconds! We are very proud to say that Chef Nick and The Bounty Hunter team won awards and a glorious amount of money for our chosen charity, the Napa Humane Society. 

•          Best Food and Wine pairing: Buttermilk Fried Chicken and Hall Sauvignon Blanc
•         The People’s Choice Award + $8,500 for Napa Humane Society 

Congratulations to Chef Nick and the Bounty Hunter team, and Congratulations to the Napa Humane Society!