March 24th High Cotton in Greenville will be turning two. To celebrate we will be offering many specials and prizes including free Maverick Collection membership for those in attendance.

Maverick members will also earn bonus points toward their membership just for dining.

Full details of our event can be found on our Web site.

Thank you Greenville for two great years!

Each year, we welcome guest chefs into our kitchens as part of the Dine Around celebration. This year we welcomed Chefs Jefferey Buben and RJ Cooper of the popular Vidalia and Bistro Bis restaurants in Washington, D.C. to Slightly North of Broad; and we also welcomed Chef Hugh Acheson from 5&10 Restaurant in Atlanta, Ga. to High Cotton.

The Dine Arounds are special events for us at Maverick. We welcome in friends and colleagues to cook, eat, relax, share stories and just enjoy the art of cooking. We’d like to thank everyone who not only showed up to dine, but our guests as well for being absolutely amazing.

We’d also like to thanks our sponsors: Pure Insurance Company, Sysco, Jorge Ordonez Winery & Row 11 Winery for their support to make this event happen.

As part of our participation in the Festival this year, we hosted a new event called “Festival Unwrapped” – aimed at bringing chefs and media together for relaxed and unfiltered converstaions over breakfast to kick off the first day of events.

The following photos were from Festival Unwrapped.

Jeff Dennis at LowcountryOutdoors.com, recently visited Slightly North of Broad to help raise awareness about our Fresh on the Menu with his readers. All of the MSK properties participate in the South Carolina program that pushes for restaurants to feature fresh, local ingredients on their menus.

The article comes on the heels of High Cotton being featured in Southern Living Magazine as one of its Reader’s Choice Awards for 2009.

Follow the link for the full story and keep up with Jeff’s adventures at LowcountryOutdoors.com

Join us for the 2009 BB&T Charleston Food + Wine Festival this weekend. Charleston Cooks! is sponsoring the book signing tent in the Culinary Village. Bobby Flay will be signing books after his burger demonstration on Saturday. Charleston Cooks! will donate $10 of every Bobby Flay book sold this weekend to the MUSC Children’s Hospital.

Maverick Southern Kitchens is also proud to welcome Chef Jefferey Buben and Chef RJ Cooper from Vidalia in Washington D.C.; as well as Sara Floyd, Master Sommolier of Jorge Ordonez Importers in San Francisco to our Dine Around Dinner at Slightly North of Broad.

We also welcome Chef Hugh Acheson from Five and Ten Restaurant in Athens, GA; as well as Richard de Los Rayas from Row 11 Winery in California to our Dine Around Dinner at High Cotton.

We will be blogging from events throughout the weekend. So check back with us as the weekend progresses.

Tickets are still available for some events. For a full listing of events and ticket information, log on to the BB&T Charleston Food + Wine Festival’s official site.