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FOUNDER / CHOCOLATE MAKER: SCOTT WITHEROW
Chocolate
ScharfFen Berger Chocolates
Buy online here.
I’m a fan. I think their nib bar is very good. There is a familiarity to their chocolates. It’s a good no-frills product.
Chocolate
Ham
I am a huge fan of Allan Benton’s Ham. Just one of the nicest men that has ever lived and what that man does with pig is just amazing. So, we’re big fans of his.
Hams
Salt
Florida Key Sea Salt
18933 Mad Bob Road, Upper Sugarloaf Key, FL 33042 (view map)
T: 305.797.4977
Beautiful crystals. Flat. Really nice texture, not too large. Super clean. It tastes like the ocean that I grew up visiting in Florida.
Florida Keys
Sea Salt
Resources
Fine Chocolate Industry Association
It’s great way to find local producers in the states. We’re a part of it and it’s really cool.
Online Chocolate Resource
Southern Foodways Alliance - Institute For The Study Of Southern Culture
The SFA documents, studies, and celebrates the diverse food cultures of the changing American South.
That’s a big thing for us. We like to stay in tune and it helps us with resources.
Southern Resource
Wine
Rotllan Torra Priorat
Available at the following retailers.
Our 75% bar with a bottle of Priorat is awesome. It’s my favorite thing in the world. The one that I prefer is called Rottlan Torra.
Spanish Red Wine
Restaurants - Nashville, TN
City House
1222 4th Ave North, Nashville, TN 37208 (view map)
T: 615.736.5838 (make a reservation)
Without question. I’ve never had a bad meal there. It’s very simply prepared, and Sundays are great. They call it Sunday Supper and that’s when you’ll find more offal.
Germantown
Italian
Prince’s Hot Chicken Shack
123 Ewing Drive, Nashville, TN 37207 (view map)
T: 615.226.9442
Awesome. Hot fried chicken, not wings. It’s a slow burn, with white bread, pickles and fried chicken the color of smoked paprika.
Talbot's Corner
American / Fried Chicken
Drinks - Coffee - Nashville, TN
Bongo Java Roasting Co.
We use their coffee in our No. 6 Coffee bar. It’s our 67% single origin Ghana chocolate and their freshly-roasted Barista Boy. They also carry our chocolates.
Coffee
Drinks - Beer - Nashville, TN
12 South Tap Room
They only have microbrews on tap and change them out regularly and always have at least one that is cast-conditioned, which is kind of rare for here.
Belmont /Hillsboro
American / Pub
Restaurants - Atlanta, GA
Abattoir
1170 Howell Mill Road, Atlanta, GA 30318 (view map)
T: 404.892.3335 (make a reservation)
I always sit at the bar and my wife has to make me stop eating and stop ordering. I know it’s cliche, but we always order fries everywhere I go and hands down, they have the best. It’s owned by the same people who own Bacchanalia, Star Provisions.
Downtown
Organic
Restaurants - London, United Kingdom
26 St John Street, London EC1M 4AY, UK (view map)
T: +44/(0)20.7251.0848 (make a reservation)
St. John is great. I was able to work in their kitchen for a few nights. It’s awesome. Their simple bone marrow would be my ‘dying meal.’
City & East
British / English
The Anchor And Hope
36 The Cut, London SE1 8LP, UK (view map)
T: +44/(0)20.7928.9898
It’s a gastropub. I love the snails and laver bread on duck fat toast. Amazing.
Southwark
British / Pub
Yazoo Brewery Company
They’re our local beer in town and we like doing stuff with them.
Nashville
Brewery
TERRAPIN BREWERY
They’re great brewers. We made a milk chocolate stout with them called Moo Hoo. It’s so stinking good! It drinks like soda. They use out roasted nibs and the shells. Really good.
Athens
Brewery
Beer
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Olive and Sinclair Chocolate Co.
Recommended By
- Chef Sean Brock (McCrady’s & Husk Restaurants)
Recommendations
Scott Witherow’s recommendations for what to eat and drink and where to eat and drink in Nashville, Atlanta, and London.
Who
Scott Witherow is the founder/owner/maker of the Southern artisan chocolates, Olive and Sinclair.
Why
After studying at Le Cordon Bleu and working in highly-regarded restaurants like Fat Duck and Nobu in London, Alinea in Chicago and Highlands Bar and Grill in Alabama, Witherow returned to Tennessee to create an artisanal bean-to-bar company, which means they source, roast and grind their own beans in-house.
February 8, 2011
Photographs courtesy of Olive And Sinclair
