Tickets are now on sale here for the third annual Springer Mountain Farms Southern Wing Showdown, the favorite all-inclusive summer festival celebrating unique takes on the Southern staple on Sunday, August 5 from 2-5 pm.
Sponsored by Springer Mountain Farms and Big Green Egg and produced by Taste of Atlanta, the event will feature creative talent from over 30 prominent Southeastern chefs from Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. Local purveyor Springer Mountain Farms will provide chefs with chicken that’s 100% natural and raised without antibiotics, steroids, growth stimulants or hormones, and each chef will serve their unique recipe as they battle it out to win ‘Best Wing’ in a competition judged by festival goers and a panel of wing aficionados. Alcohol sponsors, including George Dickel, Dixie Vodka and Chattanooga Whiskey, will stir up cocktails complementing chef creations.
The festival will be held at a new, larger location: The Fairmont (1429 Fairmont Ave NW), a recently opened modern, industrial and air-conditioned indoor event venue in Atlanta’s West Midtown neighborhood.
Both general admission and VIP First Taster tickets offer attendees all-inclusive wings, side dishes, wine, beer, cocktail samples and live music from local Atlanta musician Alex Guthrie. VIP First Taster tickets allow guests to enter the event an hour early at 1pm and are $60 now through July 1. General admission tickets are $50 through July 1. Both tickets increase by $5 on July 2 and again on August 5 at the festival (if available).
Angel Flight, a volunteer pilot organization located at Atlanta’s Dekalb Peachtree airport that provides flight services to patients in need of medical-related care, will be a nonprofit beneficiary for this event and will host a silent auction on-site. The festival also supports Second Helpings Atlanta, a nonprofit food rescue organization that fights hunger and reduces food waste in the city.
PARTICIPATING CHEFS
Georgia
Savannah Sasser
The Expat (Athens)
Deandrae Kitchens
Chicken + Beer (Atlanta)
Archna Becker
Bhojanic (Atlanta)
Deborah VanTrece
Twisted Soul (Atlanta)
Jared Hall
One Flew South (Atlanta)
Jason Jimenez
Kitchen Six (Atlanta)
Christian Rodriguez
High Road Craft Ice Cream (Atlanta)
Aaron Avers
Four Forks (Atlanta)
Marc Taft
Chicken and the Egg (Atlanta)
Matthew Basford
Canoe (Atlanta)
Meg Brent
White Oak Kitchen and Cocktails (Atlanta)
Nick Leahy
Aix and Tin Tin (Atlanta)
Pat Pascarella
The White Bull (Atlanta)
Scott Smith
Local Republic (Atlanta)
Jeremy Fisher
Ladybird Grove & Mess Hall (Atlanta)
Julio Delgado
New Realm Brewing (Atlanta)
Drew Van Leuvan
Seven Lamps (Atlanta)
Danilo Q. Myers
The Southern Gentleman (Atlanta)
Thaddeus Keefe
1Kept
Christian Perez
City Pharmacy (Conyers)
South Carolina
Daniel Doyle
Poogan’s Smokehouse (Charleston)
North Carolina
Blake Hartwick
Bonterra (Charlotte)
Chris Coleman
Stoke (Charlotte)
David Quintana
Dot Dot Dot (Charlotte)
Drew Dodd
Stagioni (Charlotte)
Shai Fargian
YAFO (Charlotte)
Thomas Marlow
Mimosa Grill (Charlotte)
Alabama
Duane Nutter
Southern National (Mobile)
Tennessee
Larry Carlile
Hemingway’s Bar and Hideaway (Nashville)
B.J. Lofback
Funk Seoul Brother (Nashville)
Margot McCormack
Margot Cafe & Bar (Nashville)
Charlie Loomis
The FEED Co. Table & Tavern (Chattanooga)
Andrew Platt
Ceniza (Chattanooga)
Mississippi
Stewart Robinson
Delta Supper Club (Cleveland)
