These are the Charlotte chefs you’d invite into your kitchen to teach their signature dish

WE ASKED: If you could have any Charlotte chef teach you to make a meal, who would you choose?

YOU ANSWERED: And now we’re hungry.

A couple of weeks ago, we took a virtual pizza-making class from Emmy Squared owner Emily Hyland. It was so much fun that at the end of it, it got us wondering — if any Charlotte chef would be willing to come into your home to teach you to cook their signature dish, who would you choose? So we asked you.

Several of our city’s best chefs made the list of your recommendations. And while this wasn’t a contest — there was a clear winner. Can you guess who? We’ll tell you at the bottom.

In the meantime, are some of your answers. If you named the chef, so did we. If you noted the dish, we added it in parentheses:

• The 5th Street Group’s Jamie Lynch (5Church and La Belle Helene in Charlotte)

• The Batch House’s “Batchmaker” (Cris Rojas Agurcia)

• Bricktop’s (The hot fudge sauce)

• Cafe Monte and Southern Pecan’s Monte Smith

• Cajun Queen

• Chef Alyssa’s Kitchen’s Chef Alyssa Wilen

• Customshop and Flour Shop’s Trey Wilson (pasta and bread)

• Cody Suddreth (formerly of Rooster’s and Ralentissez Supper Club)

• Dish and Sweet Lew’s BBQ’s Louis Donald (Pro tip: Here’s how to make one of his dishes).

• Dressler’s (cheesecake)

• The Fig Tree’s Greg Zanitsch

• Flipside and Salmeri’s Jon Fortes

• Golden Owl Tavern (Nashville Hot Chicken Deviled Eggs)

• The Goodyear House’s Chris Coleman

• Haymaker’s William Dissen

• Kindred and milkbread’s Joe Kindred

• Leah & Louise’s Greg Collier (Leah’s Cabbage)

• Letty’s Letty Ketner (hummus nachos)

• Little Mama’s Italian Kitchen (homemade mozzarella) and Mama Ricotta’s (lasagna)

• McNinch House

• Midwood Smokehouse’s Matt Barry

• Moffett Restaurant Group’s Bruce Moffett (Bao & Broth, Barrington’s, Good Food, Stagioni)

• Noble Food and Pursuit’s Jim Noble ( Bossy Beulah’s, Copain, The Jimmy, The King’s Kitchen, Noble Smoke and Rooster’s Woodfired Kitchen)

• Nourish and Plant Joy’s Julia Simon

• Renaissance Patisserie’s Sylvain Rivet

• Supperland’s Chris Rogienski

• Yafo Kitchen’s Shai Fargian

• Yard Cooked Dishes (Stew chicken)

• Your Farms, Your Table’s Sam Diminich

Have you figured out which chef was nominated the most times?

It was Greg Collier of Leah & Louise. We totally get it. His grandma’s grits? *Chef’s kiss* We’re all in luck, too, because Uptown Yolk is on its way back — this time to a new space in South End.

Melissa Oyler

The Charlotte Observer

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