NC F&B Podcast

Hospitality industry veterans, Max Trujillo and Matthew Weiss, get behind the scenes of North Carolina's burgeoning food and beverage culture. Hear from local chefs, sommelier's, distillers, farmers, brewers and the whole lot of them in the NC F&B podcast.

"Our intention is to create a behind-the-scenes conversation between industry professionals. Whether we are speaking with an advanced level sommelier about their wine program or a chef about breaking down an entire pig, we just want the conversation to be real, unedited and honest. The food and beverage world is a unique industry, and North Carolina's food scene is growing everyday.

Take a listen. We hope to entertain, teach and inspire while offering some specific information about the NC food scene."

-Max & Matt

Episode 112 The Chef and the Padawan

Aug 30, 2018

Chef Jason Smith has been at the forefront of the Raleigh-Durham "finer" dining scene for many years. Chef Jason has never shied away from hard work or mentoring future chefs. Over the last 12 years Jason Smith has successfully opened four restaurants throughout the Triangle. In June of 2017, Chef Jason felt things were...

Episode 111 - Cooking on Tour With the Avett Brothers

Aug 23, 2018

Discover how an unfulfilled IBM engineer resuscitates a childhood music career to become an integral member of the Avett Brothers band. Then, that Avett Brothers cellist becomes a champion of the North Carolina culinary community.

Joe uses his enthusiasm, charm, humility and some of his moms native Korean cooking...

Episode 110 - Country to Cosmopolitan, downtown Cary,NC (Postmaster Restaurant)

Aug 16, 2018

Tyler Watt and Chris Lopez are crushing it in downtown Cary, North Carolina. Tyler (Owner) and Chris (Chef) opened Postmaster Restaurant and Bar in November of 2017, by doing so they essentially have linked the Triangle by taking slices out of downtown Raleigh and downtown Durham and placing them in downtown Cary....

Episode 109 - Roman Pizza with NYC Chef Nick Anderer of Maialino, Martina & Marta

Aug 9, 2018

We take our last bite of the big apple with Chef Nick Anderer, who is the Executive Chef and partner of Danny Meyers Roman triumvirate of restaurants in NYC, Mialino, Marta and Martina. Chef Nick takes us deep into Roman cooking, what it's like to run 3 restaurants simultaneously and how to rise through the ranks...

Episode 108 - The Master of Spice, Chef Floyd Cardoz

Aug 2, 2018

Floyd Cardoz is the master of spice and the Champion from Top Chef Masters season 3. Chef Cardoz invited us into his home to discuss cooking high- brow Indian Food in a NYC Fine dining restaurant versus cooking in his native Bombay, India (now called Mumbai). We chat about working for Danny Meyer, the success of Tabla...