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Chef Gason Nelson is known across the country as one of the very best personal chefs in the business.

Chef Gason’s extraordinary culinary skills have taken him around the world to cook for those with the most discriminating tastes including Jairus Byrd, Paul Walker, Reggie Bush, Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson and many others.

Chef is three time Masters Tournament Guest Chef , receiving the 2024 Winner for Best Buffet.

He is proud to serve on the Board of Directors for Breaking The Chains Foundation, and has contributed his time and talents to several of our events and workshops. To say we are grateful is an understatement!

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Settling in Charlottesville from San diego, California and Harare, Zimbabwe, Walter launched his catering company as an undergraduate at the University of Virginia. an owner-operator, Walter is actively engaged with all aspects of planning and executing events. he works closely with the catering team to ensure each member’s individual success. in a love affair with food, drink, and entertaining, Walter dedicates his professional career to crafting your beautiful moments. walter has a B.A. in Economics from the University of Virginia. when away from work, Walter enjoys fishing and cooking with his daughters, Sophie and Calla. 

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Pearl Island Catering is the vision of Sober Pierre the Founding Member and President of Pearl Island Foods. Pearl Island Foods is a food service company that focuses on making Caribbean cuisine accessible through its café, catering and developing packaged foods brand.  

The focus of this family run business is to make the diverse flavors of the Caribbean more accessible.  We are currently doing this locally with our café and catering businesses.  We are now working on bringing to market products that our customers enjoy on a regular basis.  This will add to our current offering of pikliz (a Haitian-style coleslaw) that we currently bottle. 

We are offering more than tasty Caribbean flavors, we are offering an experience.  

Winner of TomTom Fest’s 2018 Iron Chef Competition

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Chef Mitchell Beerens has been delighting Charlottesville foodies for years.

Pen + Knife says of Lampo: “…they've crafted a dining experience so urbane and electrifying (see: lightning bolt logo) from utter simplicity. They aren’t reinventing the wheel here, they’re just bringing fresh, seasonal ingredients to the mise.”

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Local favorite and Bar Manager at Alley Light Micah LeMon will be designing The Night Out signature cocktail and mocktail. This is sure to dazzle your taste buds!