Chef and Restaurant Benefit Dinners

Margot Cafe & Bar

When
January 15, 2025
Where
Margot Cafe & Bar 1017 Woodland St
Nashville, TN

Margot Café & Bar is a French inspired restaurant with southern influences located in Five Points in the heart of East Nashville, just five minutes from downtown. The menu changes daily and focuses on locally sourced products, seasonal ingredients, freshness and simplicity. This special 90/90 event will feature a lunch menu full of Jacques Pépin classics with a signature Margot Cafe & Bar twist.

Highlights

  • Chef/owner Margot McCormack and Executive Chef Hadley Long will be in the kitchen
  • Menu reflects local and seasonal products from our local farm partners
  • Wine and cocktail specials will be available to pair with your meal
  • Margot McCormack is a three-time James Beard Award semi-finalist
  • Margot Cafe has been featured in numerous local, regional and national publications and has won many awards in the restaurant’s 23 years

Details

  • Proceeds will support the Jacques Pépin Foundation. Your ticket purchase helps transform lives through culinary education, and we deeply appreciate your generous support.
  • Jacques Pépin proudly supports our 90/90 Celebrations. While he can’t be present at all of them, we invite you to check our website for details on the events where he will joining in celebration.
  • Special event is from 11am-2pm. Please contact Margot Cafe & Bar for more information.

Event Host

Margot McCormack

Margot McCormack

Chef/owner, Margot Cafe & Bar

Margot grew up in Nashville, where she learned to cook alongside her mother. After studying creative writing at the University of Tennessee, she took her first restaurant job at Bennigan’s to support herself. Returning to Nashville after graduation, she began working in the kitchen at Faison’s, where owner Jody Faison encouraged her creativity and introduced her to influential chefs, including Alice Waters. Inspired, Margot trained at the Culinary Institute of America and moved to New York, becoming chef at Danal, a European café where she honed her rustic, seasonal cooking style and gained a dedicated following.

Margot returned to Nashville in 1996 as head chef of F. Scott’s, quickly making a name for herself. In 2001, she opened Margot Café & Bar, which received national recognition. Her style is rooted in French and Southern influences, focusing on seasonal ingredients and simple, bold flavors. Margot lives in East Nashville with her wife Heather, their son Jacob, and their dogs.