Silver Iocovozzi is the chef-owner of the 2x James Beard Finalist nominee Neng Jr.’s—Asheville, North Carolina’s Filipinx restaurant and a New York Times and Bon Appetit Best Restaurant. A second generation Filipinx and lifelong Southern resident, Silver’s food celebrates a deep love for Filipinx cuisine, cooking with fire, the histories and foodways of barbecue in the American South and its application globally.
Silver, a 2024 Food and Wine Best New Chef, 2024 Cult100 Honoree, 2023 Time100 Next honoree, and Esquire’s 2022 Rising Star previously held notable positions as Chef in Residence at Palm Heights in Grand Cayman and opening sous chef at Asheville’s much-lauded Buxton Hall Barbecue. Iocovozzi’s dedication to the culinary cosmos is indebted to the experience of his Filipino mother, Neneng, as a first generation immigrant landing in Parris Island, SC in 1986. The lessons taught through this lifelong connection have deeply affected his inspiration and his dedication to the diffusion of Filipinx cuisine and its heritage.
7:30 pm - 10:00 pm
