Georgia Grown Dinners: Holden McKinstry and Taylor Mead

About this event

Interact with 2026 Georgia Grown Chefs Holden McKinstry, Vice Steak Bar and Taylor Mead, Atlanta Botanical Garden alongside a Georgia beef producer or apple farmer as you enjoy four tasting courses with wine in the Edible Garden Outdoor Kitchen. The Edible Garden Outdoor Kitchen fosters plant-to-plate connections, provides learning opportunities in seasonal eating and sustainable cultivation, and highlights the important relationships between local chefs and growers. In keeping with this, we proudly present the Georgia Grown Dinner Series. As a unique collaboration with the Georgia Department of Agriculture, each dinner in the series is presented by a Georgia Grown Chef and focuses on one or two of Georgia’s important crops or agricultural categories. As an added bonus, each dinner features a local farmer who can explain a little more about farming in Georgia and answer your questions. Interact with the chef-grower team as you enjoy four tasting courses with wine in the Edible Garden Outdoor Kitchen. Schedule: Thursday, September 24 Time: 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. Fee: $100 (Member ($95) Instructor: Holden McKinstry, Vice Steak Bar & Taylor Mead, Atlanta Botanical Garden Member Registration NON-Member Registration About Holden McKinstry Holden was born and raised in Houston. He developed a love of food at a young age by cooking with his mom and grandmother, Adelle and Barb. Growing up in Texas, he would grow to love the art of wood-fired cooking. Whether it was low-and-slow smoked briskets at traditional Texas barbecue joints, carne asada cooked in an old oil-barrel grill on the side of the road, or peach cobbler baked in a Dutch oven over the embers of a dying campfire during his Boy Scouts days, fire and food seemed a natural connection in his mind. In 2020, Holden moved to Atlanta and began working at Bold Monk Brewing and White Oak Kitchen and Cocktails, his first true experiences in fine dining. The next year, he met chef Nick Leahy at Nick’s Westside and,…