City House
- When
- March 4, 2025
- Where
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City House
1222 4th Ave N
Nashville, TN - Tickets/Info
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City House restaurant in Nashville, TN specializes in southern-inspired, Italian comfort food with an emphasis on seasonal cooking and farm fresh ingredients. For this 90/90 dinner series event, City House is offering a delicious four-course dinner. Come let Chef Tandy and company cook for you and your friends on this special night dedicated to the one and only Jacques Pépin.
Highlights
- Collaborating Chef Margot McCormack
- One seating
- Wine parings included
- Non-alcoholic pairings available
- 4 courses
- Take home surprise
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.
Event Host
Tandy Wilson
Chef/owner, City House
It all began with cornbread, no recipe, just a story in a game of “telephone” from his mother, her mother before that and so on. These are the women in his life who cultivated Tandy Wilson’s appreciation for food at an early age, igniting the fire that has become the backbone to his “heart and soul” cooking philosophy.
While attending the University of Tennessee, Wilson landed his first restaurant job at The Orangery in Knoxville, TN. Quickly transitioning from crushing the dish pit to working on the line, he realized that his love of cooking could—and should—turn into a career. Chef Kevin Fults gifted Wilson On Cooking: A Textbook of Culinary Fundamentals, leading Wilson to seal the deal on his decision to attend culinary school.
In 2004, Wilson came back home to his roots in Nashville, TN seasoned with Italian travel and eager to advance his culinary confidence. It was while working as a sous chef for Chef/Owner Margot McCormack at Margot Café that Wilson’s dream to open his own restaurant developed. That dream came to fruition in a nineteenth century brick building that once housed the workspace for local Nashvillian artist and sculptor, Alan LeQuire. Located in historic Germantown, City House opened its doors in December 2007. It is here where Wilson showcases his love for fresh, local ingredients as often as possible while creating what he calls, “blue collar Italian” and Southern cuisine.
Wilson was a finalist for the James Beard Award “Best Chef Southeast” in 2013, 2014, 2015, taking home the award in 2016. Wilson is an avid supporter of local and national charities, such as The Nashville Food Project and No Kid Hungry. He is also on the board of the historic Nashville Farmers’ Market and a longtime member of the Southern Foodways Alliance.
Guest Chef
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.