Interact with 2025 Georgia Grown Chef Jamie Keating, EPIC Restaurants and a Georgia peanut 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 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.
Date: Thursday, October 16
Time: 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Fee: $100 (Members $95)
Instructor: Chef Jamie Keating
About Jamie Keating
Jamie Keating is the Chef/Owner of Four Diamond AAA award-winning EPIC Restaurant Inc. located in Columbus, Georgia. EPIC is the first restaurant to ever receive this highly esteemed award in the city of Columbus, which opened in August of 2012. EPIC Restaurant was named one of THE TOP 40 RESTAURANTS IN THE UNITED STATES by GAYOT in 2016. Jamie was also named one of Georgia Trends’ Most Notable Georgians in 2020. On behalf of the Georgia Restaurant Association, Chef Jamie Keating/ EPIC Restaurant was named 2023 Restaurateur of the Year. Epic Restaurant also received the 2023/2024/2025 DiRōNA Award.
Chef Keating obtained his culinary degree from Paul Smith’s College, located in the Adirondacks of New York, and the Culinary Institute at Greystone in California. He gained international expertise through a position at Arpege, a Michelin 3 Star Restaurant in France, and studied at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris. He is a member of the 2008 ACF United States Culinary Olympic Team and triple gold medalist of the Kochunhunst, Austerlang. Chef Keating has been featured several times on the Food Network and in many culinary and national publications. He also owns and operates Signature Events by JAMIE KEATING CULINARY, a premier catering company in the southeast.
Chef Jamie Keating, CEC began his culinary career with Hyatt Hotels in Atlanta, Georgia, Hilton Head, South Carolina, and New Brunswick, New Jersey. Before opening Jamie Keating Culinary and Epic Restaurant, he was the Executive Chef at The Milliken Guest House in LaGrange, Georgia.