Omnivore - Elliott Moss’ Buxton Hall Bbq is coming to Kimball House

Think of Elliott Moss as Asheville’s Jarrett Stieber, the prince of pop-ups. The acclaimed former executive chef of the Admiral — and a 2013 James Beard Award nominee for Best Chef in the Southeast — has hosted weekly pop-ups at Asheville’s MG Road this past year. In a couple of weeks he will be bringing his whole hog skills to Kimball Housee in Decatur.

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On Sun., Jan. 18, Kimball House will have a rare lunch service from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. with a local hog from Riverview Farms cooked over wood. Kimball House will take care of the accoutrements while Moss will do what he does best, bbq whole hog, as a preview to what he has in store for Asheville late this spring. Asheville is even bringing the cocktails. Moss and partners Meherwan and Molly Irani, who own both Atlanta and Asheville’s Chai Pani, have been busy renovating a former 1930’s skating rink in Ashevlille’s South Slope area for their restaurant. The forthcoming Buxton Hall will feature whole hog barbecue cooked in a pit over wood.

This past year Moss has had a standing pop-up in Asheville’s MG Road Lounge in the space below Chai Pani. Punk Wok transformed the Indian aesthetic with red lanterns, chopsticks, and loud music to accompany the bold combinations Moss is known for with Indo-Asian spices and underlying southern ingredients—dishes like hammock pho and chicken & fennel gyoza with bitters and schmaltz. Atlanta’s Angus Brown (Octopus Bar, Lusca) even teamed up with Moss at MG Road for Octo-Wok, an Asian food throw-down.

Less than two weeks after Punk Wok ended (Nov. 3), another restaurant takeover began with The Thunderbird. Six days a week the concept will co-exist within MG Road and allow the crew assembled from The Admiral to sort of relive their glory days before cooking straight up barbecue every day. Moss said of Thunderbird: “We’re just having fun.” The food harkens back to his South Carolina roots with Appalachian ingredients and “Asheville funkiness.” Even Garden and Gun took notice with this write-up.

For more information, visit www.kimball-house.com and follow along with Chef Moss on Twitter at @buxtonhall.