Fire & Salt – Top Chefs 2026

Join Chef Alex Gass at Fire & Salt in Oak Ridge for Top Chefs 2025! Chef Gass has crafted a delectable menu for the evening, including a signature cocktail and array of elegant hors d'oevres, as well as:

1st Course (Appetizer):

Cured & Smoked Red Deer Backstrap

Broken Arrow Ranch, Texas, with Extraterrestrial Fungi mushrooms, roasted heirloom carrots from sugar tree curated goods, braised garlic, pommes Maxim  (thin-sliced potato slow-cooked in clarified butter), chives, volcanic sea salt, and whipped beef bone marrow crème fraîche

Wine Pairing: Syrah, Holus Bolus
Notes of black pepper, plum, and blackberry

2nd Course:

Pan-Seared Chilean Sea Bass with Lemongrass and Kaffir Lime Leaf Risotto, garlic confit cherry tomatoes, balsamic reduction, parsley, and toasted hazelnut

Wine Pairing: Borgogna, Logesis

Notes of apple, pear, and lemon

3rd Course (Dessert):

Peanut Butter Mousse with Chocolate Mirror Glaze, peanut “Star Crunch” crust (chocolate, peanut butter,hazelnut, dehydrated crêpe), cacao nib coulis, chocolate pudding, bruleed bananas, peanut sable cookie, banana mousse, and banana tuile

Wine Pairing: Tawny Port, Da Costa
Notes of dried fruit, nuts, caramel, and coffee