No. 101
Herd Provisions: The Cowboy and
The Wine Lady in Charleston
The Banter
The Guys enjoy a snack and Mark tells the secret of what makes it great!
The Conversation
The Restaurant Guys are on location in Charleston, SC at Herd Provisions with owner Alec Bradford and wine director Kellie Holmes. Alec tells how he began cattle farming and grew to running a restaurant. Kellie shares how she selects wine to match the farm-to-table story of Herd Provisions and trains the staff to reflect that story.
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Alec Bradford & Kellie Holmes
Alec Bradford is the owner of Herd Provisions in Charleston, South Carolina, a farm-to-table restaurant and whole-animal butcher shop. Herd’s high quality meats are sourced directly from Alec’s very own Leaping Waters Farm in Southwest Virginia. Since 2004, Alec raises one of the oldest and rarest breeds on the planet – Ancient White Park cattle.
Kellie Holmes is a restaurant consultant who focuses on the creation, implementation and education of wine programs for individual restaurants and artisanal groceries in the Southeast and beyond.
As Herd Provisions’ Wine & Events Director, she runs the wine program for the dining room and retail shop including a wine club and tasting events, along with acting as an advisor and operations support, bringing in to play her years of experience as a general manager. She focuses on sustainability and small production and minimal intervention wines that pair well across the menu.
THE INSIDE TRACK
The Guys found the concept of having a restaurant and a wine shop familiar, but Herd’s butcher shop and cattle farming takes it even further! When you are invested in a project, it’s incredibly personal.
“ I take it very personally, but it is incredibly gratifying. The best day I ever had was the first time I sold a steak in New York at a New York restaurant. I sat down with his chef (Eric Ripert of Le Bernardin). He does a great food and of course, Eric is not well known for cooking steaks, but he took three ounces of tenderloin and some caviar, and he called it surf and turf. I think I did a backflip in my mind for sure. That was, that was one of the best days of my life,”
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