North Carolina Food & Beverage
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Hospitality industry veteran Max Trujillo goes behind the scenes of North Carolina's thriving food and beverage culture. On the NC F&B Podcast, you'll hear from local chefs, sommeliers, distillers, farmers, brewers, and the whole colorful cast that makes up the state's culinary scene.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Max Trujillo makes North Carolina food culture legible through frank conversations about the people, choices, and pressures behind local businesses.
NC F&B Podcast turns North Carolina food and drink into candid conversations about the work behind it. Max Trujillo interviews people running restaurants, farms, concession businesses, and beverage ventures, asking questions that move easily between a product and the decisions…
A ballpark snack becomes a travel-ball argument before you've even chosen your mustard.
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A Raleigh restaurateur turns a personal reset into grounded business talk.
Tyler Hellickson comes across as a Raleigh restaurateur who talks from experience, not theory. The discussion moves from his businesses, including Happy and Hail, into a personal reset around food, booze, and discipline, then back to how those habits shape the way he works and…
A deli-centered episode built around Giuseppe's Corner and the Glendale sandwich.
This episode follows Giuseppe's Corner in Angier, with Max joined by John Canepa, Mike Canepa, and bartender Zachariah Williams. The conversation moves through sandwiches, the speakeasy above the old town jail, and the story of how the shop ended up where it is now.
A loose local hospitality hang that stays centered on restaurant life and scene-specific banter.
The episode has the feel of a kitchen-adjacent hang, with the studio still getting back on its feet as the conversation unfolds. Max Trujillo hosts from the North Carolina Food and Beverage Podcast, Alexandra helps set up the cameras and microphones, and Anthony Rapillo joins…
A Holly Springs snack story shaped by sports talk, short hours, and the work of making something new feel natural.
Sideline Snacks is a Holly Springs food story that keeps its attention on what it takes to launch something new and keep it running, with Gio Montalbani and Max Trujillo staying close to the practical side of the work.
A Raleigh bar conversation that links olive-washed vodka and mother sauces to cocktail building.
Matt Coleman’s appearance on the North Carolina Food and Beverage Podcast keeps things close to the room. The focus stays on The Davey, which opened in December 2018 just before the pandemic, and Max Trujillo’s long-running rapport with Coleman gives the conversation an easy,…
A loose, useful beef conversation about family history, grazing, and how good meat gets made.
The episode plays like both a cattle story and a family story. Gray Shipley traces generations of cattle work, a grass first grazing approach, marbling, and the patience needed to build something like this over time.
Bourbon talk, barrel stories, messy good pours.
Bourbon reviews with memory, candor, and community.
Everyday life, thought through together.
Jillian Whitlow has a few lanes, and she has lived in all of them.
Host Max Trujillo interviews Matt Coleman, owner of The Davey bar in Raleigh, exploring his journey from high-end mixology at Fox Liquor Bar to creating a neighborhood pub.
Host Max Trujillo visits Aroma, a Sri Lankan restaurant in Raleigh that opened about 12 days before the recording, and tastes dishes cooked to order by Chef Kalpa.
Host Max Trujillo interviews Jeff Tonidandel and Jamie Brown, whose Charlotte group runs five restaurants, has three Michelin Guide recommendations, and is opening Olive Alley Deli in April.
Beau Blair, a bartender of about 10 years and now a brand ambassador, tells host Max Trujillo he is running as a Democrat in NC-6, with early voting starting February 12 and the primary on March 3.
Max Trujillo and guest host Kyle Sutton talk with Jonathan Arloskis and Billy Schrader about opening Prime Brothers Butcher Shoppe in Garner, roughly two years after the pair's November 2023 appearance.
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Max Trujillo and oyster farmer Eduardo Mera preview the Raleigh Oyster Fest, set for Saturday, November 8 from 12 to 4 p.m.
Max Trujillo recaps the fifth Bubbles and Brisket, which drew over 400 people, ran a week after a rival event called "Barbecue and Bubbles," and donated part of its proceeds to Project Skyline's Hurricane Helene rebuilding in western North Carolina.
Max Trujillo and Matthew Weiss, the original co-hosts of the NC Food and Beverage Podcast, reunite on the night of the Michelin Guide's North Carolina announcement in Greenville, South Carolina.
Chef Isaac Duque, a 27-year-old audio engineer from Broward County, Florida, describes launching his WET pop-up dinners at a Wake Forest kitchen store after a cooking class where "nobody showed up." He says WET stands for "we here eat together" and has run four monthly dinners since July 25, including a samba-themed night and an MF DOOM-themed night.
Max Trujillo hosts Sue Ellsworth, founder of the nonprofit We Power Food, and Ariana Nestor of Remedy Bitters ahead of the group's January 26 empowerment conference in Havelock, North Carolina.
Max Trujillo and Matthew Weiss react to the Michelin Guide's first North Carolina list, which gave a single star to Sam Hart and Faith Morally's The Counter in Charlotte.
Max Trujillo interviews Jessica Maurer, director of the third annual Feast of Wilmington, which runs March 28-29 with a Friday tailgate at the Starling Bar.
Max Trujillo opens the North Carolina Food and Beverage Podcast with Tail Chaser, a THC sangria, and introduces Jennifer Wilson, Ian Brown, and Casey Taylor from Nature's Relief.
Max takes the show south to Anger.
Max welcomes Tyler Hellickson back after a couple of years away.
Max opens in sports mode and sets up a chat about ballpark food.
Host Max Trujillo interviews Gray Shipley, a fifth-generation owner of Shipley Farms, discussing the farm's 150-year history, ethical cattle-raising practices, and the impact of Hurricane Helene.
Host Max Trujillo sits down with restaurateur Anthony Rapillo for a wide-ranging, personal conversation.