Fork & Hammer

Jeff and Jamie face one of the toughest calls in the business - knowing when to let go. The story of closing their first restaurant and starting fresh unfolds as they head to Atlanta to help Jamie’s brother open his own. As they share hard-won lessons, see those insights come to life across their five very different restaurants.

A new high-rise threatens a 120-year-old grocery store - one of South End’s oldest. Jeff and Jamie step in to save it, planning to move the entire building next to their sixth restaurant, still under construction. If it survives the journey, it will become their seventh. But moving a fragile, historic structure? That’s a whole new kind of risk.

This episode celebrates pairings—a core value at Jeff and Jamie’s restaurants. Food with beer, wine, and cocktails. Jeff is Charlotte’s first certified cicerone. The team includes a top sommelier and arguably the nation’s best mixologist. Pairings go further: Jamie and her identical twin, plus multiple couples working in the organization.

The first restaurant that hits big for Jeff and Jamie is Haberdish. It’s their fourth place in Charlotte’s funky NoDa neighborhood. The concept: southern kitchen and craft cocktail bar. Its calling card: fried chicken. The team decides to celebrate its specialty by hosting an event called, “Fried Chicken Around the World.” Haberdish’s chef boasts, “You think you know fried chicken? You don’t.”

The family heads to Spain and meets Jamie’s sister Tracy. They seek inspiration for appetizers, entrees, wines and desserts. The journey begins in the Rioja region with stops in cities, hill towns, and a winery that houses its barrels and bottles in a cave. Then it’s over to the spectacular coastal town of San Sebastian, a culinary mecca with the world’s most Michelin star restaurants per capita.

The idea: bring the restaurant group’s top chefs together to create an event that celebrates the summer harvest and pushes the team’s creative abilities in food, wine and cocktails. It will be called the Summer Soirée. What could possibly go wrong? Well… Multiple chefs, working in new restaurants, serving several courses, to a large group of people at the same time. It is a massive challenge!

Supperland restaurant is Jeff and Jamie’s boldest restaurant: grand, acclaimed – a huge breakthrough. But its creation was pure chaos: Covid closures, firings and a menu built on a backyard patio. At the center of the storm were two unlikely heroes, an executive chef and sous chef, who share nothing in common but a deep love of food and a drive to make something unforgettable.

Jeff and Jamie work on their 6th restaurant. Tastings, staffing, design choices and massive restoration unfold beneath an aging roof on the verge of collapse. There is also mounting pressure of anticipation that comes when your last restaurant earns national recognition. As the teams works years past deadline, the couple reflects on where it all began…with a street crepe in Paris 16 years ago.